%0 Journal Article
%T Deux Hollandaises ¨¤ Tr¨¦voux (1788-1797) : voyage d¡¯agr¨¦ment ou engagement politique ?
%A Myriam Everard
%J Genre & Histoire
%D 2012
%I Association Mn¨¦mosyne
%X Cet article est consacr¨¦ au ¡®voyage r¨¦volutionnaire¡¯ d¡¯Elisabeth Wolff, n¨¦e Bekker (1738-1804) et de son amie et compagne, Agatha Deken (1741-1804). Les deux femmes, ¨¦crivains n¨¦erlandaises et patriotes, qui, apr¨¨s l¡¯¨¦chec de la r¨¦volution patriote des Provinces-Unies, se r¨¦fugi¨¨rent en France en 1788, o¨´ elles pass¨¨rent plus de neuf ans en exil politique dans la petite ville de Tr¨¦voux. Leurs lettres et publications et ¨¦galement des documents d¡¯archives t¨¦moignent clairement de leur engagement r¨¦volutionnaire personnel. Faute de documents explicites, seuls apparaissent les contours des r¨¦seaux politiques transnationaux dans lesquels elles ¨¦voluaient. La proclamation de la R¨¦publique batave de 1795 leur inspira un po¨¨me enthousiaste, mais c¡¯est seulement ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦poque du coup d¡¯¨¦tat radical de janvier 1798 qu¡¯elles d¨¦cid¨¨rent de rentrer dans leur patrie. Aussit t arriv¨¦es, elles s¡¯¨¦tablirent au centre du pouvoir et mirent leurs ¨¦crits au service du nouveau r¨¦gime. Cet engagement inconditionnel montre bien que leurs ann¨¦es d¡¯exil en France n¡¯avaient pas diminu¨¦ leur activisme r¨¦volutionnaire, mais l¡¯avaient bel et bien accru. Toutes deux ¨¦taient devenues des citoyennes ¨¤ part enti¨¨re. This article focuses on the ¡®revolutionary voyage¡¯ of Elizabeth Wolff, n¨¦e Bekker (1738-1804) and her friend and companion Agatha Deken (1741-1804). These two Dutch women writers and patriots emigrated to France in 1788 shortly after the failure of the Dutch Patriot Revolution and spent their nine years of political exile in the little town of Tr¨¦voux. Their letters and publications as well as local archives show their personal involvement in the French Revolution and suggest the existence of a transnational political network along Protestant lines to which they belonged. The proclamation of the Batavian Republic in 1795 inspired them to write a jubilant poem, but they only returned home a few months before the radical coup of January 1798. They immediately settled in the capital of the Republic, The Hague, and placed their pens at the service of the new regime. This unconditional commitment testifies that their years of exile in France had not lessened their political activism, but on the contrary had enhanced it, thus demonstrating a revolutionary citizenship irrespective of sex.
%K France
%K Travel
%K Women
%K Netherlands
%K Patriot Revolution
%K French Revolution
%K Batavian Republic
%K Political exile
%K XVIIIe century
%K R¨¦volution fran aise
%K France
%K XVIIIe si¨¨cle
%K Voyage
%K Pays-Bas
%K R¨¦volution des patriotes
%K R¨¦publique batave
%K Exil politique
%U http://genrehistoire.revues.org/1427