L'Émigré

A series of letters by an émigré offers personal accounts of displacement during the French Revolution, blending intimate domestic scenes, chance encounters, and political observation. The correspondents describe flights from danger, hospitality received abroad, romantic and familial attachments, and vivid everyday episodes that reveal fear, humor, and resilience. Interspersed reflections comment on the shifting balance between violence and moderation in wartime, while the epistolary form pairs narrative anecdotes with moral and emotional responses to exile.