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Lecture – Playing with Fire: From American Revolutionaries to French Revolution
June 11, 2019 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
The upheaval and violence of the French Revolution threatened the lives of aristocratic officers of the Revolutionary War and colored their memories of the revolution in America. Julia Osman, associate professor of history and director of the Institute for the Humanities at Mississippi State University as well as our 2009 Tyree-Lamb Fellow, discusses her work exploring the impact of the American Revolution on the French officers who commanded it, the French soldiers who fought it and the French civilians who supported it.
The lecture will last approximately 45 minutes.
About the Speaker
Julia Osman is an associate professor of history and director of the Institute for the Humanities at Mississippi State University. In 2009 she was awarded the Society of the Cincinnati Tyree-Lamb Fellowship to research the changes in the French Army from 1662 to 1790 and the development of the French construction of the notion of the citoyen armée.