Exile in Hamburg after 1789
In the 25 years following the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille in 1789, up to 10,000 migrants of French origin stayed in Hamburg.
In the 25 years following the French Revolution and the storming of the Bastille in 1789, up to 10,000 migrants of French origin stayed in Hamburg.
in Hamburg. Many had left their homeland because of the political events. Soon after Napoleon declared the revolution over in 1799, most of them returned, the last of them at the end of Napoleon’s occupation of north-west Germany (1806-1814). The historian Helmut Stubbe da Luz categorises this exile politically and introduces some of the people involved.
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