| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Middle East and Northern Africa

Christian Windler La diplomatie comme experiénce de l'autre: Consuls français au Maghreb (1700–1840). (Bibliothèque des lumières: Anciennement "Travaux d'histoire éthico-politique," number 60.) Geneva: Librairie Droz. 2002. Pp. 633.

Jacques-Philippe Devoize embarked on a diplomatic career in 1776 when he arrived in Tunis as vice-consul of France, a post he held until 1781. He returned to Tunisia a decade later, initially as chargé d'affaires and then as consul general. Ousted by the Committee of Public Safety in 1796, he resumed his post in the following year and remained in it for the next twelve. He stayed in France from 1809 until 1815 but again took charge of the Tunis consulate between 1815 and 1819. In that year, at the age of seventy-four, he retired to Voiron, the village of his birth. The diplomatic and personal correspondence Devoize generated during his almost quarter-century of living and working in North Africa—much of it devoted to observations about the Other—provides the raw material for the cultural and social history in which Christian Windler grounds his analysis of Franco-Tunisian diplomacy. . . .

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