War, Demobilization and Memory: The Legacy of War in the Era of Atlantic Revolutions by Alan Forrest Karen Hagemann & Michael Rowe

Author:Alan Forrest, Karen Hagemann & Michael Rowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781137406507
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Resentment was compounded by the scale of smuggling in the eastern provinces during the Continental Blockade, especially in Alsace. The leading defender of transit at the Chamber of Deputies, Jean-Charles Magnier-Grandprez, was a former customs inspector whose vast personal wealth was rumoured to originate from his involvement in the Alsatian contraband trade.19 Jean-Georges Humann, a delegate of the Strasbourg chamber of commerce in Paris, reported back to Strasbourg that ‘Monsieur Grandprez … harms our interests more than he serves them’, because he was ‘so notorious for having been a smuggler that his name has become proverbial’, and that his support lent credence to the claims of their opponents that the campaign for transit was really intended to facilitate smuggling.20 Royalists viewed the Alsatian campaign for transit as an attempt by revolutionary parvenus to consolidate their new wealth at the expense of honourable maritime merchant houses. For that reason, on 27 March 1818 ‘the entire right [royalist] side of the assembly stood up in order to reject transit’, and the ban on the importation of colonial goods by land borders was not lifted until after the 1830 Revolution.21

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