A window onto the day-to-day running of the nazione Gozitana

Abstract

A decade ago the Island of Gozo commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the end of the Knights鈥� rule, the eventful stay of the French and the eventual establishment of the short-lived Nazione Gozitana. The ad hoc commemorations organising Committee within the then Parliamentary Secretariat for Gozo supported a number of initiatives including the publication of two monographs on the French stay in Gozo by Dr. Joe De Bono and Mgr. Dr. Joseph Bezzina respectively, in which a comprehensive overview of the French occupation between 10th June and 28th October 1798 is provided. Another published source of great merit is Carmel Testa鈥檚 voluminous work 鈥淭he French in Malta鈥�.