Catholic and Royal Armies
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The Catholic and Royal Armies is the name given to the royalist armies in western France composed of insurgents during the War in the Vendée and the Chouannerie, who opposed the French Revolution, and
Chouan emblem
Portrait of Henri de la Rochejaquelein by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, 1816
Jacques Cathelineau
Charles de Bonchamps
Chouannerie
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The Chouannerie was a royalist uprising or counter-revolution in twelve of the western départements of France, particularly in the provinces of Brittany and Maine, against the First Republic during th
Catholic and Royal Armies
…Armées catholiques et royales) is the name given to the royalist armies in western France composed of insurgents during the War in the Vendée and the Chouannerie, who opposed the French Revolution, and later both the French Empire and the July Monarchy. The Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée was composed of the…
The defence of Rochefort-en-Terre, painting by Alexandre Bloch, 1885
An episode of the Chouannerie, painting by Jules Girardet, 19th century.
Up to 6,000 peasants hostile to conscription swept into the town of La Roche-Bernard in Brittany on 15 March 1793
Chouans hiding behind a dolmen