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
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
The invasion of France Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon (An Episode of the Quiberon affair), painting by Paul-Émile Boutigny, 19th century.
The Federalist revolts were uprisings that broke out in various parts of France in the summer of 1793, during the French Revolution. They were prompted by resentments in France's provincial cities abo
Arrest of the Girondins in the Convention on 2 June 1793
Jérôme Petion de Villeneuve, Federalist leader
Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne, Federalist leader