Invasion of France (1795)
The Invasion of France in 1795 or the Battle of Quiberon was a major landing on the Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July. It aimed to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy. The invasion failed; it had a major negative impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the royalist cause.
Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon, by Paul-Émile Boutigny
Combat de Quiberon en 1795, painting by Jean Sorieul
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 the French Revolution. It played out in three phases and lasted from spring 1794 to 1800.
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 battle of Quiberon Un épisode de l'affaire de Quiberon (An Episode of the Quiberon affair), painting by Paul-Émile Boutigny, 19th century.