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Louis Fauche-Borel (12 April 1762 – 4 September 1829) was a French counter-revolutionary and member of the Royalist movement during the French Revolution and First French Empire. He was born and died in Neuchâtel.
The War in the Vendée (French: Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolutionary insurrection that took place in the Vendée region of France from 1793 to 1796, during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the river Loire in western France.
The War in the Vendée was a royalist uprising against revolutionary France in 1793–1796.. A counter-revolutionary or an anti-revolutionary is anyone who opposes or resists a revolution, particularly one who acts after a revolution has occurred, in order to try to overturn it or reverse its course, in full or in part.
This category includes French politicians and intellectuals and other foreign people tied with French affairs who opposed themselves to the 1789 French Revolution and worked in favor of a "Restoration" of the Ancien Régime, including after the "Bourbon Restoration" (1815–1830).
Jean-Clément Martin was a pupil of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.From 2000 to 2008 he was the director of the Institute for the history of the French Revolution, a center of academic research and teaching, connected to Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
Although the Machecoul massacre, and others that followed it, are often viewed (variously) as a royalist revolt, or a counter-revolution, twenty-first century historians generally agree that Vendée revolt was a complicated popular event brought on by anti-clericalism of the Revolution, mass conscription, and Jacobin anti-federalism. In the ...
The Revolutionary Tribunal was fully re-established in October at a time of crisis in the new French Republic. The War of the First Coalition was going badly. [22]: 325 An unsatisfied Dumouriez wanted to restore a (constitutional) monarchy and reintroduce the French Constitution of 1791. The provisional government responded by taking a number ...
The Chouannerie (French pronunciation: ⓘ; from the Chouan brothers, two of its leaders) 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.