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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.
Joseph-Geneviève, comte de Puisaye (6 March 1755 – 13 September 1827) was a minor French nobleman who fought as a counter-revolutionary during the French Revolution, leading two unsuccessful invasions from England.
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.
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 French Revolution ... This sparked a counter-revolutionary movement led by women; while supporting other political and social changes, ...
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).
The revolt of Lyon against the National Convention was a counter-revolutionary movement in the city of Lyon during the time of the French Revolution.It was a revolt of moderates against the more radical National Convention, the third government during the French Revolution.
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.