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    chamber pots from second-story windows at the pursuing Chouans. The general heading the Chouan troops was getting ready to bombard Villedieu and set it...
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    ISBN 978-2911253348. Savary, Jean Julien Michel (1824). Guerres des Vendéens et des Chouans contre la République (in French). Vol. I. Baudouin frères. Archived...
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    School - (Solvay Castle) Art and History Museum - Cholet Chouans in ambush (c. 1883) Chouans routed (1883) Broel Museum - Courtray False Alarm (1884)...
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    Dupuy-de-Lôme opened the previous year. The Parc des Sports opened in 1958, the same year as the Pont d'Oradour, and the Hôtel de Ville in 1960, followed...
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    Insurrection of 31 May – 2 June began. Hanriot was ordered to fire a cannon on the Pont-Neuf as a sign of alarm. Around ten in the morning 12,000 armed citizens...
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    goods were looted on 18 March 1793 by about 300 bandits, later called chouans (= royalists). The turmoil sparked by the mass movement of 300 men lasted...
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    (1999). Le Patrimoine des communes de la Loire-Atlantique. Le patrimoine des communes de France (in French). Vol. 2. Charenton-le-Pont: Flohic éditions. ISBN 2-84234-040-X...
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    Roman Polanski A Very Long Engagement, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Chouans!, directed by Philippe de Broca Locronan is the hometown of the character...
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    Pierre-François de Paule de La Motte-Ango, supported the counter-revolutionary chouans. The castle of Flers became the headquarters of count Louis de Frotté,...
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  • Gymnase-Dramatique, and the Théâtre des Variétés. . 1792: Saint-Far, ou la Délicatesse de l'amour, comedy in 1 act, in verse 1794: Les Chouans, ou La Républicaine de...
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    general of the Chouans of Fougères and Vitré, Maréchal de camp under the Restoration. Louis Picquet du Boisguy [fr] (1774–1804), Chouan officer, brother...
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    Three new suspension bridges were built over the Seine; the Pont d'Archeveché, the Pont des Invalides and footbridge of the Grève. All three were rebuilt...
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    Père Duchesne during the French Revolution Louis de Frotté (1766–1800), Chouan general Jean Pierre François Bonet, Military commander Edme Castaing (1796–1824)...
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    The Affair of the Cards (French: Affaire des Fiches), sometimes called the Affair of the Casseroles, was a political scandal which broke out in 1904 in...
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    Marquis de Lafayette Aimé Picquet du Boisguy (1776–1839), a notably young chouan general at the age of 19 during the French Revolution "G. Lenotre" (nom-de-plume...
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    the Upper Paleolithic, as attested by the famous cave paintings at Chauvet Pont d'Arc. The Ardèche river plateau has extensive standing stones (mainly dolmens...
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  • "Robespierre au cinéma." Rencontres (2014): 271-281. Pascal Dupuy. "La Diffusion des stéréotypes révolutionnaires dans la littérature et le cinéma anglo-saxons...
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  • Three new suspension bridges were built over the Seine; the Pont de l'Archevêché, the Pont des Invalides and footbridge of the Grève. All three were rebuilt...
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    untouched during the Reign of Terror although there were some clashes with the Chouans. The Napoleonic period saw the creation of the national stud. In 1827,...
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    feeble and scattered remnant of the Vendeans still under arms and the Chouans. On 16 July 1796, the Directory proclaimed the official end of the war...
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    title of Medina Celi Tanneguy Lehideux, Combats d'un Chouan: Terrien coeur de lion, colonel de Chouans, Chevalier de Saint-Louis or La Chouannerie in Upper...
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    from the thirteenth century. In 1464, after its rebuilding, it was renamed Pont Neuf. Its final form dates to 1752 and its last restoration was in 1983....
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    occupied and raided by troops both pro-republican and anti-revolutionary (Chouans). However, in 1802 the Avranches diocese was restored as part of the Diocese...
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    comedy in 3 acts, in verse 1833: Jacques le Chouan : Madame en Vendée 1834: Le Chevalier de Saint-Pont (histoire de 1784) 1836: Gresset (Jean-Baptiste-Louis)...
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    suicide before they were taken to the guillotine. On 23 June 1795, the Chouans, royalist and Catholic rebels in Brittany, formed an army of 14,000 men...
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    francs. He published for the first time under his own name in 1829. Les Chouans, a novel about royalist forces in Brittany, did not succeed commercially...
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    Habloville (redirect from Dolmen des Bignes)
    near the Château du Jardin in Bissey. On 29 May 1799 a small group of Chouans surrounded by 3,000 Republican soldiers fell back towards the telegraph...
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  • the painter Hermann-Paul. The cross was transferred ten years later to the Pont du Mort (or the Maure), at the western entrance to the village on the road...
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    area was the site of heavy clashes between the Republican forces and the Chouan rebels. From 29 July 1901 to 31 December 1933, Saint-James was connected...
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    dedicated to Balzac's brother in law, an engineer in the corps royal des ponts et chaussées, Eugène Midy de la Greneraye Surville. Even so, Balzac offered...
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