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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History of Lorient (section Developments under the Perpetual Company of the East Indies (Compagnie perpétuelle des Indes))
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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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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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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Cemeteries of Nantes (section Pont du Cens cemetery)
(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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Affair of the Cards (redirect from Affaire Des Fiches)
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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French Directory (section Amusement – Bals des victimes, pleasure gardens, new restaurants and cafés)
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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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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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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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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