![]() ![]() In 1791, two “representatives mission” informed the National Convention of the disquieting condition of Vendée, and this news was quickly followed by the exposure of a royalist plot organized by the Marquis de la Rouerie. ![]() The conflicts that drove the revolution were also lessened in this particularly isolated part of France by the strong adherence of the populace to their Catholic faith. An Intendants’ survey showed one of the few areas where they still lived with the peasants was the Vendée. ![]() Alexis de Tocqueville noted that most French nobles lived in cities by 1789. In the rural Vendée, the local nobility seems to have been more permanently in residence and less bitterly resented than in other parts of France. Painting by Julien Le BlantĬlass differences were not as great in the Vendée as in Paris or in other French provinces. The historian François Furet concludes that the repression in the Vendee “not only revealed massacre and destruction on an unprecedented scale but also a zeal so violent that it has bestowed as its legacy much of the region’s identity….The war aptly epitomizes the depth of the conflict…between religious tradition and the revolutionary foundation of democracy.” Some historians have described the Republican conduct as genocide. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred by the Republican armies. ![]() Initially, the war was similar to the 14th-century Jacquerie peasant uprising, but quickly took on counterrevolutionary themes. The uprising headed by the self-styled Catholic and Royal Army was closely tied to the Chouannerie, which took place in the area north of the Loire. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France. The War in the Vendée (1793 to 1796 French: Guerre de Vendée) was a Royalist rebellion and counterrevolution in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. Inhabitants of the Vendee: ~ 170,000 military and civilians killed (75 – 80% royalists and 20 – 25% republicans) Western France : Maine-et-Loire, Vendée, Loire-Atlantique, Deux-Sèvres (or former provinces of Anjou, Poitou, Britanny) Henri de La Rochejacquelein at the Battle of Cholet in 1793by Paul-Émile Boutigny, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Cholet, Cholet, France ![]()
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