On 15 July, Claude Sandoz and a garrison of 800 had repulsed 5,000 insurgents led by d'Elbee; on 28 July, Tuncq drove off a second attempt; two weeks later, Tuncq and his 5,000 men routed 30,000 insurgents under the personal command of François de Charette.[35]. Although La Chapelle-Basse-Mer served him repeatedly as a reference point, Secher illustrated his arguments with wide citations from national and regional archives to establish a broader frame of reference. Jacques Villemain is a French diplomat, and is currently the vice representative of France at OECD and is representing France at the International Court of Justice.

In effect, the law of 14 Frimaire aimed to institute a uniform administration with no resistance, the opposite of that to the constitution of 1791.

General warfare was now at an end, but the severe reprisals taken by the Republican commander General Louis-Marie Turreau de Garambouville provoked further resistance. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Furthermore, he drew on graphic, nineteenth century accounts widely known to the historians of the Vendee: Carrier drownings and the "infernal columns of Turreau". In February, the National Convention had voted to approve a levy of three hundred thousand men, to be chosen by lot among the unmarried men in each commune.

Even the departmental organization was bypassed for everything bar tax and public works.

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426–34, et « Les dérives vendéennes de l'imaginaire révolutionnaire », AESC, n°3, 1988, pp.

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While many of the Federalist revolts were collapsing under both local pressures—food shortages, fear of reprisals, reluctant to march far—and the actions of Convention Deputies sent on mission, on August 27th, 1793 Toulon accepted an offer of protection from a British fleet which had been sailing offshore, declaring themselves in favor of the infant Louis VII and welcoming the British to port.

The Reign of Terror took place during the brief period of rule of the urban workers, or 'sans-culottes' , called the Jacobin government because of their alliance with the political Jacobin Club. The Committee of Public Safety's counter-offensive took the terror deep into the heart of the Vendée.

Almost 17,000 people were killed by official executions during the Reign of Terror, with historians estimating hundreds of thousands more deaths as part of the revolts throughout France or as unrecorded murders. The Battle of Montaigu was fought on 21 September 1793 when the Vendéens attacked general Jean-Michel Beysser's French Republican division.

By November, Carnot could send more forces to the eastern front and find new commanders for the two armies: Charles Pichegru for the Rhine and Lazare Hoche for the Moselle. On the eastern front, Custine, with 45,000 men, was threatened with encirclement in the spring of 1793. [76], Despite the criticism, a number of scholars continue the assertion of genocide.

Prematurely engaging the Austrians at Neerwinden, west of Liege, Dumouriez was severely defeated on March 18. On September 17th, a Law of Suspects was introduced allowing for the arrest of anyone whose conduct suggested they were supporters of tyranny or federalism, a law which could be easily twisted to affect just about everyone in the nation. Meanwhile, factional infighting in Paris saw more groups go to the guillotine and sansculotte power began to wane, partly as a result of exhaustion, partly because of the success of their measures (there was little left to agitate for) and partly as a purging of the Paris Commune took hold. One of the leaders of this school of thought, Charles-Louis Chassin, published eleven volumes of letters, archives, and other materials supporting this position.

[18], Within a few weeks the rebel forces had formed a substantial, if ill-equipped, army, the Royal and Catholic Army, supported by two thousand irregular cavalry and a few captured artillery pieces. Furthermore, the only punishment it could give out was death. The Sardinians could ill afford much help for Toulon, since the contingents that they had been expecting from Austria were sent instead to help Wurmser on the Rhine. The Vendean leader Lescure was seriously injured in the fighting.

The War in the Vendée (1793; French: Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. Ultimately, the uprising was suppressed using draconian measures.

In May the rebels (about 30,000 strong) took the towns of Thouars, Parthenay, and Fontenay, and their army, which had changed its name from “the Catholic Army” to “the Catholic and Royal Army,” turned north and on June 9 took Saumur. London: Greenhill, 1998, p. 48. "Peasant Grievances and Peasant Insurrection: France in 1789,", Tackett, Timothy. Gen. Antonio Ricardos led his forces across the frontier on April 16, 1793, and reached the Tech River on April 18, but his advance on Perpignan was repulsed on July 17.

The Reign of Terror instituted the conscripted army, which saved France from invasion by other countries and in that sense preserved the Revolution.

The split formed with the application of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the oath to support it, in 1790–1792. Homeless children also became a state responsibility, and people born out of wedlock were given full inheritance rights. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France.

A large band of peasants under the leadership of Jacques Cathelineau and Jean-Nicolas Stofflet seized Saint-Florent-le-Vieil on 12 March. With the recall of Turreau (May) and the rise to power of the moderate Thermidorian faction in Paris (July), a more conciliatory policy was adopted. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the Loire River in western France. [60][61][62][63][64] Claude Langlois (of the Institute of History of the French Revolution) derides Secher's claims as "quasi-mythological". Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. As Pitt again attempted peace negotiations, ultimately failing, this left Britain to fight France alone. To extricate himself and to protect Alsace, Custine withdrew most of his forces to Landau. [22] After six hours of fighting, rebel reinforcements arrived and routed the Republican forces.