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Vendee Collection

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee : Cholet Taken

Vendee : Cholet Taken
The Breton royalists led by Cathelineau take the town of Cholet from the revolutionaries

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee Larochejacquelin

Vendee Larochejacquelin
If I retreat, shoot me : if I advance, follow me : if I am killed, avenge me. Vendee commander Larochejacquelein leads his men heroically, but he will be killed in action

Background imageVendee Collection: Dassault Mirage F. 1C 5-NO

Dassault Mirage F. 1C 5-NO
Armee de l'Air - Dassault Mirage F.1C 5-NO (msn 208), of Escadron de Chasse 1/5 Vendee'. (Armee de l'Air - French Air Force). Date: 1980

Background imageVendee Collection: BONCHAMP DIES 1793

BONCHAMP DIES 1793
Bonchamp (or Bonchamps), Royalist Vendeean leader, dies at Cholet. Date: 1793

Background imageVendee Collection: Women kayaking in northern France 1904

Women kayaking in northern France 1904
Two women in a kayak being helped by a male instructor at Olonne in the Vendee, France. 1904

Background imageVendee Collection: Grotto and prehistoric stones in the Vendee, France

Grotto and prehistoric stones in the Vendee, France
Entrance to the grotto at St. Brandriere and prehistoric stones, dolmen, menhir, obelisk, column at St. Gilles, in the Vendee, France

Background imageVendee Collection: VENDEEANS DROWNED

VENDEEANS DROWNED
The Noyades [drownings] de Nantes - Republican general Carrier orders priests and royalist sympathisers taken out onto the Loire in barges and drowned. Date: February - May 1794

Background imageVendee Collection: END OF VENDEE WAR

END OF VENDEE WAR
The end of the Vendee war - Hoche signs a treaty with the Bretons; henceforward the west is officially peaceful, though most retain their anti- republican sympathies. Date: 20 April 1795

Background imageVendee Collection: ROYALIST DEFENDS HERSELF

ROYALIST DEFENDS HERSELF
A shopkeeper of Saint-Mithier defends her royalist sympathies when her shop is invaded by Republicans, by holding a pistol over a barrel of gunpowder. Date: 1794

Background imageVendee Collection: END OF VENDEE WARS

END OF VENDEE WARS
After making two treaties with the Vendeans, Hoche signs one with the Bretons, thus officially bringing to an end the Vendean insurrection Date: 20 April 1795

Background imageVendee Collection: VENDEANS AT NANTES

VENDEANS AT NANTES
After successfully taking Saumur and Angers, the Vendeans are defeated at Nantes Date: 29 June 1793

Background imageVendee Collection: Francois de Charette - French Royalist soldier & politician

Francois de Charette - French Royalist soldier & politician
Francois Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (1763-1796) - a French Royalist soldier and politician. He was one of the leaders of the bloody events termed the " Revolt in the Vend饦 quot;

Background imageVendee Collection: Larochejacquelin

Larochejacquelin
Henri du Verger, comte de LAROCHEJACQUELIN French royalist leader in La Vendee Date: 1772 - 1794

Background imageVendee Collection: Charette De LA Contrie

Charette De LA Contrie
Francois Athanase CHARETTE DE LA CONTRIE French royalist of the Vendee, enemy of the Revolution Date: 1763 - 1796

Background imageVendee Collection: Louis Lazare Hoche

Louis Lazare Hoche (1768-1797), French military commander in the Revolutionary War, suppressed the Vendee rising, died of a chest ailment. Date: circa 1790s

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee Rising

Vendee Rising
Carrier suppresses the counter-revolution in the Vendee (Bretagne) with ruthless rigour : royalists beg for mercy, but in vain. Date: 1793

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee : Blacksmith

Vendee : Blacksmith
Royalist resistance comes from ordinary people such as the heroic Blacksmith of the Vendee, armed only with the tools of his trade. Date: 1793

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee : Heroic Woman

Vendee : Heroic Woman
Renee Bordereau, aka l Aangevin, saw her father butchered and lost 40+ relatives fighting the Revolution : usually in male dress, she is captured and imprisoned but survives. Date: circa 1793

Background imageVendee Collection: Francois Westermann

Francois Westermann
FRANCOIS-JOSEPH WESTERMANN unscrupulous soldier and thief, who acted without pity to suppress the Vendee resistance, but was guillotined along with Danton. Date: 1751 - 1794

Background imageVendee Collection: Henri LA Rochejaquelein

Henri LA Rochejaquelein
HENRI AUGUSTE GEORGES DU VERGIER, marquis de LA ROCHEJAQUELEIN (or Rochejaquelin) French statesman, nephew of the Vendee general Date: 1805 - 1867

Background imageVendee Collection: Lazare Hoche

Lazare Hoche
LAZARE HOCHE French military commander in the Revolutionary War, suppressed the Vendee rising, died of a chest ailment. Date: 1768 - 1797

Background imageVendee Collection: Journee de la Vendee. 5 mars 1916

Journee de la Vendee. 5 mars 1916. A disabled soldier and a boy in a uniform walking along the water. Date 1916. Journee de la Vendee. 5 mars 1916

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee War - 2

Vendee War - 2
Charette de la Contrie, leader of the Vendee insurgents, in combat with the Revolutionary forces. Date: 1792

Background imageVendee Collection: A Vende

A Vende

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee Defeat

Vendee Defeat
The Royalist forces are forced to withdraw across the Loire

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee Submission

Vendee Submission
After Napoleon, first consul, offers them an amnesty, the royalist leaders submit to the government : their surrender brings the bitter Vendee struggle to an end

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee Noyades

Vendee Noyades
Carrier is the most ruthless of revolutionary commanders : at Nantes he orders royalist prisoners to be thrown into the river - les noyades (drownings) de la Loire

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee War - 5

Vendee War - 5
The Vendeans besiege Granville

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee : Passport

Vendee : Passport
Facsimile of a passport issued at Chollet (Cholet) by the royalists in the Vendee by the commanders of the catholic and royal armies of the Breton resistance

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee : Catholics

Vendee : Catholics
The Vendee struggle is as much religious as political : the Catholic clergy are harassed by the government and forced to hold clandestine masses in the countryside

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee War - 1

Vendee War - 1
In the early stages of the rising, Breton insurgents taken at Fouessant are brought into Quimper

Background imageVendee Collection: Vendee War - 3

Vendee War - 3
A Breton royalist is arrested by the revolutionaries. Date: circa 1793


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