Chouannerie
Breton peasant uprising
Chouannerie refers to the royalist insurgency in western France during the French Revolution, particularly in Brittany and neighboring regions from 1793 to 1800.
The Chouans were peasant guerrillas who resisted the revolutionary government, fighting for the restoration of the monarchy and Catholic Church.
The name likely comes from a leader's nickname meaning "screech owl," referring to the rebels' use of owl calls as signals.
The Chouannerie flared up repeatedly until Napoleon's consolidation of power.
Irregular armed fighter
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
ambush · skirmish · partisans · sabotage · resistance · raids · peasant · smugglers
Peninsula in northwest France
Rule by crowned sovereign
- BourbonFrench ruling family
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- fleur-de-lisStylized heraldic lily motif
- émigréOne who left home
Restoration · counterrevolutionary · Catholic · ancien régime · Sacré-Cœur · divine right
guerrilla
Irregular armed fighter
- counterrevolutionReversal of political upheaval
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
clandestine · ambush · skirmish · partisans · sabotage · resistance · raids · peasant · smugglers · outlaws
Brittany
Peninsula in northwest France
monarchy
Rule by crowned sovereign
- BourbonFrench ruling family
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- fleur-de-lisStylized heraldic lily motif
émigré · Restoration · counterrevolutionary · Catholic · ancien régime · Sacré-Cœur · divine right
- Vendee Warsblue army, Nantes, Loire, memorial sites, counter-revolution
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
ChouannerieJacobins
French revolutionary faction
Montagnards · sans-culottes · republicanism · constitutional monarchy