CHOUANS

shooˈənz, Fr. shwäN [Norman Fr.,=owls], peasants of W France who rose against the French Revolutionary government in 1793. One of their first leaders was Jean Cottereau, traditionally nicknamed Jean Chouan, marquis de La Rouerie [John the owl, marquess of Mischief], and the Chouans supposedly used the hoot of an owl as a signal. The movement eventually merged with the contemporary rising in the Vendée. The Chouans were motivated by their opposition to specific policies of the new republican government that interfered with their way of life, including religious policy and enforcement of the conscription laws. The name Chouannerie continued to be used in reference to guerrilla warfare that lasted until Napoleon. The so-called Petite Chouannerie persisted until 1815, when Napoleon was forced to divert troops from Waterloo to quell it. Honoré de Balzac's novel Les Chouans pictures these people vividly.

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books on: Chouans  - 213 results

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Guerrilla Conflict before the Cold War
Book by Anthony James Joes; Praeger Publishers, 1996
Subjects: Guerrillas
...1794 there were perhaps 22,000 active Chouans. 169 They cut bridges, disrupted tax...killings of local republicans because the Chouans still had hopes of reconciliation to restore...northern and eastern fronts. 172 The Chouans found themselves to be severely handicapped...
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Peripheries of Nineteenth-Century French Studies: Views from the Edge
Book by Timothy Raser; University of Delaware Press, 2002
Subjects: French Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism
...examination of national identity in Les Chouans beyond the Breton question not only because...Breton material Balzac created in Les Chouans served to address the question of French...the novelist could possibly describe the Chouans ferocious resistance to the new political...
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Historical Dictionary of the French Revolution 1789-1799 - Vol. 2
Book by Samuel F. Scott, Barry Rothaus; Greenwood Press, 1985
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Dictionaries
...though, was not. The thousands of chouans who assembled were not well suited to...meant that the landing force plus the chouans failed to break out beyond the Auray...counterattack to drive "the anglo- emigre chouans " back into the peninsula of Quiberon...
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English Language Criticism on the Foreign Novel: 1965-1975
Book by Harriet Semmes Alexander; Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1989
Subjects: Fiction--History And Criticism--Bibliography
...J. Balzac: An Interpretation Of La Comedie Humaine , pp. 10-13. THE CHOUANS Les chouans, 1834 DARGAN, E. P. and W. L. CRMN. "The First Monument: Les Chouans," in Studies In Balzacs Realism , pp. 33-67. HAGGIS, D. R. "Scott...
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William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon
Book by Emile Legouis; J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, 1922
Subjects: Vallon family, Vallon, Annette, Wordsworth, William--1770-1850
...Directory might be shifted on to them. The Chouans were under oath to render every assistance...himself was the ordinary counsel for the Chouans of the region when brought to justice...pay. The usual meeting-place of the Chouans was, doubtless, Berruets coffee-house...
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journal articles on: Chouans  - 26 results

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"Tomber Dans le Phenomene": Balzac's Optics of Narration
Journal article; French Forum, Vol. 26, 2001
Subjects: Authors, French--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Balzac, Honore de--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Creative writing--Criticism, interpretation, etc., French literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature--Technique
...orphan presented as the author of Les Chouans (1828) in its Avertissement. Although...fictional role external to the story of Les Chouans. Bixious listeners continuously attack...of a sweeping historical event (as Les Chouans was meant to do) than with providing...
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The Designs of Faulkner's "yoknapatawpha Saga" and Balzac's Human Comedy
Journal article by Jacques Pothier; The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 13, 1997
Subjects: Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850), Comparative studies, Faulkner, William (1897-1962), Literary criticism, Source studies
...admiration for Balzacs first mature novel, Les Chouans, did not only develop in a parallelism...after "Galope-chopine" in Balzacs Chouans. Ironically the French advisor to Warner...was published; that was Le Dernier des Chouans, whose title revealed the influence of...
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Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction
Journal article by Eduardo A. Febles; French Forum, Vol. 33, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Optiques: The Science of the Eye and the Birth of Modern French Fiction (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...analysis of selected works from La Comedie humaine--Les Chouans, Louis Lambert, La Maison Nucingen, Le Bal de Sceaux, Seraphita...times, the minute analysis of few details in such works as Les Chouans is used to draw conclusions which could have been more systematically...
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Samuels, Maurice. the Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France
Journal article by Michael Tilby; Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Vol. 34, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Book)--Book reviews
...authors, Samuels provides fresh and insightful readings of Les Chouans and "Adieu" as well as Le Colonel Chabert. Although he is...Samuels accepts a little too readily the canonical view of Les Chouans as a straightforward attempt to emulate Scott, and that it...
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Stories of Blushes: Ehrengard and Le Chevalier Des Touches
Journal article by Kristine J. Anderson; Symposium, Vol. 46, 1992
Subjects: Barbey D'Aurevilly, J--(Jules)--1808-1889--Chevalier Des Touches
...rescued des Touches, Aimee pledged her troth to one of them, known only as Monsieur Jacques, in the presence of their fellow Chouans. After Monsieur Jacques was killed in the famous rescue expedition, Aimee retired to a convent, from which she now periodically...
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Old Catholics
Magazine article by Austin Hughes, Algis Valiunas; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2007
Subjects: Balzac, Honore de--Criticism and interpretation, Balzac, Honore de--Works, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Works, Pere Goriot, Lost Illusions (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
...subhuman the heroic Breton guerrillas (Les Chouans) who rebelled against the revolutionary...resistance to the French Revolution, Les Chouans. Though Balzac does not gloss over the...the fount of love. The leader of the Chouans, the Marquis de Lantenac, sacrifices...
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Terrorism in America: Reflections from a French Field
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 279, November 2001
Subjects: French--Attitudes, Terrorism--Public opinion, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001--Public opinion
...French audience and a provincial one. Would you have called the Chouans terrorists? I asked instead, thinking of the night ambushes...cause, their freedom. Just so . . . said the fat man. The Chouans were alone. Only in the Vandee . . . He was right of course...
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Does the Left Have a Future?
Magazine article by Daniel Singer; The Nation, Vol. 259, July 25, 1994
Subjects: Europe--Elections, Socialism--Europe
...de Villiers de Saintignon, to give the Viscount his full title, is a genuine reactionary. He still wages the war of the Chouans against the French Revolution; he resigned from his civil service job when a Socialist became the President of the Republic...
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Toussaint Louverture
Magazine article by Graham Gendall Norton; History Today, Vol. 53, April 2003
Subjects: Chateau de Joux Prison, Hispaniola, Louverture, Toussaint, Politicians
...Joux--Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Mirabeau (for personal rather than political reasons), chouans after the Vendee, the German patriot-poet von Kleist, as well as mulatto generals, contemporaries of Toussaint. Toussaint...


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50 for Fun; Phil Brown's Trivia Quiz
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 4, 2006
...film Dead Men Dont Wear Plaid? 25 Which religion believing in reincarnation was founded in 1875 by Helena Blavatsky? 26 The Chouans, or "screech owls", were royalist guerrilla fighters in which country in the 18th century? 27 Which peoples forces did...


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encyclopedia articles on: Chouans  - 9 results

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Chouans
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHOUANS shoo nz, Fr. shwaN Norman Fr.,=owls...the owl, marquess of Mischief, and the Chouans supposedly used the hoot of an owl as a...contemporary rising in the Vendee . The Chouans were motivated by their opposition to specific...
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Cottereau, Jean
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COTTEREAU, JEAN see Chouans . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Napoleon I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to the success of his regime. He thereby neutralized the antirevolutionary priests who had encouraged peasant unrest (see Chouans ) since 1793. Church property was not restored, but church unity and status were reestablished in return for stricter submission...
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VendÉe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Revolutionary authorities. The army occupied Saumur and planned to continue through Brittany, Maine, and Normandy to join the Chouans , the anti-Revolutionary peasants of those regions. However, the important city of Nantes held out against the Vendeans...
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Laval , Town, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...industrial products are textiles, shoes, furniture, and electronics. It was founded in the 9th cent. Laval was a center of the Chouans in the French Revolution. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...
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