Name given to a band of smugglers who rebelled during the French Revolution and joined the Royalists in the Wars of the
Vendée. Led by Jean Cottereau (1757-1794), they grew into an army known as...
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Chouans was a name given to the royalist peasantry of Brittany and Lower Maine, who carried on a petty warfare against the republican government from an early period of the French revolution. The name was finally extended to all the Vendeans. The name was derived from the first chief of the Chouans, Jean Cottereau, who with his three brothers organ...
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