Chouan (`the silent one`, or `owl`) is a French surname. It was used as a nom de guerre by the Chouan brothers, most notably Jean Cottereau, better known as Jean Chouan, who led a major revolt in Bas-Maine against the French Revolution. Members of this revolt (and even French royalists in general) came to be known as Chouans, and the revolt it...
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• (n.) One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
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member of any of the bands of peasants, chiefly smugglers and dealers in contraband salt, who rose in revolt in the west of France in 1793 and ...
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Chou'an noun [ French] One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
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