Maurice Hutt

Chouannerie and Counter-Revolution

Puisaye, the Princes and the British Government in the 1790s

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chouannerie had its origins in the rifts which opened in Breton society during the French Revolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780521089142
• ISBN-10: 052108914X
• Artikelnr.: 25006755

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. 1. La Vendée and the Chouannerie
2. The making of a royalist chef
3. Puisaye's first efforts in Brittany
4. The British government and the Princes
5. Puisaye as 'ally' and 'instrument'
6. A winter of disappointments
7. Final preparations
Part II. 8. Quiberon
9. Aftermath
10. the Prince on Yeu and Puisaye in Brittany
11. The balance of forces, spring 1796
12. The 'pacification'
13. Puisaye, the Agency and the Princes
14. An active retirement.