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Les Chouans (French pronunciation: [le ʃwɑ̃], The Chouans) is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie militaire section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.
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Chouan ("the silent one", or "owl") is a French nickname. It...
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1795-1800: ~55,000 men. The Chouannerie (from the Chouan...
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Les Chouans étaient des insurgés royalistes de Bretagne, du Maine, de Basse-Normandie et du nord de l'Anjou pendant les guerres de la chouannerie. Actifs au nord de la Loire, les chouans sont distincts des « Vendéens », actifs quant à eux au sud du fleuve, dans le Bas-Poitou, le sud de l'Anjou et le Pays de Retz breton.
The Chouans were a counter-revolutionary movement during the French Revolution that occurred in the region between Brittany and Nantes and Balzac places his story in this accurate historic contest. The book is fast-paced and an extraordinary read and highly memorable.
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Les Chouans, the first novel he felt enough confidence about to have published under his own name, is a historical novel about the Breton peasants called Chouans who took part in a royalist insurrection against Revolutionary France in 1799.
Last Updated September 5, 2023. Honore de Balzac's 1828 novel, Les Chouans, is set against the historical backdrop of revolutionary France in 1799. At the time, a counter-revolutionary movement ...
