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Chouan. Breton sentinel in front of a church, painting of Charles Loyeux. Chouan ("the silent one", or "owl") is a French nickname. 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.
Chouans! is a 1988 French historical adventure film directed by Philippe de Broca and starring Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, and Lambert Wilson. Based on the 1829 novel Les Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, the film is about a woman who must choose between two brothers on opposite sides of the French Civil War of 1793.
Chouan, member of any of the bands of peasants, chiefly smugglers and dealers in contraband salt, who revolted alongside the Vendéan royalists in the west of France in 1793. The Breton word chouan, meaning “screech owl,” is supposed to have been applied originally as a nickname to Jean Cottereau.
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1795-1800: ~55,000 men. The Chouannerie (from the Chouan brothers, two of its leaders) was a royalist uprising or counter-revolution in twelve of the western départements of France, particularly in the provinces of Brittany and Maine, against the First Republic during the French Revolution.
- 1794-1800
- Republican victory
- Brittany, Maine, Normandy
Mar 23, 1988 · Chouans!: Directed by Philippe de Broca. With Philippe Noiret, Vincent Schmitt, Raoul Billerey, Claudine Delvaux. In 1793 when terror is widespread in France, peasants known as Chouans fight the revolutionaries in attempt to restore the monarchy.
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- Adventure, History, War
- Philippe de Broca
- 1988-03-23
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.
Jun 11, 2018 · Modern Europe. French History. Chouans. views 1,375,594 updated Jun 11 2018. Chouan a member of an irregular force maintaining a partisan resistance in the west of France against the Republican and Bonapartist governments.
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