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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. Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between ...
- Chouan
Chouan ("the silent one", or "owl") is a French nickname. It...
- Chouannerie
Chouannerie. The Chouannerie (from the Chouan brothers, two...
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The motive for revolt was less devotion to the monarchy than resentment at interference by the new republican government with the Chouans’ old habits, the ruin of their contraband trade by the abolition of the gabelle (a centuries-old tax on salt), government measures against the clergy, and the enforcement of conscription.
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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 .
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Other articles where Les Chouans is discussed: Honoré de Balzac: Early career: 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.
Les Chouans mi è sembrato un romanzo che riesce a essere al tempo stesso melodrammatico, rocambolesco e iperdescrittivo. È ambientato nel 1799 (cioè proprio nell'anno in cui nasceva Balzac), in Bretagna. Il centro dell’azione, in particolare nell’ultima parte, è Fougères, notevole per il suo castello
