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Charles de Bonchamps

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The pardon of Bonchamps

Charles de Bonchamps was mortally wounded at Cholet in October 1793. Before his death, he ordered the release of thousands of Republican prisoners held at Saint-Florent-le-Vieil.

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The profile pic of vendeen generals

A look at the portraits of the Vendéan generals commissioned under Louis XVIII, and how royalist symbolism, selective memory and the deliberate absence of battlefield violence helped turn the leaders of a civil war into figures of Bourbon reconciliation.

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