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Henri de La Rochejaquelein was at the Tuileries on 10 August 1792, among the men called in to defend Louis XVI. He survived the attack, escaped across the Seine, and then spent weeks trying to get safely out of Paris.
Read more →As both a witness to and a victim of the immortal war of the Vendée, I have endured a succession of events so dreadful and so extraordinary that I shall find it difficult to recount their sorrowful course. I regret only that…
Read more →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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