Chapter 13 Volume 3 in the Vendée Chapter 1 Vendée

At that time there were seven forests in Brittany.The Vendée is the symbol of a patriarchal rebellion whose accomplice is the forest.Darkness covers each other. The seven Breton forests are: the forest of Fougères, between Dole and Avranche; Impassable, but clear from the Royalist town of Concornet; the Forest of Wren, where the alarm bells of the republican parishes, which are numerous in the vicinity of the city, were to be heard, and it was here that Puisse lost his fortune. Karl; the forest of Mashcourt, whose beast of the woods is Charette; the forest of Garnache, which belongs to the houses of La Tremoye, Govin, and Rohan; the forest of Broseliand, which belongs to Fairy.

The title of a nobleman in Brittany is Lord of the Seven Woods.He is the Viscount de Fontenay, Prince of Brittany. The Prince of Brittany did exist, unlike the Prince of France.The Rohan family is the Prince of Brittany.Garnier of Center described the Prince de Talmont in his report to the National Convention on the 15th day of the snow month of the second year of the republic: "The Bandit King, Lord of Mann and Normandy." The Brittany Forest from 1792 to 1800 has a unique history that merges with the grand history of the legendary Vendée. History has its truths, and legends have their truths.Legendary truth is different from historical truth.Legendary truth is a fiction that results in reality.Yet both history and legend have the same purpose: to portray the eternal man behind the ephemeral.

The Vendée can only be fully explained by supplementing history with legend.Use history to illustrate the overall situation, and use legends to illustrate the details. Vendée deservedly so.The Vendée is a miracle. This war of fools, folly and splendor, pity and splendor, grieves and prides France.The Vendée was both traumatic and glorious. At certain moments, human society will pose riddles that turn into light in the eyes of the wise and darkness, violence, and barbarism in the eyes of the fool.The philosopher is reluctant to accuse, because he thinks of the confusion that the question creates.Wherever the problem passes, it leaves a cloud-like shadow.

To understand the Vendée one must consider this confrontation between the French Revolution on the one hand and the Breton peasantry on the other.On one side are these incomparable events: aggressive favors, angry civilizations, radical progress.Incomprehensibly vast improvement, on the other side the serious and eccentric wild man, the long-haired man with the clear eyes: he lives on milk and chestnuts; he sees only his thatched roof, his hedges and ditches; he can Recognizes the bells of the nearby villages; his water is used only to quench his thirst; he wears a fur coat with a silk ornament; He respects his master who mistreats him; he speaks a dead language, which puts his mind in a grave; he drives oxen, sharpens his scythe, weeds rye, and makes wheat bread; he adores the plow He worships his grandmother more than his grandmother; he believes in the Virgin Mary and the Transfiguration; he kneels before the altar, and before the mysterious boulder standing in the middle of the wasteland; he is a farmer on the plain, a fisherman by the sea, and a poacher among the thorns ;he loved his king, his lord, his priest, his lice; and often he stood brooding on the deserted beach, and listened gloomily to the sea.

Please think, can such a blind person receive such light? The farmer has two points of support: the fields that feed him and the woods that hide him. It is hard to imagine what the woods of Brittany looked like then.It was a city.Nothing could be more deaf, dumb, or savage than a tangle of brambles and boughs.These vast jungles are the abodes of stillness and silence, and there is a solitude as dead and as grave.If you split the trees like lightning, you will see crowds in the shadows. The narrow round mouth of the well was covered by stones and branches, and the path first formed a vertical line, then became a horizontal line, and formed a funnel underground to widen, and finally reached the dark room.This is the darkroom that Cambizi discovered in Egypt, and that Westermann discovered in Brittany, except that in Egypt it is a desert, in Brittany it is a forest; There are living people in Littany's cellar.In Miston Woods, there is a very desolate clearing, under which are all tunnels and small rooms, in which a group of mysterious people come and go, this clearing is called "Great City", another forest The clearing is similar, desolate on the outside, but crowded below ground. It is called the "Royal Square." ① The Persian king who conquered Egypt in the sixth century BC.

This underground life has existed in Brittany since ancient times.In all ages man has always been running from man, and that is why the reptiles have dug their burrows under the roots of trees.They have been around since the days of the Druid priests, and some are as old as the Table Graves.Legendary ghosts and historical demons have all passed above this dark country: Tetates ① Tissa, Auel ②, Naomena ③, Geoffroy, the son of the king of England, Alan the Iron Hand , Pierre Molec, the House of Blois in France, the House of Montfort in England, Kings, Dukes, the Seven Barons of Brittany, the Judges of the Lord's Court, Nantes who quarreled with the Count of Wren Counts, bandits, large troops, René II, Viscount Rohan, the governors appointed by the king, the "good Duc de Scholl" who hung the peasants from the window of Madame de Sévigné, the fifteenth-century The massacres of lords, the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the 30,000 chasing dogs of the eighteenth century, the people decided to go into hiding.They were originally to escape the Celts, then the Celts from the Romans, the Bretons from the Normans, the Protestants from the Catholics, the smugglers from the salt tax.They hid first in the forest, and later in the ground.This is the animal's countermeasure.How tyranny has brought nations down!For two thousand years, all kinds of despotism: seizing cities and land, feudal separatism, fanatical and blind obedience, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have driven confusion and poor Brittany into desperation.It was a brutal and merciless hunt, only in a different form.People go into holes. ①The god of the Celtic race, God of War.

②Several dukes of Brittany between the sixth and nineteenth centuries. ③The leader of the city of Littany in the ninth century. ④French female writer in the seventeenth century, famous for her letters. When the French Republic suddenly appeared, the hearts of the Bretons were filled with terror—a form of rage, and the Breton woods were full of burrows.Brittany rebelled.The emancipation imposed on it made it feel oppressed, and slaves often misunderstood this. The sympathy of man and forest The miserable forest of Brittany played its old role again, as servant and accomplice of the rebellion, as it had been before.

These forests seem to be stony coral, covered with strange and extraordinary traffic networks extending in all directions, as well as various tunnels and chambers.The small rooms without windows can accommodate five or six people each.It will be difficult to breathe there.Some curious figures illustrate how well organized the Peasant Rebellion was.In the forest of Pelt, where Prince Talmont took refuge in the province of Ill and Viland, there was no sound, no human figure, but seven thousand of Faucal's men were hidden underground.In the forest of Merak in the department of Morbihan, there was no one to be seen, but eight thousand people were hidden underground.Pelt and Merrack are not yet the great forests of Brittany.Walking in the forest is terrible, for there are labyrinths underground, in which many warriors squat; and the camouflaged briar bushes are like a big ghostly sponge, when the big foot of revolution steps on it, civil war will be ejected.

The battalion has disappeared without a trace, but it is always watching.The Republic Army doesn't know where they are, but they swim under the Republic Army's feet, burst out of the ground, then disappear underground, jump out with great momentum, and then disappear without a trace; they are omnipresent and fragmented, first in an avalanche , followed by shards, as if they were stretching giants; they fought giants and disappeared as dwarves; they were jaguars with mole characteristics. There are not only forests, but woods; under cities there are villages; under forests there are thornbushes.The forest is connected by scattered and intricate woods.The old castle became a fortress, the village became a camp, the traps and traps were laid in the farms, the ditches and tree barriers were set up in the rented fields, these were a great net against the army of the Republic.

This whole was known as the Boca Fever area at the time. There are many woods here: the Miston wood belonging to Jean Juin, with a pond in its center; The Chaerni grove of Jesse, Courtier alias Saint-Paul, the leader of the camp of the Black Bulls; the Burgo grove belonging to Monsieur Jacques, a mysterious figure who died mysteriously in the tunnels of Juvaldèil; The Charo Forest, where Pimus and the little prince were attacked by the defenders of Chateaunave, went to the Republic Army to capture several grenadiers alive, and took them back as prisoners; Witnesses to the rout of Guffy's Post; Orr Woods.The Vendée was there to keep watch on the road between Reith and Laval; Ruled by Bernard de Villeneuve, and later by Charles de Boisardy; the Bania woods not far from Fontenay, where Les Guerres challenged Charbeaux, Charbeaux The challenge was accepted, one against five; Dillonde Woods, where Sprig Alan, son of Charlie the Bald, and the city of Iris had once fought; Crokerloo Woods, on the edge of the moor, where Cokerloo was The captives are shaved with crew-cuts; the Croix-Baday woods, where Silverlegs and Molière hurl insults at each other; the Sodre woods, the woods we see being searched by a battalion of Parisians.

There are many other woods. In several forests and woods, there are not only villages centered on the chief's cave underground, but also small villages above the ground with low huts hidden under the trees. They are so numerous that they sometimes crowd the forest to the brim.Cooking smoke reveals their secrets.Two hamlets in the woods of Myston are famous, one is Laurier, near Les Tangs, and the other is that cluster of shacks in the direction of Sainte-Ouintoy called Rydbeau. Women lived in huts, men in tombs.During the war they made use of the elaborate tunnels and ancient tunnels of the Celts.Women deliver food to men hiding underground.There were also men who were forgotten and starved to death.This kind of person is stupid and won't push the manhole cover off.Manhole covers are generally made of moss and branches, which are very ingenious. They look exactly like weeds from the outside, but they can be opened and closed at will from the inside.The burrows were dug with great care, and the excavated soil was thrown into a nearby pond.The inner walls and bottom of the well are covered with ferns and moss.The Shed, they called this hideout, and it was all right there, except that there was no sun and fire, and no bread and air. It is very dangerous to come back casually from the ground and come out of the ground at an inopportune time, because you may be running into a marching army.The dreaded woods.double trap.The blue army dared not go in, and the white army dared not come out. D. THEIR LIFE UNDERGROUND These people who hide in animal burrows are often bored.Sometimes they crawl out desperately in the dark to dance in the nearby moors.Sometimes they pass the time with prayers."Jean Juin told us to pray all day," said Burduiszo. At the Feast of Wheat Sheaves, the men of Lower Mainn came and went from their burrows to join in the festivities, and there was little to stop them.Some people are even whimsical. Denis, nicknamed the pangolin, dressed as a woman to go to Laval to watch a play, and then went back to the cave. They would be suddenly slain, and passed from their cell to their grave. Sometimes they lifted the manhole cover to hear whether there was a war in the distance, and followed the war with their ears.The republicans fired in order, the royalists scattered, and they judged by that.If the volley of gunfire suddenly stopped, it showed that the Royalists were defeated. If the intermittent gunfire did not stop and spread to the sky, it showed that the Royalists had the upper hand. The white army chased after the victory, but the blue army never pursued it, because they were afraid of going deep into the enemy's territory. The warriors in these caverns are well-informed, and the information spreads quickly and mysteriously.They destroyed all the bridges, pulled down all the wagons, but they still told each other everything and everything.Between forests and forests, between villages and villages, between farms and farms, between huts and huts, between bushes and bushes, there are emissary stations. A farmer with a demented appearance walks around, with dispatches in hollow sticks. An ex-Constituent Assembly member named Boetidou provided them with blank new republican passports, which gave them unhindered travel throughout Brittany.The traitor had a stack of these passports in his hand.It is impossible to surprise them."Over 400,000 people religiously guarded the secrecy," Puisse wrote. This quadrilateral borders the line from Sables to Tourards in the south, the line from Tourards to Saumur and the River Tuars in the east, the Loire River in the north, and the Atlantic Ocean in the west.It seems to share a nervous system, and when a certain place trembles, the whole area shakes.In an instant the news spread from Noir-Montier to Luçon.What happened at the Croix-Morino camp was known to the Laloux camp, like birds carrying messages.On the 7th of the third year of the Republic, Osh wrote: "They really seem to have a telegram." These are cliques, as in Scotland, where each parish has its own head.My father was in the war so I can talk about it. Five of their war lives Many have only ridges.There are many high-end shotguns.The poachers of Boca Fever and the smugglers of Losher are the most deft marksmen in the world.They are strange, fearsome and brave fighters.As soon as the decree to recruit 300,000 people was promulgated, alarm bells rang in six hundred villages, and fires broke out everywhere.The rebellion erupted on the same day in Plitto and Anjou, but the first rumblings were heard on the Kelbad heath on July 8, 1792, a month before August 10.Alain Le Delais was the forerunner of La Roche-Jacquelin and Jean Juin, but his name is forgotten today.Bao Huangzhen forced all able-bodied men to follow them, otherwise they would be executed.They requisitioned carts, animals that pulled them, and provisions.Soon Sappino recruited 3,000 soldiers, Catellino 10,000, Stoffrey 20,000 soldiers, and Charette became the master of Noirmontier.Rebellion by the Paomerites: Vicomte de Cébault in Upper Anjou, Chevalier de Diezy between Vilain and the Loire, Tristan the Hermit in Bonces, Gaston the Barber in Gemenne, Priest Bell Nier is everywhere else.It doesn't take much to incite so many people.A large black cat was placed in the tabernacle of a sworn parish priest, the so-called sworn priest, and when the cat jumped out during Mass, the peasants exclaimed, "This is the devil!" and the whole village They all rioted.From the confessional of the cathedral spewed blazing fire.To attack the blues, across ravines, they used Felt's poles, fifteen feet long, for fight and flight.When the peasants attacked the phalanx of the Republican Army, they sometimes encountered a cross or a small church on the battlefield, and they knelt down to the ground in spite of the fierce battle, and prayed loudly under the enemy's strafing fire.Those lucky enough to be alive rose up after saying the rosary and threw themselves on the enemy.Oh, what a giant!They can run while reloading, that's what they do.They believe what you want them to believe.Some priests strangled the necks of other priests with string, and said to the peasants, "These beheaded men are raised." The peasants had their own sense of honor.They admired Fiske, the republican standard-bearer who clung to the flagpole as he fell under the knife.Peasants, too, were fond of jeering, calling married republican clergymen "the bonnets who became sans-culottes."They were at first afraid of the earth, but they rushed upon it with long roots, and captured several cannon, the first being a beautiful bronze gun, which they named the "Preacher"; Cast during the period, engraved with Richelieu's coat of arms and the Madonna, they called it "Marie-Janne".They lost Marie-Jane when they lost Fontenay, around which six hundred determined peasants fell; and then they recaptured Fontenay in order to recapture Marie-Jane, and clothed it with Lily Citi, who puts flowers on it, lets passing women kiss it.However, two cannons are too few.Marie-Jane was captured by Stoffrey, and Caterino, jealous, set out from Paenmanges, attacked Jalais, and captured the third cannon.Forrest attacked Saint-Florent again and captured a fourth cannon.The other two chiefs, Shoup and Saint-Pol, were more ingenious, cutting down tree trunks to disguise themselves as cannons, and using dummies as gunners, they managed to drive back the blue army at Maleuil with the artillery they daringly mocked. .This is their golden age.Later, when Charbos defeated Lamar Saunière, the peasants threw down thirty-two cannon bearing the English arms on the ignominious field, and England paid the French princes to "... Your Excellency provides the funds, because it is said to be proper to Mr. Pitt," wrote Landiat on May 10, 1794."The rebels shouted 'Long live the British!'" said Molinet in his report on the 11th of March. The peasants were still looting.These devout believers are thieves.The savage has some vices, which civilization later reproaches. ① That is, the priests became revolutionaries.The round banner is the symbol of the priest.This is a wisecrack using homophonics: sans-culottes and sans-calottes. Puyse wrote on page 187 of the second volume of "Memoirs": "I have repeatedly saved the village of Prairand from being robbed." On page 434, he said that his own people would not enter Montfort: "I went around so that the house of the Jacobins would not be robbed." Missed Gravel, ransacked Verdieu.Country folk who supported the Blues were called the "Jacobins" and shot to death.They like to kill like soldiers, and like to slaughter like bandits. They take pleasure in shooting "fools", that is, citizens, and call it "open meat".At Fontenay one of them, the Abbe Barbotin, hacked an old man to death with his saber.At Saint-Germain-Suril, one of the noble captains shot the village prosecutor and took his watch.At Marcus they carried out quantitative executions of republicans, thirty a day for five weeks.Every thirty people is called a "string".They let this group of people stand in front of the dug pit, and then fired with guns, and those who were shot fell into the pit, and sometimes they did not die, but they were buried immediately.We checked these customs.Regional Speaker De Belle had both hands amputated.They put a special kind of sharp handcuffs on the Blue Army prisoners and shot them to death in public squares with hunting horns.Charette's signature is "Fraternity - Riding Charette". He tied a handkerchief on his head like a horse. It was he who burned down the city of Pornic and burned the residents to death in their houses.Carrière was terrible during this period.Fear against terror.The Breton rebel was almost identical to the Greek rebel: tunic, leggings, and fat trousers like a kilt, with a spear slung across his back.He is like a bandit. Henri de La Roche-Jacqueline went to war at the age of twenty-one with long roots and two pistols.The Vendée army had one hundred and fifty-four divisions.They waged a regular siege and besieged Bresuilda for three days.On one Good Friday, ten thousand peasants bombarded the city of Sable with cannon.They actually destroyed fourteen Republic military camps between Montigne and Courbeweil in one day.On the high walls of Tourards, someone heard this wonderful conversation between La Roche-Jacquelin and a young man: "Carl!" "Here I am." "Let me step on your shoulders." "Come up." "Your gun." "Take it." So La Roche-Jaclan jumped into the city and captured the fortress that had been besieged by Duguesclin in the past without ladders.The Vendée loved bullets more than Louis d'Or.They cry when they lose sight of the bell tower of their village. Escaping was the easiest thing for them, and the captain shouted: "Throw away the clogs and run with the guns!" When they ran out of ammunition, they chanted and prayed, and then went to grab the ammunition carts of the Republican artillery; • Herbe asked the British for ammunition.When the enemy approached, the Vendée hid the wounded in the fields where the wheat grew high or in the thick vines, and waited until the fighting was over to fetch them.They had no uniforms, they wore rags, peasants and nobles alike, and wore what they could get.Roger Moulinier wore a turban and an ancient cavalry jacket from La Fleche's costume shop.De Beauvillier wore a public prosecutor's coat and a bonnet over a bonnet.All wear shoulder straps and white belts.Levels are indicated by bow ties.Stoffrey has a red knot, La Roche-Jacqueline a black knot.Wimpfant, a semi-Girondin who never came out of Normandy, wore the armbands of the Gangsta Revolutionaries.There were also women in the procession: Madame de Lescure, who later became Madame La Roche-Acquelin; Thérèce de Moglien, mistress of Larouari, who burned the lists of parish chiefs; Mrs. Rochefoucauld, she was young and beautiful, holding a saber to gather the peasants in front of the big tower of the castle of Mont Rousseau; and Antoinette Adame, who was called the knight of Adame, she was brave and fearless, and was later captured, the enemy When he shot her, let her stand out of respect.This epic age is brutal.People turned into thugs.Madame de Lescure deliberately let her mount fall over the republicans who had withdrawn from the battle and fell to the ground, saying that they were "dead people", but they might actually be wounded.Men betray sometimes, women never betray.Mademoiselle Fleury at the Théâtre de France turns from Larou Ali to Marat, but it is out of love.Captains are often just as ignorant as soldiers.Mr. de Sappino often misspelled o and au.The chiefs are hostile to each other.The captains in the Mare area shouted: "Down with the people of the plateau!" They did not have many cavalry, and it was difficult to form a company."A man would gladly give me two sons, but if I asked him for a horse, he would grow cold," Puyse wrote. Scythes, lances old and new, poaching knives, long iron rods, stubby sticks with iron plates and nails, these were their weapons.Some had crosses made from two dead bones hanging on their chests.They came roaring and attacking, coming suddenly from all sides, emerging from woods, hills, young forests, sunken roads, spreading out into hooks, killing, destroying, destroying, and disappearing without a trace.As they passed through republican towns, they felled the tree of liberty, set it on fire, and danced around it.All their operations take place at night.It is the habit of the Vendée to always catch the other party by surprise.They can walk sixty kilometers without making a sound, without stepping on a blade of grass.In the evening the chiefs held a pre-battle meeting to decide which Republican post to attack the next morning, and then they loaded their bullets, said their prayers, took off their wooden shoes, and walked barefoot on the heather and bitter vines without making a sound or speaking , hold your breath, and walk in the night like a cat. There were at least half a million rebels in the Vendée, including women and children.Half a million fighters, this is the number provided by Tifan de la Rouali. The Vendée was assisted by the Federalists, with the Girondins as accomplices.Lozère sent 30,000 people to Bocaage.The five provinces of Brittany and the three of Normandy form the Union of Eight Provinces.Everler was allied with the city of Gun, and Mayor Chaumont and the celebrity Gardamba were Everler's representatives in the rebel army.Bizot of Cone, Gorza and Barbaru, Brissot of Moulins, County San of Lyon, Labo Saint-Étienne of Nîmes, Merlin and Duchâtel of Brittany This fire blows. There are two Vendées: the Grand Vendée for forest warfare and the Petit Vendée for jungle warfare. This is the difference between Charette and Jean Juin.The Petit Vendée is childish, the Grand Vendée corrupt.Petit Vendée is better.Charette became a marquis, a lieutenant general in the royal army, and was awarded the Grand Cross of St. Louis.Jean? Juan is still Jean? Juan.Charette is almost a brigand, Jean-Lyon is almost a knight-errant. As for the noble chiefs: Bonchamp, Lescure, La Roche-Jaclin, they were wrong.A Catholic army is a grotesque attempt, sure to invite disaster.Is it not absurd to suppose that a peasant storm hits Paris, that allied armies of villages and towns besiege sages, that hymns and prayers are sung beside the Marseillaise, and wits are trampled upon with wooden shoes?Le Mans and Savney punished this madness.The Vendée could not cross the Loire.The Vendée is omnipotent, except the Loire River. Civil wars are not territorial grabs.Caesar crossed the Rhine to complete his career, Napoleon crossed the Rhine to expand his military exploits, and La Roche-acqueline crossed the Loire but was destroyed. The real Vendée rebellion is the rebellion in the Vendée region.There it is invulnerable, not only that, it is elusive. At home the Vendée are smugglers, peasants, soldiers, shepherds, poachers, freelancers.Bell Ringer, Peasant, Spy, Murderer, Devout, Beast of the Woods. La Roche-Acqueline is only Achilles, Jean Juin is Proteus. ①The hero in Homer's epic poem "Ilion" has only his heels that are invulnerable. ②The god of the sea in Greek mythology, who can transform at will. The Vendée rebellion was aborted.Others succeeded, such as in Switzerland.There is a difference between the rebellion of the Swiss in the mountains and the rebellion of the Vendée in the forest.Circumstances are almost always decisive, so the Swiss fight over ideals, the Vendée over prejudices.The former flies, the latter crawls; the former fights for man, the latter for solitude; the former demands liberty, the latter isolates; the former defends the town, the latter the parish.The heroes of Mora yell: "Town! Town!" The former faced the cliff, the latter faced the mud puddle; in the dark. The education of mountains and valleys is very different. Mountains are fortresses, forests are traps, the former breeds courage, the latter breeds cunning.The ancients let the gods live on the top of the mountain, and let the forest god live in the thorn bushes.Lin Shen is a half-human, half-beast savage.In the free country there are the Apennines, the Alps, the Pyrenees, and Olympia.Banas is the mountain.Mont Blanc was a great assistant to William Tell.In Indian poetry, the gods wage a magnificent struggle against darkness, and beyond and above the struggle stands the Himalayas. Greece, Spain, Italy, Switzerland are symbolized by mountains, Cimmery, Germania or Brittany by woods.Forests are savage. ③Swiss legendary hero in the fourteenth century. Terrain leads to many actions of man, it is man's accomplice far beyond our imagination.When you are faced with a dangerous natural environment, you really want to excuse people and blame nature.You feel nature secretly provoking you.Sometimes the desert poisons the consciousness, especially the uncivilized one.Consciousness can be a giant, which produced Socrates and Jesus; it can also be Linde, which produced Atreus and Judas.Intolerant consciousness soon becomes a reptile on the ground.Dark woods, thorns and thorns, swamps under trees, this is its destined environment, which mysteriously penetrates consciousness with evil thoughts. Unreal visions, unexplainable apparitions, and astonishment of time and space keep people in a half-religious, half-beastly fear. Such fears lead to superstition in ordinary times and atrocities in times of stress.Illusions hold torches to light the way for murder. Bandits are always in the dark.The wonder of nature has a duality that dazzles the wise and blinds the savage.Man is ignorant, and the desert is full of illusions, and now, to the darkness of intellect, is added the darkness of solitude, and in him appears the abyss.Certain rocks, certain gullies, certain coppices, certain twilight solitary fences through the woods, prompt men to do madness and cruelty.We can even say that certain locations have ulterior motives. ① A character in Greek mythology who hates his brother. How much misery the dark hill between Bannion and Prairand had seen! A wide field of vision leads the mind to a large mind, while a narrow field of view produces narrowness, so sometimes a big heart is forced to become a small mind, as Jean Juan is an example. One-sided thinking hates comprehensive thinking, and that is the struggle over progress. Homeland, fatherland, these two words sum up all the Vendée wars, the struggle between partial ideas and general ideas, peasants and patriots. Seven Vendées ended Brittany Brittany has always been a rebel.For two thousand years, it rebelled against the right every time, but the last time it was wrong.However, whether it is against the revolution or against the monarchy, against the special representative or against the governors such as the duke and ministers, against the coupons or against the salt tax, and no matter who is fighting, is Nicola Lapin, François? De Ranou, Captain Pruviot, Madame de Laganache, or Stoffrey, Coclo, Le Chandrière de Pierreville, whether under the leadership of M. de Rohan Against the King or for the King under the leadership of M. de la Roche-Jacquelin, Brittany was always fighting the same war, the local against the central. These ancient provinces are a backwater that hates flow.Instead of reviving them, the wind enrages them. The Finistère is the terminus of France, where the sphere of man ends, where the march of centuries ceases. "Stop!" This is the roar of the ocean to the land, of barbarism to civilization.Whenever Paris, the center, made a push, whether dynastic or republican, whether toward despotism or toward liberty, it was new to Brittany, and it opposed it.Don't bother us!What do you want to do?The Mare area took up the long-handled fork, and the Bocaage area took up the short gun.All our attempts, all our innovations in legislation and education, our encyclopaedias, our philosophies, our geniuses, our glories have all run aground before Uru.The alarm bells of Bazouges threaten the French Revolution, the moors of Faou revolt against the noisy public squares, and the bells of the Haut Meadows declare war on the towers of the Louvre. ①A town in northern Brittany.Bazure, Fau, and Gao Ranch in the following are located in the south, west, and east, respectively. Terrible deafness. The Vendée Rebellion was a sad misunderstanding. Giant brawls, large-scale unprovoked quarrels, endless rebellions, they left a name in history, a black name known to everyone: Vendée.Vendée worked hard for those who escaped, was loyal to the selfish, and went through fire and water for the cowardly; Vendée had no scheming, no strategy, no tactics, no plan, no goal, no leader, and no responsibility; Vendée understood that will can be turned into incompetence; The Vendée was both chivalrous and brutal; the Vendée was the most absurd, it built the palisades to keep the light from illuminating the dark; resist.Eight years of terror, fourteen provinces devastated, fields barren, crops destroyed, villages burned, cities reduced to ruins, houses looted, women and children massacred, huts burned, hearts pierced by swords, civilized The havoc that Mr. Pitt expected, this is this war, this mindless attempt at regicide. In short, the Vendee has shown that the shadows of old Breton must be pierced from every direction, these thorns must be pierced from every corner with arrows of light, and so the Vendee promotes progress.Disasters often arrange things in dark ways.