April 5, 2012
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Aurélien Lignereux, « La Première Restauration face à « l’inexplicable Vendée » : la levée de boucliers des 3-5 mai 1814 », Annales de Bretagne et des pays de l’Ouest, ID : 10.4000/abpo.2077
The members of the Convention were confronted by “the inexplicable Vendée”, a people’s uprising against what claimed to be a people’s revolution. Twenty years later, a similar incomprehension disturbs the certainties of the First Restoration: the revolt of the “faithful Vendée” against the authorities recognized by the legitimate king. A month after Napoleon’s abdication, the inhabitants of the south bank of the Loire took up arms to the call of the tocsin; from the 3rd to the 5th of May 1814, thousands of armed men held the country in a frontal opposition to the legal authorities. Who were these rebels? Why and how did such a mobilization occur ? This article proposes a global approach, factual and political, social and cultural, to an event which reveals the regional revolutionary trauma, but is nevertheless largely ignored by historians.