Anti-revolutionary royalist activist with musket. Chouans operated on the left bank of the Loire, Vendeens on the right bank. Named for Jean Chouan, the silent one of four brothers, an insurrectionist. Le Chouan. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Henri Baron from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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