postcard. 216. CHARETTE DE LA CONTRIE, (François Althanase), Born in 1763, in Couffè (Brittany). Was Lieutenant de Vaisseau, when the Vendée rose up in 1793, he joined Cathelineau and attended the sieges of Nantes and Luçon. The discord coming he abruptly left the army with his troops and seized the Republican Camp of St-Christophe (1794), Pursued by Hoche and taken prisoner, he was shot in Nantes (March 1796). ND Photo Collections

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