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Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein

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Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein

Memoirs of the Marchioness de La Rochejaquelein

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Marie-Louise-Victoire Marquise de La Rochejaquelein
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Walter Scott
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February 2011
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    Marie-Louise Victoire de Donnissan, Marquise de la Rochejaquelein (1772–1857) was brought up at Versailles, a god-daughter to Louis XVI. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, she married her cousin, the Marquis de Lescure. After the execution of the king, she accompanied Lescure to La Vendée where a Royalist insurrection was waged from 1793 to 1796. Widowed in 1793, she later married Lescure's cousin, Louis, Marquis de La Rochejacquelein, brother of one of the Royalist leaders. Her memoir, first published in 1815 and translated and reprinted many times, remains one of the most authentic records of this period. Although understandably partisan, she reports atrocities carried out by both sides with great immediacy. This reissue is taken from the 1827 Edinburgh edition, with a preface by Sir Walter Scott. Scott draws parallels between the Vendéen insurrection and the civil war in Scotland waged by the Covenanters.

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    February 2011
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    9781108025805
    386 pages
    216 × 140 × 22 mm
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Dedication
    • 1. My birth
    • 2. The 10th of August
    • 3. Description of the Bocage
    • 4. Commencement of the war
    • 5. Retreat of the army of Anjou
    • 6. The Vendeens ocupy Bressuire
    • 7. Thouars, Parthenay, and Chataigneraie taken
    • 8. Formation of the Superior Council
    • 9. Taking of Angers
    • 10. Retaking of Chatillon
    • 11. Arrival of M. de Tinteniac
    • 12. Battles of La Roche Erigne, martigne, Doue, Thouars, Coron, Beaulieu, Torfou, Montaigu, St. Fulgent
    • 13. Battle of Moulin aux Chevres
    • 14. Passage of the Loire
    • 15. Battles between Laval and Chateau-Gonthier
    • 16. Arrival of two emigrants sent from England
    • 17. Battle of Dol
    • 18. Return to La Fleche
    • 19. Attempt to repass the Loire
    • 20. Hospitality of the Bretons
    • 21. Abode at the Chateau of Dreneuf
    • 22. The amnesty
    • 23. An account of the fate of the different Vendeen officers who continued the war
    • Supplement.
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