« But the counter-revolution is not only a series of facts, it is also a state of mind, a sensitivity, a culture, a representation of the world, in short an ideology. »
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Jean-Clément Martin
Dictionary of the Counter-Revolution |
Jean-Clément Martin
Dictionary of the Counter-Revolution
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« The Vendée has become the symbol of the struggle between the left and the right, rurality and the city, archaism and modernity, the region - the small part - and the nation - the majority - finally without omitting the harmony of the active countryside and the disorder of the great industrial city, the freedom to believe and think and the tyranny of the state. P. 169. »
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution |
Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution
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« P. Marambaud, an advocate of the Vendean cause, studying the Lucs massacre, concluded that the quarrel over "genocide" was "uninteresting" and that it was unnecessary to use the words "too strong", while maintaining that genocide or massacre, "the ordeal remains the same." S. 67 »
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Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution |
Jean-Clément Martin
The Vendée and the Revolution
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