Rodama: a blog of 18th-century & Revolutionary France

 Jules Girardet (1856–1946). General de Lescure, wounded, crossing the Loire from Saint-Florent with his defeated army Oil on canvas, signed...

 [continued from previous post]   17th-19th October 1793:  The Army of the Vendée crosses the Loire If Saint-Florent saw the beginning of th...

 On the way back from Nantes to Dieppe we stopped off at Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, one of the key "places of memory" of the War in t...

    In January 1794 the Vendéen general d'Elbée was executed by Republican Troops in the square outside the castle on the "presqu...

  While the soul of the Vendée is believed to rest at the Memorial of Les-Lucs-sur-Boulogne, its spirit is said to exude from La Chabotterie...

  It was a bright sunny afternoon when we visited  Clisson, thirty kilometres south of Nantes.  Thanks to the sculptor Frédéric Lamot, who t...

  The chapel After visiting the  Mémorial,  we crossed the little river and followed the "chemin de la mémoire" up to the 19th-cen...

After leaving the Historial , we visited the  Mémorial de la Vendée, just a few minutes from the museum, but oddly detached from it.   The e...

     In order to ensure a balanced interpretation, the  Historial  has elected  to separate its presentation of the events of the war in the...

  This summer we spent three days visiting some of the sites of the war in the Vendée, using an airport hotel on the Nantes periphérique as...