Chouans

The Chouans were a terror and a scourge to their fellow-citizens: farms burnt, unoffending citizens robbed and murdered, all their possessions seized on and appropriated, stabbing in the dark, and cowardly cruelties of all kinds characterized these "honourable men," who were _guerillas_ and nothing more.

Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre Louisa Stuart Costello 1834

They are nicknamed "Chouans" which means screech owls.

Jacques Cathelineau de Brantigny........................ 2007

The "Chouans" who are strengthened by their victories, decide to advance futrther.

Jacques Cathelineau de Brantigny........................ 2007

They are nicknamed "Chouans" which means screech owls.

Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

The "Chouans" who are strengthened by their victories, decide to advance futrther.

Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

When the resistance to the "Chouans" became more serious, differences arose among their leaders.

Jacques Cathelineau de Brantigny........................ 2007

When the resistance to the "Chouans" became more serious, differences arose among their leaders.

Archive 2007-10-28 de Brantigny........................ 2007

Frotté headed a considerable band of malcontents, and still more formidable were the Breton "Chouans" that followed the peasant leader

The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

General Count de Bourmont, born September 2, 1773, at the Chateau of Bourmont (Maine-et-Loire), amid the "Chouans," had shared their religious and monarchical passions.

The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867

-- [The "Chouans," so called from their use of the cry of the screech-owl (chathouan) as a signal, were the revolted peasants of Brittany and of Maine.] --

The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836