378.00 USD
Story of the War in La Vendee and the Little Chouannerie
by George J. Hill, M.A
London: Burns & Oates, Ld.
New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benzinger Brothers
This extremely rare book about the resistance of the French Revolution is in great condition. The spine is leather with gold lettering and there is minimal wear on the cover. There is a stamp from the "Convent of the Assumption, Ramsgate, Kent. School Library". Which is pretty neat in itself:
"The Convent of the Assumption, West cliff, erected in 1873, at a cost of about £16,000, was enlarged in 1890, and has been occupied since 1878 by 16 nuns, who conduct a school for Catholic children of the higher classes; a limited number of lady boarders are received."
The back blank page is torn. The pages have very minimal foxing and the binding is very tight. Overall this book is in nice shape. I wish I knew more about it, but I have not been able to find another copy for sale.
A little history on the war in La Vendee
"The history of the Vendée Wars was not written by the victors, it was completely written out of French history, and until recently denied by the French government, it is still not part of the school history curriculum, but is well documented. When Solzhenitsyn opened the official Vendée Memorial at Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne in 1993 the event was ignored by central government, as well as by most of the mainstream French media.
The war was the first 'total war' in modern history, in which men, women and children were involved. It was also the first modern war in which regular troops were repeatedly beaten by mainly unarmed (no firearms) peasants. It was a savage affair in which each side were guilty of atrocities. The name of the region at that time was Bas-Poitou, and it was a poor rural region. As well as peasants, it was inhabited by impoverished aristocrats, petit bourgeoisies and poor priests; so the social inequalities were less marked here than elsewhere in France.
The revolution of 1789 was at first full of hope, with a genuine wish for reform, even the English hailed it as a triumph of reason over superstition and privilege. That summer, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was adopted by the new National Assembly."
http://www.inthevendee.com/vendee-wars/vendee-wars.html