EditorialSmall temple erected in memory of the Vendee-Uprising against the Revolution. Here, in the " Champs des Martyrs" near Auray in Britanny, captured counter-revolutionary " Chouans" were executed in 1795.
EditorialSmall temple erected in memory of the Vendee-Uprising against the Revolution. Here, in the " Champs des Martyrs" near Auray in Britanny, captured counter-revolutionary " Chouans" were executed in 1795.
EditorialEntrance to the grotto at St. Brandriere and prehistoric stones, dolmen, menhir, obelisk, column at St. Gilles, in the Vendee, France. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's ...
EditorialLouis Lazare Hoche, Revolutionary General des Armees de la Republique Francaise, died at Wetzlar in 1797. Vignette shows Hoche signing the pacification of the Vendee in 1796 in a military tent. Mezzotint drawn and engraved by Jean Duplessis-Bertaux fro...