JACQUES See also:

• JACQUES CATHELINEAU (1759—1793)

CATHELINEAU (1759—1793)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French Vendean chieftain during the Revolution, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• TIN (Lat.- stannum, whence the chemical symbol " Sn "; atomic weight =117.6, 0=16)

Tin-en-Manges, in the See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country now forming the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of See also:

• MAINE
• MAINE, ANNE LOUISE BENEDICTE DE BOURBON
• MAINE, SIR HENRY JAMES SUMNER (1822–1888)

Maine-et-See also:

• LOIRE

Loire . He became well known in the country of See also:

• ANJOU

Anjou, over which he travelled as a pedlar and dealer in See also:

• CONTRABAND (Fr. contrebande, from contra, against, and bannum, Low Lat. for " proclamation ")

contraband goods . His See also:

• PHYSICAL

physical strength and his See also:

• GREAT

great piety gave him considerable ascendancy over the peasants, who surnamed him " the See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint of Anjou." In the first years of the Revolution, See also:

• CATHELINEAU, JACQUES (1759—1793)

Cathelineau listened to the exhortations of See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic priests and royalist emigres, and joined the insurrection provoked by them against the revolutionary See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government . See also:

• COLLECTING

Collecting a See also:

• BAND

band of peasants and smugglers, he took the See also:

• CHATEAU (from Lat. castellum, fortress, through O. Fr. chastel, chasteau)

chateau of Gallais, where he captured a See also:

• CANNON (a word common to Romance languages, from the Lat. canna, a reed, tube, with the addition of the augmentative termination -on, -one)

cannon, christened by the Vendeans the " Missionary "; he then took the towns of Chemille, See also:

• CHOLET

Cholet, Vihicrs and Chalonnes (See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1793) . His companions committed atrocities which brought upon them terrible See also:

• REPRISALS (Fr. represailles, from reprendre; Lat. reprehendere, to take back)

reprisals on the See also:

• PART

part of the o Republicans . Meanwhile Cathelineau's troops increased, and he combined with the other Vendean chiefs, such as N . See also:

• STOFFLET, JEAN NICOLAS (1751-1796)

Stofflet and Gigot d'Elbee, taking the towns of Beaupreau, Fontenay and See also:

• SAUMUR

Saumur . The first successes of the Vendeans were due to the fact that the Republicans had not expected an insurrection . When the resistance to the insurgents became more serious, See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences arose among their leaders . To avoid these rivalries, it is thought that Cathelineau was named generalissimo of the rebels, though his authority over the undisciplined troops was not increased by the new See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office . In 1793 all the Royalist forces tried to See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes . Cathelineau entered the See also:

• TOWN

town in spite of the resistance of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General J .

B . C . Canclaux, but he was killed, and the Vendean See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke up . Numerous relatives of Cathelineau also perished in the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war of La See also:

• VENDEE
• VENDEE, WARS OF THE

Vendee . His See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson, See also:

• HENRI

Henri de Cathelineau, figured in the war of 187o between See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France and See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany (see also VENDEE; See also:

• CHOUANS (a Bas-Breton word signifying screech-owls)

CHOUANS) . See C . See also:

• PORT

Port, See also:

• VIE

Vie de J . Cathelineau (1882) ; " La Legende de Cathelineau " in the See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

review La Revolution francaise, vol. See also:

• XXIV

xxiv . ; See also:

• LES

Les Origines de la' Vendee (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1888, 2 vols.); Dictionnaire historique de Maine-et-Loire; Cretineau-Joly, Histoire de la Vendee militazre; Th . Muret, Vie populaire de Cathelineau (1845) . (R .