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Article: Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2008
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Small-Town Martyrs and Murderers: Religious Revolution and Counterrevolution in Western France, 1774-1914. By Edward J. Woell (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. 292 pp.).
The town of Machecoul is familiar to historians of the French Revolution as the site of one of the most notorious atrocities committed during the war of the Vendee in 1793-94. Woell, who acknowledges that the precise number of those killed will never be known, cites a low-end estimate that at least 160 supporters of the First Republic were murdered while Machecoul was in the hands of counterrevolutionaries during March and April of 1793. The town of 4,000 almost immediately became a ...
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