From monsters to myths, this episode unpacks the Vendée with Professor Jean-Clément Martin.
One of the foremost authorities on the civil war, Martin shows how factional politics transformed local unrest into a national catastrophe. We explore how chaos and rivalries drove atrocities, why the conflict cannot be defined as genocide, and why “the Terror” should be seen not as historical reality but as a political invention.
Further reading
- La Vendée et la France (1987)
- Robespierre. La fabrication d’un monstre (2016)
- La Terreur. Vérités et légendes (2017)
- “The Vendée, chouannerie, and the State, 1791–99,” in Peter McPhee (ed.), A Companion to the French Revolution (2013)
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