From monsters to myths, this episode unpacks the Vendée with Professor Jean-Clément Martin. One of the foremost authorities on the civil...
Displaced and destitute, the Vendée’s children faced an uncertain future. This episode extra follows their grim paths through prison cells...
Amid the slaughter at Nantes, what did the Convention and Committee of Public Safety know about the mass drownings in the west? This...
From Paris to Moscow, this episode extra further explores whether the Vendée can be classed as genocide. Uncover the competing definitions...
From the mass drownings to hell columns, this episode charts the Republic’s campaign to exterminate the western rebellion. Uncover the...
With mass graves uncovered in 2009, this bonus episode explores the grim aftermath of the Battle of Le Mans. Drawing on forensic evidence...
Searching for salvation, the royalists found hell. Retreat became catastrophe, and battles turned to massacres. This episode explores the...
Unpack the grim fates of Republican generals. From scapegoats like Marcé and Quétineau to the downfall of Nantes’ unlikely saviour...
As the royalists surged through western France, the Republic’s response was pitiful. But when the time came to strike at Paris itself, the...
Baptised and weaponised in the capital’s factional struggles, this episode explores how Parisian politics created “the Vendée.” What began...
Unpack a royalist’s account on the importance of religion in the Vendée, and why the topography of the Vendée was so beneficial to...
The inferno ignites. Arguably the most divisive theatre of the French Revolution, it’s time to return to the west. This episode is a repost...
