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France - History - Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832

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  • Charles-Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, a Royalist leader, on his deathbed after the battle of Cholet, requests that captured Republican soldiers be spared execution. Etching by A. Burdet, 1845, after D. Raffet, 1841.
  • General Georges Mouton sits perched on an enormous clyster; representing his use of a prototype water-cannon in quelling an uprising. Lithograph after A. Desperret after Charles Philipon, c. 1831.
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    General Georges Mouton sits perched on an enormous clyster; representing his use of a prototype water-cannon in quelling an uprising. Lithograph after A. Desperret after Charles Philipon, c. 1831.

    Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862. | Date: 1831 | Reference: 16445i
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    Charles-Melchior Artus de Bonchamps, a Royalist leader, on his deathbed after the battle of Cholet, requests that captured Republican soldiers be spared execution. Etching by A. Burdet, 1845, after D. Raffet, 1841.

    Raffet, Denis Auguste Marie, 1804-1860. | Date: [1862] | Reference: 43666i
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