Armée catholique et royale de Normandie
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Armée catholique et royale de Normandie |
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 One of the standards held |
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| active | 1795 to 1800 |
| Country |
 France
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| Type | Chouan |
| Strength | 5,000 to 10,000 |
| Patron saint | Saint-Maurice d'Agaune |
| motto | La religion, le roi ou la mort! |
| Colours | White |
| Butcher | • Battle of Tinchebray (1796) • Battle of l'Auberge-neuve • Battle of Val de Préaux • Battle of Grand-Celland • Battle of Petit-Celland • Battle of Vire • Battle of Lorey • Battle of Saint-James |
The Armée catholique royale de Normandie sometimes simply called Armée royale de Normandie , (Catholic-Royal Army of Normandy) was an army of the Chouans , commanded by Louis de Frotté, which also had Protestants in its ranks. The "Chouannerie normande" was delimited between the Orne department in the south, the Manche department, the Comté du Maine, and the Mayenne department in the north .
The motto was: La religion, le roi ou la mort! (The religion, the king or death)
After the project to restore the monarchy failed in 1800, the Armée catholique royale de Normandie was dissolved or dissolved by itself. A number of the leaders were executed, but an uncertain number of the ordinary members also fell victim to republican revenge.
Composition 1795 to 1796
- Rod
- Colonel and Commanding Officer: Louis de Frotté
- Commandant en second: Thomas Gabriel François d'Oilliamson
- Personnel strength from 4000 to 5000 men
- Canton Avranches .
- Chef de canton (commanding officer): Jean-Jacques de La Huppe de Larturière , known as Bellavidès
- Canton Saint-Jean-des-Bois , (1500 men).
- Chef de canton: du Lorent († December 14, 1795 in Teilleul )
- Chef de canton: Charles Louis de Godefroy de Bois-Jugan († March 31, 1796 in the Battle of Tinchebray )
- Chef de canton: Étienne Martial Galiot de Mandat, called le Balafré († Caen on September 18, 1798)
- Canton Ambrières-les-Vallées , 1000 men.
- Chef de canton: Charles-Nicolas de Saint-Paul de Lingeard
- Canton Flers , 800 men.
- Chef de canton: François de Marguerye, known as Griffon
Divisions (1799 to 1800)
- Rod
- Maréchal de camp: Louis de Frotté († February 18, 1800)
- Major général ( Chief of Staff ): Thomas Gabriel François d'Oilliamson, known as Gabriel Varon († 1798)
- Adjudant-général (1st representative of the Chief of Staff): Louis Guérin de Bruslart
- Adjudant-major (2nd representative of the Chief of Staff): Michel Moulin, called Michelot
- Personnel strength: 10,000 men
- Division de Saint-Jean-des-Bois , (1200 to 1710 men).
- Colonel: Louvet de Monceaux
- Division d ' Ambrières , (1000 men).
- Colonel: Robert Julien Billard de Veaux, known as Alexandre
- Division d' Avranches , (2000 to 2487 men).
- Colonel: René-François de Ruays, known as Gérard
- Major en second (deputy): de Saint-Quentin (killed on May 31, 1796 at the Battle of Tinchebray )
- Division de Flers , (800 to 1210 men).
- Colonel: Baron Armand-Joseph de Commarque († February 18, 1800)
- Major en second: Louis-René Gallery , Chevalier de L'Air du Bois, called La Terreur
- Division of the Pays d'Auge , Livarot and Vimoutiers , (500 to 3000 men).
- Colonel: Louis Picot, known as Le Boucher des Bleus
- Division of Saint-James , (800 men).
- Colonel: François Julien Morel d'Escures
- Division du Comté du Perche , (~ 500 men).
- Colonel: Nicolas-Philibert Le Chandelier de Pierreville
- Division de Falaise , (1425 men).
- Colonel: Baron Armand-Joseph de Commarque († February 18, 1800), then
- Colonel: You Bruc
- Colonel: M. d'Hugon († February 18, 1800)
- Division de Bayeux , (400 men).
- Colonel: Adrien Bernardin Louis du Poërier de Portbail
- Division de la Presqu'île du Cotentin , (240 men).
- Colonel: Jourdain de Saint-Sauveur
- Division d ' Alençon , (~ 200 to 400 men).
- Colonel: Frotté de La Perrière
- Division de L'Aigle , (~ 100 to 200 men).
- Colonel: Pierre-Louis Brétignères de Courteilles
- Division de Lisieux , (~ 100 men).
- Colonel: Charles César Le Gris de Neuville
- Division d' Aunay-Bocage .
- Colonel: Maurice François Nicolas Filleul, chevalier de Fosse
- Division d' Evreux , (~ 100 men).
- Colonel: Hilarion-Henri Hingant de Saint-Maur
- Division d ' Elbeuf , (~ 50 men).
- Colonel: Michel Louis Placide, marquis d'Aché (ex-officer in the Régiment de Bassigny )
- Division de Conches-en-Ouche , (~ 50 men).
- Colonel: Isaac-Gabriel-Auguste Dumont de Bostaquet, marquis de Lamberville, called du Verdun (fallen February 18, 1800)
- Division de Pont-Audemer , (~ 50 men).
- Colonel: Philippe Charles François Odoard du Hazey
- Division de Louviers , (~ 50 men).
- Colonel: Charles Léonard Odoard du Hazey
- See also
literature
- Léon de La Sicotière Louis de Frotté et les insurrections normandes, 1793–1832. Volume I Plon 1889 pp. 544 to 577
Footnotes
- ↑ Léon de La Sicotière "Louis de Frotté et les insurrections normandes, 1793-1832" Volume I Éditeur Plon 1889 S. 544-577 voir
- ↑ A propos de la geography de la Chouannerie en Basse-Normandie [1]
- ↑ Léon de La Sicotière Louis de Frotté et les insurrections normandes, 1793-1832. Volume I | Plon 1889 p. 315. voir .
- ↑ Deputy Commander
- ↑ Listed as one of the hostages for Louis XVI in August 791
- ↑ Les otages de Louis XVI et de sa famille https://books.google.fr/books ?
- ↑ Mémoires de Michelot Moulin sur la chouannerie normande https://books.google.fr/books ?
- ↑ J. Silve de Ventavon "Louis de Frotté, le Lion de Normandie" 1993
- ↑ the butcher of the blues
- ↑ Annuaire des cinq départements de la Normandie - Eure - 1896 - pages 34 & 35, par Adolphe Vard https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62406567/f50.item.zoom