Shuan, or Brittany in 1799. Balzac O.

The action of the Shuanov takes place at the end of 1799. These were the last months of the reign of the so -called directory and the first weeks of the consulate, headed by Napoleon Bonaparte. The power in the country was at that time in the hands of a large bourgeoisie, which took advantage of the victory of the bourgeois revolution in France in its interests.

The novel is based on one of the episodes of the struggle of the republican troops with the Iguans, headed by the nobles-Royalists And Catholic priests. The uprising of the Shuans of 1799 in the western provinces of the country-Brittany and Vandei-was the last serious outbreak of the royalist rebellion, which covered all northwestern France in 1793. This rebellion was inspired from abroad-from England, supplying the rebels and money.