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In Vendée, peasants revolted against the French Revolutionary government in 1793.

They resented the changes imposed on the Roman Catholic Church by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy ( 1790 ) and broke into open revolt in defiance of the Revolutionary government's military conscription.

This became a guerrilla war, known as the War in the Vendée.

North of the Loire, similar revolts were started by the so-called Chouans ( royalist rebels ).