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Chouan   Listen
noun
Chouan  n.  One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.






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"Chouan" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mme. de Dey's son to her house of a night. The mayor had a belief in a priest who had refused the oath, a refugee from La Vendee; but this left him not a little embarrassed how to account for the purchase of a hare on a Friday. The president of the district had strong leanings toward a Chouan chief, or a Vendean leader hotly pursued. Others voted for a noble escaped from the prisons of Paris. In short, one and all suspected that the Countess had been guilty of some piece of generosity that the law of those days defined as a crime, an offense that was ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne



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