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CADOUDAL, GEORGES (1771-1804)

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CADOUDAL, GEORGES (1771-1804) , See also:leader of the See also:Chouans during the See also:French Revolution, was See also:born in 1771 near See also:Auray. He had received a See also:fair See also:education, and when the Revolution See also:broke out he remained true to his royalist and See also:Catholic teaching. From 1793 he organized a See also:rebellion in the See also:Morbihan against the revolutionary See also:government. It was quickly suppressed and he there-upon joined the See also:army of the revolted Vendeans, taking See also:part in the battles of Le Mans and of Savenay in See also:December 1793. Returning to Morbihan, he was arrested, and imprisoned at See also:Brest. He succeeded, however, in escaping, and began again the struggle against the Revolution. In spite of the defeat of his arty, and of the fact that he was forced several times to take See also:refuge in See also:England, Cadoudal did not cease both to wage See also:war and to See also:con-See also:spire in favour of the royalist pretenders. He refused to come to any understanding with the government, although offers were made to him by See also:Bonaparte, who admired his skill and his obstinate See also:energy. From 'Soo it was impossible for Cadoudal to continue to wage open war, so he took altogether to plotting. He was indirectly concerned in the See also:attempt made by See also:Saint. See also:Regent in the See also:rue Sainte Nicaise on the See also:life of the First See also:Consul, in December ',Soo, and fled to England again. In 1803 he returned to See also:France to undertake a new attempt against Bonaparte.

Though watched for by the See also:

police, he succeeded in eluding them for six months, but was at length arrested. Found guilty and condemned to See also:death, he refused to ask for See also:pardon and was executed in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:June 1804, along with eleven of his companions. He is often called simply Georges. See Proces de Georges, See also:Moreau et See also:Pichegru (Paris, 1804, 8 vols. 8vo) ; the Mimoires of See also:Bourrienne, of See also:Hyde de See also:Neuville and of Rohu; Lenotre, Tournebut (on the See also:arrest); Lejean, Biographie bretonne; and the bibliography to the See also:article See also:VENDEE.

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