Battle Of Quiberon (1795)
The invasion of France in 1795 or the Battle of Quiberon was a major landing on the Quiberon, Quiberon peninsula by émigré, counter-revolutionary troops in support of the Chouannerie and Vendée Revolt, beginning on 23 June and finally definitively repulsed on 21 July. It aimed to raise the whole of western France in revolt, bring an end to the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy. The invasion failed; it had a major negative impact, dealing a disastrous blow to the Chouannerie, royalist cause. Preparations Louis XVIII and the comte d’Artois (the future Charles X of France) divided the counter-revolutionary activities and theatres between them - to Louis went political generalities and the region from the Alps to the Pyrénées (including Lyon), and to the comte the western provinces (Vendée, Brittany, Normandy). The comte named Joseph de Puisaye général en chef of Brittany, a good choice since de Puisaye had military talent and political and diplomatic ...
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Paul-Émile Boutigny
Paul-Émile Boutigny (10 March 1853 in Paris – 27 June 1929 in Paris) was a French painter who specialized in military subjects. Life and work His father was a tailor and his mother worked as a seamstress. Following the Franco-Prussian War, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre CabanelOpen Library
''Nos peintres et sculpteurs, graveurs, dessinateurs : portraits et biographies suivis d'une notice sur les Salons français depuis 1673'', les Sociétés de Beaux-Arts, (1897), p. 71 and developed a unique style of battle painting, drawn from personal experience. He was a regular participant in the after 1880. He was decorated with the