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Robert Martel
Robert Martel (5 March 1921 - 21 December 1997), nicknamed "the Chouan of Mitidja", was a French-Algerian farmer, counter-revolutionary French nationalist, founder member of the ''Union Française Nord-Africaine'' (UFNA) then leader of the extreme-right-wing political party the ''Mouvement populaire du 13-Mai'' (MP-13) following the May 1958 crisis in France, coup d'état of 13 May 1958. Martel was born in Algiers. His family came from Brittany. He owned 300 hectares of vineyards in the Mitidja plain, in Chebli. He was known as an ''ultra'', a Monarchism, monarchist, a passionate French colonial empire, colonialist and Roman Catholicism, Catholic, with nostalgia for the Vichy France, Vichy régime. A member of the ''Pierre Poujade#Poujadism, poujadiste'' :fr:Union de défense des commerçants et artisans, UDCA shopkeepers' union, in 1954 he joined the '':fr:Groupe des sept''(Group of Seven), a secret anti-independence alliance formed during the Algerian War between leaders of coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chouan
Chouan ("the silent one", or "owl") is a French nickname. It was used as a nom de guerre by the Chouan brothers, most notably Jean Cottereau, better known as Jean Chouan, who led a major revolt in Bas-Maine against the French Revolution. Participants in this revolt – and to some extent French anti-Revolutionary activists in general – came to be known as ''Chouans'', and the revolt itself came to be known as the ''Chouannerie''. Origin of the word Jean Cottereau and his brothers all inherited the nickname Chouan from their father, a clog merchant and ''homme honorable'' from Saint-Berthevin in Mayenne, on the border with Brittany. One view is that this nickname originated from his talent for impersonating the cry of the owl (''chouette'' in French), or specifically the tawny owl, which was called ''chouan'' in old French (French ''chat-huant''), a designation that survived in the western ''langue d'oïl'' dialect spoken in Mayenne. According to another authority, the only r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
