15 Facts About Les Chouans

Royalist sentiment did not evaporate, however, and in Brittany, violence between the two sides – "Blue" Revolutionaries against "White" Les Chouans – continued as the Chouannerie, even when Napoleon took power in 1799.

The Bonaparte forces responded as the republic had, and the Les Chouans were defeated – although political divisions and resentment lingered for more than a century.

Les Chouans's novels captured the ebb and flow of society, and he demonstrated the far-reaching impact of major historical changes.

Les Chouans had engaged in a series of ill-fated speculative investments, which left him in considerable debt.

Les Chouans spent several weeks learning about the insurrection.

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Les Chouans pored over his host's books and interviewed the townspeople about their experiences during the time of the uprising.

Les Chouans wandered around the city, taking in details to use in his descriptions of the landscape.

Les Chouans had been corresponding with Ewelina Hanska, who wrote to him anonymously in 1832.

Les Chouans had written two years earlier to Hanska: "There's no doubt about it – it is a magnificent poem.

Les Chouans's discovers her folly too late and tries, unsuccessfully, to save her husband the day after their marriage.

Les Chouans considered Scott's view of women unrefined, and believed this led to a stale representation of human behavior as a result.

Les Chouans's represents revenge and hatred chiseled from romantic injury, and has been noted as a rough sketch of the title character in Balzac's La Cousine Bette.

Les Chouans gives up the cause for Marie, but only as a result of an unclear series of events, the product of everyone's intertwined double-crossing.

Les Chouans is considered Balzac's first real success as a writer – a milestone for which he was prepared, evidenced by his willingness to sign his own name.

Saintsbury proclaims that publishing Les Chouans was how he "first emerged from the purgatory of anonymous hack-writing.