The Vendee Massacre: Europe's forgotten Shoah

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[mainestategop]

An awesome documentary on the Vendee uprising and the massacre of catholics in France in the French Revolution

The Vendee is a taboo in France. It is nearly forgotten but thankfully isn't. In 1793, after the execution of Louis XVI, Catholic Farmers in the Vendee region of France revolted against the newly formed godless republic headed by Robbspierre. The response by the newly created republic was monstrous. Over Half a milllion people, men women children and elderly were put to death by the government for opposing it and for promoting Catholic faith. Very few acknowledged its existence, John Paul II spoke of the Vendee when visiting France to dedicate the anniversary of the baptism of France's King Clovis and Alexander Solzhtyn mentioned it in his works. The Vendee is a shining example of the dangers of trusting government. The term Democide was invented to describe it. The wiping out of entire peoples in the name of ideology.

[2banana]

The first socialist revolution...

Ends in massive slaughtering of its own citizens.

To be repeated everytime it is tried

[DuncanWaring]

Ann Barnhardt’s also discussed this.

Part 1 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaMLoLtFn6s

[katykelly]

Bfl

[vladimir998]

General Westermann reported back to Paris:

“The Vendée is no more ... According to your orders, I have trampled their children beneath our horses’ feet; I have massacred their women, so they will no longer give birth to brigands. I do not have a single prisoner to reproach me. I have exterminated them all.” https://books.google.com/books?id=3PsLXeDflfMC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=The+Vend%C3%A9e+is+no+more+...+According+to+your+orders,+I+have+trampled+their+children+beneath+our+horses%27+feet;+I+have+massacred+their+women,+so+they+will+no+longer+give+birth+to+brigands.+I+do+not+have+a+single+prisoner+to+reproach+me.+I+have+exterminated+them+all&source=bl&ots=DQgs-P6VnD&sig=BB9E58Zvgf9arWLTg35tOoY1XCw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHs__Vn6vNAhVU02MKHU8KApkQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=The%20Vend%C3%A9e%20is%20no%20more%20...%20According%20to%20your%20orders%2C%20I%20have%20trampled%20their%20children%20beneath%20our%20horses’%20feet%3B%20I%20have%20massacred%20their%20women%2C%20so%20they%20will%20no%20longer%20give%20birth%20to%20brigands.%20I%20do%20not%20have%20a%20single%20prisoner%20to%20reproach%20me.%20I%20have%20exterminated%20them%20all&f=false

[DesertRhino]

Monarchy had to go. Monarchs insist that they do not stand for elections, so the only way to remove them is violence. Their own fault.

[Shadow44]

Suppressed to appease the Left. Just like King Louis never being canonized as a martyr.

The Vendée can’t be publicized because it destroys the myth of the French Revolution.

[FreedomPoster]

Tinyurl.com is your friend. Those long URLs really mess up page renders for many.

[mainestategop]

Yup. And coming soon to America G-d forbid...

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo. The French Revolution was extraordinarily different from the American. All the shouts of Liberte! Fraternite! Egalite! in the world won’t change the totalitarian nature of the French Revolution, and the fact that it led directly to Napoleon, Marx, and the 20th Century Communists.

[IWontSubmit]

This: Louis d'Elbée
He is famous for his actions after the Battle of Chemillé, on 11 April 1793: after the insurgents' victory, many of them planned to avenge their dead and slaughter the Republican prisoners (approx. 400). D'Elbée tried to prevent them, and eventually asked them to recite the Our Father, which they did; then, when they had reached the sentence "And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us", he interrupted them with the words: "Do not lie to God!". Moved by this reproach, his men turned away, and d'Elbée was able to save the prisoners. This episode has since become known as "Le Pater d'Elbée" (d'Elbée's Pater Noster).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_d%27Elbée

Louis d'Elbée and his troops subsequently received no mercy from the Revolutionaries...

Draw your own conclusions concerning our times .....

[Tennessee Nana]

but before that there was the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Aug 24, 1572 when the French king and the Catholic Church murdered tens of thousands of Huguenots in Paris and New Rochelle...

The siege on New Rochelle by the French king and Cardinal Richelieu was against the French Protestants also...

[IWontSubmit]

The Drownings at Nantes
(French: Noyades de Nantes) were a series of mass executions by drowning during the Reign of Terror in Nantes, France, that occurred between November 1793 and February 1794. During this period, anyone arrested and jailed for not consistently supporting the Revolution, or suspected of being a royalist sympathizer, especially Catholic priests and nuns, was cast into the Loire and drowned on the orders of Jean-Baptiste Carrier, the representative-on-mission in Nantes. Before the murders ceased, as many as four thousand or more people, including innocent families with women and children, died in what Carrier himself called "the national bathtub."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drownings_at_Nantes

Draw your own conclusions concerning our times

[Pelham]

explaining why my Huguenot ancestors headed for Virginia.

[IWontSubmit]

Those were Catholics that the Revolution eradicated.

[Honorary Serb]

Here’s a similar event that happened in Mexico in the 1920s—the Cristero War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristero_War

http://www.sconews.co.uk/opinion/8644/film-will-bring-cristero-war-to-life/

[Pelham]

The post I was responding to was speaking of the massacre of Huguenots.

[Buttons12]

Don’t know if she mentions it, but the “Great Fear” of 1789 made the Revolution inevitable.

I’m listening now, she talks about a “largely stable” economy and overall “contentment.” But that was not the case in the years leading up to the Revolution. Bad harvests for some years (possibly due to a volcano in Iceland) had the people terrified by 1788. The people started to suspect the government was deliberately making things worse — there was talk of a “famine plot.”

Recommended reading: Great Fear of 1789 by Georges Lefebvre. There’s a paperback edition, English translation. I have one, not very old, so it must be on amazon, and probably a free e-book on google.

[vladimir998]

Thanks.

[Buttons12]

Another great analogy would be the Ukraine. Agricultural, and that’s where the genocide happened in the ‘30s.