NAPOLEON I er 1804 - 1814 NAPOLEON EMPEROR.... Lot 34

NAPOLEON I er 1804 - 1814 NAPOLEON EMPEROR. His laureate head counter-marked with a tiger's head (hcat or owl) and a punch on the eye. R/. FRENCH EMPIRE. Value in a laurel wreath. Underneath, vintages between the different workshop. Edge in hollow DIEU PROTEGE LA FRANCE. ♦ Gad 384; F 307 5 Francs silver countermarked Chouans 1813 L = Bayonne VF. The Chouannerie is a civil war which opposed Republicans and Royalists in the west of France, in Brittany, in Maine, Anjou and Normandy, during the French Revolution. It is closely linked to the Vendée war which was on the left bank of the Loire, the whole of these two conflicts being sometimes known under the name of "wars of the West ". A first attempt of insurrection was led in 1791 by the Breton Association in order to defend the monarchy and to the laws and customs of Brittany, which had been abolished in 1789. But the uprising of an important part of of the population of the West and its swing in the counter-revolution is due mainly to the civil constitution of the clergy and to the raising of 300,000 men by the Convention. The first clashes broke out in 1792, evolving into a jacquerie then in guerrilla warfare and finally in pitched battles before ending with the victory of the Republicans in 1800. Other peasant uprisings, less important and shorter, took place in other departments, notably in Aveyron and Lozère, and were also called Chouannerie. A small Chouannerie broke out again in 1815 during the Hundred Days and a final uprising took place during the Legitimist insurrection of 1832. It is highly recommended to take an interest in the publication by François de Callataý and Jean-Baptiste Forestier "Les contremarques au tigre sur les monnaies napoléoniennes" published in 2004 in the Revue numismatique 6e série Tome 160 pp. 343-358