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Chouans

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Insurrectionary royalists in France, in particular Brittany, during the French Revolution, and even for a time under the Empire, when their head-quarters were in London; so named from their muster by night at the sound of the chat-huant , the screech-owl, a nocturnal bird of prey which has a weird cry.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Chouans'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/chouans.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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