Appendix: Saumur
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The 10th-century Château de Saumur, in the region called the Vendée, belonged in 1026 to our Angevin ancestor, Foulques Nerra, who passed it along to the Plantagenets.

Castle and community boast of two relatively recent Battles of Saumur: each, depending on your political leanings, can be seen as a signal patriotic event.
  • In 1793, Catholic royalists in the Vendée spearheaded a counterrevolution and were put down in memorably bloody fashion: estimates of the resulting dead cluster widely about 400,000—something like two-thirds of the number of military casualties that would later result from America’s greatest disaster to date, which we call our Civil War. Mainstream historians1 sympathetic to the Revolution wax legalistic to defend against the persistent accusation2 that the Vendéan Catholics suffered here the first modern genocide. (more, next page)

1Gough, Hugh (December 1987). "Review: Genocide and the Bicentenary: The French Revolution and the Revenge of the Vendee Review: Genocide and the Bicentenary: The French Revolution and the Revenge of the Vendee". The Historical Journal 30 (4).
2Secher, Reynald (1986). Le genocide franco-francais: La Vendee-Venge. Presses universitaires de France.
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