Шуаны, или Бретань в 1799 году

The action of "Shuang" comes at the end of 1799. Those were the last months of the so-called directors and the first weeks of the Consulate, headed by Napoleon Bonaparte. Power in the country was at that time in the hands of the big bourgeoisie, which took the advantage of the victory of the bourgeois revolution in France. , At the heart of the novel is one of the episodes of the struggle of republican troops from Shuang, headed by the nobles, the royalists and Catholic priests. Rise of Chouans 1799 in the western provinces of the country - Brittany and the Vendee - was the last major outbreak of the royalist rebellion that swept in 1793 the whole north-western France. The rebellion that was inspired from abroad - from England, to supply the rebels with weapons and money.