The history of the Vendée massacre, the first genocide of the late modern period

The French Revolution began in 1789. What started as a process to establish a constitutional monarchy turned into something else.

Entangled in words: the Vendée genocide, liberals, and patriots
The problem of whitewashing the Jacobin left and what happened in France in 1793

The process soon took on a republican, dictatorial, and anti-Catholic character, under the leadership of the most radical sectors of the revolutionaries: the Jacobins. Led by such ruthless figures as Maximilien Robespierre, they imposed a dictatorship, the Jacobin Terror (1793-1794), which perpetrated the first genocide of the Modern Age: the Vendée, a mass crime that the French Republic still refuses to officially acknowledge.

Academia Play published an excellent video yesterday explaining how this massacre unfolded, who its main perpetrators were, and the brutal methods they used to exterminate tens of thousands of people, including women, children, and the elderly, in a process directly planned by the State from the city of Paris. Horrid acts that should not be forgotten (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):

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Image: "The drownings in the Loire during the Reign of Terror, 1793." Engraving by Maurand after De La Charlerie.