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Chouan
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Chou´an
n.1.One of the royalist insurgents in western France (Brittany, etc.), during and after the French revolution.
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But those Contras, ubiquitously present at every revolution, the Chouans of the VendE[umlaut]e, the Contras of French revolution, the Cossacks of Don, the Contras of the Russian revolution, Savimbi's Unita, the Contras of the Angolan revolution, did have some truth on their side, and expressed some legitimate interests.
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