| BIGpedia - Jacques Cathelineau - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online (364 words) |
 | His physical strength and his great piety gave him considerable ascendancy over the peasants, who surnamed him the saint of Anjou In the first years of the Revolution, Cathelineau listened to the exhortations of Catholic priests and royalist emigrés, and joined the insurrection provoked by them against the revolutionary government. |
| Collecting a band of peasants and smugglers, he took the château of Gallais, where he captured a cannon, christened by the Vendéans the "Missionary"; he then took the towns of Chemill, Cholet, Vihiers and Chalonnes (March 1793). |
| His companions committed atrocities which brought upon them terrible reprisals on the part of the Republicans. |
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