Debout Les Gars - French Royalist Song

Debout Les Gars (Wake up boys) is a French royalist song written in 1899 by French-Breton singer Théodore Botrel. The song tells of the counter revolutionary uprisings that happened in 1793 in various provinces of France (mainly in North-Western France in places such as Brittany and Vandee) to oppose the republican regime that took control over Paris.
Such protests were opposed with fierce by the Republican government. These uprisings took a heavy toll on the republican armies and the heroism of the outnumbered and mostly untrained and under equipped monarchists was cherished for some time in the provinces opposed to the revolution, even if they were unsuccessful.
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The Catholic and Royal Army of Vendée was composed of the three Vendéen armies although that of lower Poitou joined only occasionally.
During the year 1793, the Vendéen army was distinguished into sub-armies: The army of Charette in the Marais breton, the Catholic and Royal Army of Anjou and of Haut-Poitou, and that of Bas-Poitou and Retz country, south of the Loire. The Chouans of the north of the Loire who joined the Vendéens during the Virée de Galerne were named Catholic and Royal Army of Bas-Anjou and of Haute-Bretagne.
The great majority of Vendéen insurgents were peasants, armed with scythes if they did not have rifles, but there were also a great number of artisans, especially in the Mauges region of Anjou.
In reality, those armies were simply groups of fluctuating insurgents led by a chief who had authority over people following his beliefs. The only units with a quasi-permanent existence and organization are the "compagnies de paroisse" which grouped together members of the rural community who elected their captains. Although two-thirds of the insurgents were peasants, they only represented half of the men in these units, the rest being artisans and shopkeepers.
The flaws of this army were its few health services and its lack of permanent fighters, even considering their reinforcements of republican deserters, gabelous, Germans or Swiss. Their weaponry and provisions were also poor. The cavalry was only composed of noble chiefs, a few game wardens and peasants mounted on farm horses. The artillery was composed only of old culverin taken from castles and a few cannons taken from the republicans, making it impossible for the Catholic and Royal Army to oppose a strong Republican army on open field, or to break the fortifications of a town like at Granville.
After the Battle of Savenay, the army was reconstructed on paper but its actual existence was insignificant; the insurrection became a chouannerie.
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Thank you 🙏🏻!!!! I found this recording of this song on an old website about traditional music :)

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