Surrender of the Vendée leaders

After numerous battles, Lazare Hoche, a general of the Revolution, signed a peace agreement with the Chouans of Brittany, Maine and Normandy in July 1796. Hoche announced that ‘the unrest in the West is over’, and the Directory proclaimed that ‘It is finally true to say today that this dreadful war in the Vendée and among the Chouans has come to an end’. Yet the region would still experience uprisings in 1799, 1815 and 1832, although these were much less intense than the conflict of 1793–1796.
Hoche himself survived two assassination attempts: first by poisoning and then, as he was leaving the theatre in Rennes, by gunshot. But the shot, fired by a worker at the arsenal, missed him.