# Vendée uprising begins (1793)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1793-vendee-uprising-begins
Location: Vendée
Categories: battle

A major royalist and Catholic rebellion erupted against conscription and revolutionary policies. Within the broader French Revolution period, The Revolution dismantled legal privilege and absolute monarchy, declared new rights and created a republic. War, popular mobilization, civil conflict and political terror repeatedly transformed the revolutionary state. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is National Convention (Collective head of the French Republic). Vendée uprising begins mattered because it changed the military or territorial balance and influenced the political choices that followed. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Vendée uprising begins mattered because it changed the military or territorial balance and influenced the political choices that followed.

Ruler at the time: [National Convention](https://history-france.com/rulers/national-convention)

## Sources
- [Wikipedia topic lookup — Vendée uprising begins](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Vend%C3%A9e+uprising+begins&go=Go)
- [Encyclopaedia Britannica topic lookup — Vendée uprising begins](https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Vend%C3%A9e+uprising+begins)
- [Vie-publique — French institutions and history](https://www.vie-publique.fr/)