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The Pontcallec conspiracy was a rebellion that arose from an anti-tax movement in Brittany between 1718 and 1720. This was at the beginning of the Régence...

Gunpowder Treason Plot; origin of Guy Fawkes Day 1718–1720 The Pontcallec conspiracy during the minority of Louis XV to overthrow the Regent Philippe...

the Cellamare conspiracy was discovered and its participants exiled. Two years later its aims were revived in the Pontcallec conspiracy, four leaders...

Hersart de la Villemarqué. The death of the Marquis de Pontcallec [fr] following a conspiracy against the kingdom of France, is an authentic historical...

1709–1710: Food riots during the famine of 1709–1710 1718–1720: Pontcallec conspiracy, a rebellion in Brittany 1725: Food riot in Paris 1739–1740: Food...

set during the 18th century French Régence centring on the Breton Pontcallec Conspiracy. It won the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics Prix Méliès, and...

18th centuries: the Revolt of the papier timbré (1675) and the Pontcallec conspiracy (1719). Both arose from attempts to resist centralisation and assert...

the Duke of Bourbon; 26 March: Execution of the leaders of the Pontcallec Conspiracy against the Regency. Publication of the Persian Letters by Montesquieu;...

1718. Two years later, the aims of the Cellamare conspiracy were revived in the Pontcallec conspiracy, four leaders of which were executed. Philippe had...

resisted the centralising measures of the king, leading to the Pontcallec Conspiracy, which was severely repressed by the monarchy. History of Brittany...

Monarch – Louis XV Regent: Philip II of Orleans 1718 to 1720 – The Pontcallec Conspiracy April 4 – The French army under James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick...

museum. Pontcallec, Du Couëdic, Montlouis, and Talhouët, were sentenced to death in 1720 for their participation in the Pontcallec conspiracy. Gérard...

brought up. Executed for a crime lèse-majesté, having taken part in the Conspiracy of Latréaumont. Hercule Mériadec de Rohan (1669–1749) Charles, Prince...

the Triple Alliance and War of the Quadruple Alliance. Cellamare and Pontcallec conspirancies. Died in office due to health problems. Cabinets of Louis...

conspiracy of Pontcallec of 1720, members of the petty nobility in contact with Spain led a tax revolt against the Régence. The marquis de Pontcallec...