In the 1890s, when statuomanie was at its peak, conservatives in the Vendée erected two statues to commemorate figures from the royalist armies in the civil war, in order to contest republican education politics and memory culture. The first, aristocrat Henri de La Rochejaquelein (1772–94), was unveiled in 1895, the second, erected a year later, celebrated the first commander-in-chief of the royalist army, Jacques Cathelineau (1759–93). The contested nature of these commemorations illustrates the distinctive character of the Vendée in the early Third Republic; leading conservative politicians and churchmen did not mediate between grandes and petites patries within a republican frame, but rather rejected the notion of the secular democratic republic in its entirety. The memorials sought to assert a distinctive regional history to local Vendéen audiences, but they did so in the service of a vision of France and its history that contradicted the dominant project of republicanism and thus constituted a unique chapter of the wider debate about memory and history in France during the Third Republic.

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第三共和国早期旺代内战的保皇党纪念碑

1890年代，当雕像狂热达到顶峰时，旺代省的保守派竖立了两座雕像来纪念内战中保皇党军队的人物，以对抗共和教育政治和记忆文化。第一座由贵族亨利·德拉罗什雅克兰 (Henri de La Rochejaquelein，1772-94 年) 于 1895 年揭幕，第二座于一年后建成，旨在纪念保皇党军队的第一任总司令雅克·凯瑟琳诺 (Jacques Cathelineau，1759-93 年)。这些纪念活动的争议性质体现了第三共和国早期旺代省的独特特征。主要的保守派政治家和教士并没有在共和框架内调停大宗国和小宗族之间的关系，而是完全拒绝世俗民主共和国的概念。这些纪念馆试图向当地旺代观众宣示独特的地区历史，但它们这样做是为了服务于法国及其历史的愿景，这种愿景与共和主义的主导计划相矛盾，从而构成了有关记忆和历史的更广泛辩论的独特篇章在法国第三共和国时期。