Vanquish or Die! The Vendee Uprising - A True Story - English Subtitles

In 1793, in France a French National Assembly created a Civil Constitution which required all Roman Catholic priests to transfer their allegiance from the Holy See to the Constitution and, by extension, to the increasingly anti-clerical and anti-Catholic National Constituent Assembly of the Republic. All but seven of the 160 French bishops refused to take the oath, as did about half of the parish priests. Anti-clericalism and coercive secularization of French culture triggered the Vendée rebellion; another trigger was further mass conscription into the French Revolutionary Army. The March 1793 conscription requiring Vendeans to fill their district's quota of the national total of 300,000 enraged the local nobility, clergy, and the populace, who took up arms instead as "The Royal Catholic Army", and fought for "above all the reopening of their parish churches with their former priests."
This is their story.