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Place of Birth: Saint-Berthevin, Pays de la Loire, France
About Jean Chouan
- Jean Chouan was the nom de guerre of the Frenchman, Jean Cottereau, who was born in Saint-Berthevin, near Laval, in the department of Mayenne on 30 October 1757 and died 18 July 1794 in Olivet, Mayenne.
- He was a counter-revolutionary, an insurrectionist, and a staunch royalist.Of the four Cottereau brothers—Jean, Pierre, François, and René—Jean, the second-born, was the one called chouan ("the silent one") by their father.
- Others say his nickname came from an imitation of the call of the tawny owl (the chouette hulotte) he customarily used as a recognition signal.
- Less flatteringly, Jean's young comrades nicknamed him "the boy liar" (le Gars mentoux or le garçon menteur).The 1926 Luitz-Morat film Jean Chouan starred Maurice Lagrenée as Chouan.
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