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Jean-Noël Azé, Victories and defeats of the chouan leaders from Mayenne in the 19th century Compared to Jean Chouan who has become a real reference in Mayenne nowadays, the other Chouan leaders are less famous. Though they pay a heavy tribute to the civil war, most of them survive and are forgotten once they have come back in their villages after 1800. They quickly have to face pacification measures that they don't really want and have different, sometimes ambivalent behaviours. They are legalist, but at the same time, some former Chouan leaders keep a group of armed men, ready to rise up at the first opportunity. That's what they will be asked by the royalists in 1815 and 1832 but as it is well-known, it won't be successful. Besides, these Chouans become embarrassing for the monarchist governments because they are eager to receive a symbolical and financial recognition (that they will never receive). Actually they will always represent a threat for the civil peace.