Mémoires de Renée Bordereau, dite Langevin, touchant sa vie militaire dans la Vendée

History offers few examples of as fearless and fierce female soldiers as Renee Bordereau (1766–1822), a peasant women, who followed her father to fight with the Royalists against the Revolutionaries in the French Revolutionary Wars (1792–98). Vendée soldiers witnessed her exploits and admired the cavalry rider, who was called the Brave Angevin, all without knowing that she was a woman. Always on horseback at the front, Bordereau would not leave the battlefield, even when she received serious injuries. She devoted herself entirely to fighting the Republicans during the War of the Vendée. Even five years in jail could not curb her convictions. And it was with the same fighting spirit that she dictated her memoirs, which were among the first accounts published of the Vendée Wars.