ageofrevolutions.com/2026/10/13/dealing-with-a-new-schism-after-the-revolution-the-french-government-and-the-cult-of-the-petite-eglise-in-the-vendee-1802-1830 Dealing with a New Schism after the Revolution: The French Government and the Cult of the Petite Église in the Vendée (1802–1830)
Only 3 of 73 priests in the Bressuire arrondissement took the Concordat oath in 1802. Archival police records show the government's crackdown on the resulting schism was harsher and longer than historians realized, yet roughly 15,000 followers held on anyway, and the sect survives in Deux-Sèvres today.
— via Age of Revolutions, Age of Revolutions
