Quiberon

Quiberon, a small fishing-town of France (dept. Morbihan), at the extremity of a long narrow peninsula, 21 miles SW. of Vannes. Pop. 1036. It was here that a body of French emigrant royalists landed from an English fleet in 1795, and endeavoured to rouse the people of Brittany and La Vendée against the Convention, but were defeated and driven into the sea by General Hoche. Nearly all the prisoners taken were shot by order of the Convention. On 20th November 1759 Hawke completely defeated a French fleet under Admiral Conflans in Quiberon Bay.