Révolte de Fouesnant, Civil uprising landmark in Fouesnant, France.

The Révolte de Fouesnant was a peasant uprising that ended in a fight on 10 July 1792 in Fouesnant, Finistère. Alain Nédellec, a ploughman from Cosquer and justice of the peace, gathered 1,000 to 1,100 armed men from Fouesnant, La Forêt-Fouesnant, Clohars-Fouesnant, Pleuven and Saint-Yvi near the Kerbader chapel. A detachment of 150 national guards and 16 gendarmes with a cannon left Quimper at four in the morning; the guards spent the night in the church before returning with prisoners.

In 1790 Alain Nédellec, a ploughman at Cosquer in Fouesnant, was elected justice of the peace but refused to sit without a royal nomination. Fined by the Quimper court, he refused to pay; seizures of his goods in June and July 1791 were blocked by peasants. On 8 July 1792 he called armed men to the Kerbader chapel, and on 10 July 1792 national guards and gendarmes from Quimper dispersed them. Nédellec was guillotined at Quimper on 20 March 1793, the city's first.

The uprising reflected how rural Breton communities experienced and resisted the revolutionary government's new policies. It shows the tension that existed between villages and authorities trying to enforce laws from distant administrative centers.

The confrontation of 10 July 1792 took place in the bourg of Fouesnant itself, where the National Guards from Quimper arrived at dawn after a march of about fifteen kilometres. The sources locate the gathering of 400 to 500 armed men near the Kerbader chapel on 8 July, and the fighting in the town. The guards spent the night in the parish church with their dead and wounded before returning to Quimper the next day.

The uprising's leader, Alain Nédellec, was the first person guillotined in Quimper, executed on 20 March 1793 after the criminal court of Finistère condemned him five days earlier. Ten other Fouesnant residents, including his father-in-law Tanguy Caradec, were acquitted for having acted without free will.