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Jean-Clément Martin, La Terreur, part maudite de la Révolution, coll. Découvertes Gallimard (n° 566), 2010, p.82 St Hilaire des loges . At the point where the prairie rolls over into the bocage east of Fontenay-le-Comte, lays the village of St Hilaire des Loges. Read More... Noirmoutier-en-Ile . This is the main town on the island of Noirmoutier, and is a really charming port with fortified castle, glorious beaches and many attractions.

a b James Maxwell Anderson (2007). Daily Life During the French Revolution, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-33683-0. p. 205

9. Discover the Vendée by bike

The repression, however, provoked a resurgence of the rebellion and in December 1794 the Republicans began negotiations which led between February and May 1795 to the signing of peace treaties with the various Vendée leaders, thus bringing about the end of the "first Vendée war". Here, stretching from the Deux Sevres across the Vendée and into the Charente Maritime in a rather meandering sort of way, is the beautiful region of the Marais Poitevin. It’s a sleepy labyrinth of canals lined with poplars and weeping willows also known as Green Venice which was first created in the 10 th century by monks and later refined by the Dutch. Here you’ll find punting, artists and the stone cottages of Arcais with its Angelica liquor and twisting streets, the pretty village of Benet and the waterside town of Damvix. A slice of something special in the Vendée Mitchell, Harvey. "The Vendée and Counterrevolution: A Review Essay," French Historical Studies (1968) 5#4 pp.405–429 in JSTOR Mark Levene, Southampton University, see "Areas where I can offer Postgraduate Supervision". Retrieved 9 February 2009. Charles Tilly, "Chapter Three: State and Counterrevolution in France", in Fehér, Ferenc, ed. The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990, pp. 49–63.

a b Mark Levene (2005). The Rise of the West and the Coming of Genocide. Volume II: Genocide in the Age of the Nation State. I.B. Tauris, London & New York. Chapter 3: The Vendée – A Paradigm Shift?; p. 104. Retrieved 2 March 2017. Chaume . Across the harbour from Les Sables-d'Olonne this ancient fishing village was once on an island, but as the sea... Read More... The president of the Departmental Council is Alain Lebœuf, elected in July 2021. Previous Presidents were Bruno Retailleau and Philippe de Villiers. The largest cities of the department of Vendée (compared to the number of inhabitants in 2007) are : The Vendée Revolt was also the setting for " The Frogs and the Lobsters", an episode of the television program Hornblower. It is set during the French Revolutionary Wars and very loosely based on the chapter of the same name in C. S. Forester's novel, Mr. Midshipman Hornblower and on the actual ill-fated Quiberon expedition of 1795. [ citation needed]Aizenay This village is just north of La Roche sur Yon on the road to Challon. It is the hub of modern Vendée. Read More... Jones, Adam. Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge/Taylor & Francis (2006), ISBN 0-415-35385-8. Chapter 1, Section "The Vendée uprising", pp. 6–7. North Coast and Breton Vendée Marshes: Find here the islands of Noirmoutier and the island of Yeu, as well as Challans and some of the largest seaside resorts on the coast. Fine and warm sand, maritime forests, dune cordon… You will also discover the salt marshes of the Marais Breton Vendéen, a strong ecosystem of Vendée, a use by humans for centuries, of these a priori unfavorable environments.

In what Max Weber later dubbed Caesaropapism, the Civil Constitution of the Clergy required all Roman Catholic priests to transfer their allegiance from the Holy See to the Constitution and, by extension, to the increasingly anti-clerical and anti-Catholic National Constituent Assembly of the Republic. All but seven of the 160 French bishops refused to take the oath, as did about half of the parish priests. [12] Anti-clericalism and coercive secularization of French culture triggered the Vendée belligerence; another trigger was further mass conscription into the French Revolutionary Army. The March 1793 conscription requiring Vendeans to fill their district's quota of the national total of 300,000 enraged the local nobility, clergy, and the populace, [10] who took up arms instead as " The Catholic Army", "Royal" being added later, and fought for "above all the reopening of their parish churches with their former priests." [13] Chaize-Giraud . Small village close to St.Gilles-Croix-de-Vie which has one of the finest examples of roman Poitevin architecture Read More... Mervent . A pretty village within the Mervent-Vouvant forest this village has some great attractions.... Read More... But the Vendee is about a lot more than just the coast and inland the region splits into two very distinctive halves. The Bocage (countryside) to the north is a combination of rolling hills, dramatic lakes and rivers and historic, fortified market towns with 2,000 hectares of unspoilt forest at its core. As an area that has been ravaged over the centuries by a series of wars and rebellions and is steeped in history, here you’ll find the ubiquitous sunflower fields and vineyards and can head to the lake at Mervent for fresh water swimming, gentle water sports and lakeside dinning.In the rural Vendée, the local nobility seems to have been more permanently in power than in other parts of France. [6] Alexis de Tocqueville, of France, noted that most French nobles lived in cities by 1789. An Intendants' survey showed one of the few areas where the nobility still lived with the peasants was the Vendée. [7] In this particularly-isolated feudal stronghold, the class conflict that drove the revolution in Paris and other parts of France was further suppressed by the institutional strength of the Catholic church in alliance with the nobility. Counter-Enlightenment author Francois Mignet accused that militant Republicans wanted to destroy both the independence and influence of the Catholic Church in France, which the people of the Vendée considered unimaginable. [8] Estimates of those killed in the Vendean conflict—on both sides—range between 117,000 and 450,000, out of a population of around 800,000. [52] [53] [54] The Hundred Days [ edit ] Mesnard-la Barotiere . In the X1 century church of St.Christophe are medieval wall drawings, many of which are quite gruesome. Read More.. Les Brouzils This Village is 12 kilometres south of Montaigu. It is adjacent to the foret de Grasla which is home to the Refuge de Grasla Among the biggest events hosted in the Vendée, the Vendée Globe is probably the most extraordinary. Known as the ‘Everest of the Seas’, the Vendée Globe is a race of admiration. This sailing race — solo, around the world, non-stop and without assistance — occurs every 4 years. This human adventure is dedicated to the greatest French and foreign sailors.

Louis Prévost (comte) de la Boutetière, Le chevalier de Sapinaud et les chefs vendéens du centre, Paris, 1869, p. 25 Practice Grounds. Both (in the) open air and under cover, together with a putting green and a fairway.

The history of the Vendée

Vendée ( French pronunciation: [vɑ̃de] ⓘ; Breton: Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442. [3] Its prefecture is La Roche-sur-Yon. South Coast and Poitevin Marshes: It is the same type of territory, but we are here in the south, in the Marais Poitevin, known for its luxuriance, its canals and bucolic boat trips... We follow the coast from beach to beach, for discover the very touristy, sparkling and jovial face of the Vendée littoral. Les Sables d'Olonne is the most lively point of our getaways. On the east side, you enter the wetlands of the marsh, giving pride of place to towns and villages which offer a vernacular heritage related to the landscapes. Jean-Clément Martin, La Vendée et la Révolution. Accepter la mémoire pour écrire l'histoire, Perrin, collection Tempus, 2007, pp. 68–69 St Benoist . With a rabbit that smokes and ancient commons , this quaint little former port has something for everyone. Read More...