a b c McPhee, Peter Review of Reynald Secher, A French Genocide: The Vendée H-France Review Vol. 4 (March 2004), No. 26 Nationale, Assemblée. "Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français". Assemblée nationale. Who said that French food is the best? Vendée is even better! With a rich terroir and a generous ocean, there are myriad local specialities to savour! The Vendée brioche is certainly one of the best known. Its taste is the result of a few high-quality ingredients — flour, butter, sugar and eggs — and a lot of love. Foussais-Payre . This is classed as one of the 'Petites Cites de Charactere'. Foussais joined with its neighbour Payre-sur- Vendée in 1968 to form Foussais -Payre but its history dates from Gallo Roman.... Read More....

Adam Jones, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishers 2006, p. 7 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.

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Continuing towards the south, Bretignolles-sur-Mer is a small resort with a very long beach while Sables d'Olonne is one of the most upmarket resorts in this part of France and stays active into the evening with lots of restaurants and entertainments.

Mouchamps . On a hilltop overlooking the River Lay, this picturesque village has a 12 th century church with a chequered past and nearby.. Read more... The municipality with the largest area of the department of Vendée is: Talmont-Saint-Hilairewith 89.53 km ²At the start of 2017 Jacques Villemain published Vendée, 1793–1794: Crime de guerre? Crime contre l'humanité? Génocide? Une étude juridique [Vendée, 1793–1794: War crime? Crime against humanity? Genocide? A juridical study], which an analysis by him of the Vendée war from the perspective of the international courts of justice in The Hague (such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda). Jacques Villemain is a French diplomat, and is currently the vice representative of France at OECD and is representing France at the International Court of Justice. He presented a legal study on the War of Vendée based on current international criminal law, according to modern findings in the international courts on genocide cases like the Rwanda Genocide and the Srebrenica massacre, is that the government of the First French Republic was guilty of war crimes beginning in March 1793, crimes against humanity between April to July 1793, and genocide from 1 August 1793 to the middle of 1794. [77] Challenging the methodology [ edit ] As well as the resorts, towns and villages of Vendée there are other reasons to take your holiday in the department and the region has various popular family attractions including: In the heart of the modern controversy lies Secher's evidence, which Charles Tilly analyzed in 1990. [78] Initially, Tilly maintains, Secher completed a thoughtful dissertation-style thesis about the revolutionary experience in his own village, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, which lies near Nantes. In the published version of his thesis, he incorporated some of Tilly's own arguments: that conflicts within communities generalized into a region-wide confrontation of anti-revolutionary majority based in the countryside with a pro-revolutionary minority that had particular strength in the cities. The split formed with the application of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the oath to support it, in 1790–1792. From then, the local conflicts grew more sharply defined, over the choice between juring and non-juring priests. The conscription of March 1793, with the questionable exemption for Republican officials and National Guard members, broadened the anti-revolutionary coalition and brought the young men into action. [79] The most populous commune is La Roche-sur-Yon, the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 7 communes with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The 10 most populous communes are: [3] Commune

Driving . By far the largest proportion of visitors choose to drive to the Vendée and you will find the road system here good quality. The department of Vendée has the number 85. It is composed of 3 districts ("arrondissements") , 31 townships ("cantons") and 282 towns ("communes"). The resort of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez and the town of Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie are only a short distance apart and together make an interesting destination: the popularity of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez is clear as soon as you walk in the sunshine along the long sandy beach here and Saint Gilles Croix de Vie is one of the liveliest towns, ports and beaches on the Cote de Lumière. In 1850, English author Anthony Trollope published his book La Vendée, detailing the history of the region and the war. In the preface he pays tribute to Madame de la Rochejaquelein, on whose memoirs of the war he based his story.Coulon. Situated within the Deux Sèvres Department it is the capital of the Green Venice it is one of the prettiest villages in France. Read More.. The main University of this department is the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES [10] in La Roche-sur-Yon. The main goal of this institute is to achieve academic excellence through an enhancement of the Christian and human dimension in seven areas of study. Founded in 1989, Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES has pioneered a new concept in higher education, that of the "University School": halfway between the French Grande École and the traditional state university. From Les Sables d’Olonne, the skippers are racing for three months aboard their monohull and have to cross the three major capes: Good Hope (South Africa), Leeuwin (Australia) and Horn (Chile), before going up the Atlantic and completing the world tour at the starting point, after a journey of just over 21,000 nautical miles across the world’s oceans. The Vendée Globe Village is located in Les Sables d’Olonne three weeks before the start, giving the public an opportunity to follow the race preparation and learn more about the world of the sea, while tasting some local specialities. Magnils Reigners . Lying west of Luçon this small village is best known for St Nicolas Church (XII century) and its Priory (XIV century). Read More...