The department of Vendée is located in the region of Pays de la Loire. Vendée is in red on the map of french departments.

Mitchell, Harvey. "The Vendée and Counterrevolution: A Review Essay," French Historical Studies (1968) 5#4 pp.405–429 in JSTOR The three big wonders of the Vendée, France – stunning sandy beaches stretching for miles, the glorious countryside of the bocage, dramatic, unspoiled and littered with picturesque villages, and the Marais Poitevan – a network of canals, lush landscape and pretty hamlets known as the Green Venice says writer and Vendée local Lucy Pitts… Port de Courdault. This ancient port just east of Fontenay-le-Comte is a hidden gem on the Marais Poitevin. Read More...The Vendée has been cited as the most economically dynamic department in France by L'Express magazine in a 2006 survey. [11] Its economy is characterised by a low rate of unemployment (around 7% in late 2006 compared to more than 9% nationally) and a very high proportion of small and medium-sized businesses (one business for every 14 inhabitants). La Gaubretiere Just to the north west of Les Herbiers this village suffered badly during the wars of the Vendée with 1,200 of its 1,700 residents being killed in battle or massacred by the revolutionary troops. Read More... 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. 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.. a b Jean-Clément Martin, Contre-Révolution, Révolution et Nation en France, 1789–1799, éditions du Seuil, collection Points, 1998, p. 219

This is the region for peak season where you can still explore the many footpaths without hitting the tourist trail. And from the renaissance town of Fontenay Le Comte with the remains of its walled medieval castle to fortified Vouvant (one of the plus beaux villages de France) with its stunning vistas down over the river Mere, there are a dozen beautiful, little towns oozing history, intrigue and charm where you can while away the time. Sail south to the Marais Poitevin, Vendée Adam Jones, Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction, Routledge/Taylor & Francis Publishers 2006, p. 7

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The department has several small vineyards, around Brem-sur-Mer, Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais, Vix, and Pissotte. L es Lucs-sur Boulogne . This town 23 kilometres north of La Roche-sur-Yon is the centre for the memoirs of the Wars of the Vendée, Read More... The Convention issued conciliatory proclamations allowing the Vendeans liberty of worship and guaranteeing their property. General Hoche applied these measures with great success. He restored their cattle to the peasants who submitted, "let the priests have a few crowns", and on 20 July 1795 annihilated an émigré expedition which had been equipped in England and had seized Fort Penthièvre and Quiberon. Treaties were concluded at La Jaunaye (15 February 1795) and at La Mabillaie, and were fairly well observed by the Vendeans; no obstacle remained but the feeble and scattered remnant of the Vendeans still under arms and the Chouans. On 16 July 1796 the Directory proclaimed the official end of the war. [50] On 30 July the state of siege was raised in the western departments. [51]

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] Le Boupere . The village has a 13th century church which was fortified in the 15th century and is worthy of a second look. Read More... 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. The Vendée still experienced last and brief uprisings with a third war in 1799, a fourth in 1815 and a fifth in 1832, but they were on a much smaller scale. 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".The Vendée, which was formerly much larger and was part of the whole of Bas-Poitou, has been a territory populated since the Neolithic, as evidenced by the remains found and the many megaliths, still planted in the ground everywhere (especially in the Talmondais). During Antiquity, the Pictons and the Celts settled in the coastal regions. Caesar arrives and agrees with the Pictons, in an alliance that makes the region prosperous. From the 4th century, Bas-Poitou became Christianized and structured to face the Viking invasions of the 8th century: the coast was the scene of violence which only ended with the cession of present-day Normandy. The port town of Jard-sur-Mer has easy access to attractive beaches either side of the town harbour, and the town of Longeville-sur-Mer is just a few kilometres from the family friendly and surfing beaches at Le Bouil, Le Rocher and Les Conches.

Beauvoir-sur-Mer , This village is the gateway to the Breton Marshes and the Goie, the causeway leading to the Ile de Noirmoutier. Read More.... Roger Dupuy, La République jacobine, tome 3 de la Nouvelle histoire de la France contemporaine, pp. 268–69. Despite the criticism, a number of scholars continue the assertion of genocide. In addition to Secher and Chaunu, Kurt Jonassohn and Frank Chalk also consider it a case of genocide. [81] Further support comes from Adam Jones, who wrote in Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction a summary of the Vendée uprising, supporting the view that it was a genocide: "the Vendée Uprising stands as a notable example of a mass killing campaign that has only recently been conceptualized as 'genocide '" and that while this designation "is not universally shared ... it seems apt in the light of the large scale murder of a designated group (the Vendéan civilian population)." [82] Pierre Chaunu [71] describes it as the first "ideological genocide". [83] Mark Levene, a historian who specializes in the study of genocide, [84] [ full citation needed] considers the Vendée "an archetype of modern genocide". [85] Other scholars who consider the massacres to be genocide include R. J. Rummel, [86] Jean Tulard, [87] and Anthony James Joes. [88] Jacques Hussenet (dir.), «Détruisez la Vendée!» Regards croisés sur les victimes et destructions de la guerre de Vendée, La Roche-sur-Yon, Centre vendéen de recherches historiques, 2007, pp. 452–53 Charles Tilly, "Local Conflicts in the Vendée before the rebellion of 1793", French Historical Studies II, Fall 1961, p. 219Paul Tallonneau, Les Lucs et le génocide vendéen: comment on a manipulé les textes, éditions Hécate, 1993