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Taylor, Ida Ashworth (1913). The tragedy of an army: La Vendée in 1793. Hutchinson & Co. p. 315 . Retrieved 22 December 2011. In the Vendée, 31 members, elected through universal suffrage, govern the affairs of the department, with 26 members on the right-wing and 5 members on the left-wing. The municipality with the highest altitude of the department of Vendée is: Saint-Michel-Mont-Mercurewith 285 m

The Vendée Revolt was the setting for one of the BBC's The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV series) series entitled "Valentine Gautier" (2002). [ citation needed] 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]In 1815, when Napoleon escaped exile on Elba for his Hundred Days, the Vendée refused to recognise him and stayed loyal to King Louis XVIII. General Lamarque led 10,000 men into the Vendée to pacify the region. [6] A failed rebellion in the Vendée in 1832 in support of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile, duchess de Berry, the former King Charles X's widowed daughter-in-law, was an unsuccessful attempt to restore the Legitimist Bourbon dynasty during the reign of the Orléanist monarch, King Louis Philippe of the French (1830–1848).

On June 9, 1793, Vendean insurgents commanded by Jacques Cathelineau captured the town of Saumur from Louis-Alexandre Berthier. The victory gave the insurgents a massive supply of arms, including 50 cannons. This was the high point of the insurgency. [25] The Vendeans had never before attempted to take such a large town, and they captured it in a single day, inflicting heavy losses on its Republican defenders. Many prisoners were taken, some of whom went over to the Vendean cause, while many of the citizens fled to Tours. [26] The burning of Granville, 14 November 1793 Battle of Nantes [ edit ] Le Moniteur Universel (21 July 1796). "Suite de la séance du 28 messidor. Le directoire exécutif au conseil des cinq cents". {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Jonassohn, Kurt and Solveig Bjeornson, Karin. Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations. 1998, Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0765804174. p. 208.Chaize-Giraud . Small village close to St.Gilles-Croix-de-Vie which has one of the finest examples of roman Poitevin architecture Read More... 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 ]

Geographically, the insurrection occurred within a rough quadrilateral approximately 60 miles (97km) wide. The territory defied description in the terms of the redistricting of 1790, nor did it align itself to descriptors used in the Ancien Régime; the heart of the movement lay in the forests, with Cholet at its center, in the wild districts of the old county of Anjou, in the Breton marshlands between Montaigu and the sea. It included parts of the old Poitiers and Tours, the departements of Maine-et-Loire, the Vendée, and Deux Sèvres, but never completely fell under Royalist control. The further the land was from Paris (the seat of revolutionary power), the more Counter-revolutionary belligerence occurred. [19] Vendée military response [ edit ] the marshy region north of La Rochelle at Marais Poitevin - is a peaceful and unique marshland regionThe area today called the Vendée was originally known as the Bas-Poitou and is part of the former province of Poitou. Bretignolles . On the Atlantic coast this popular seaside resort is well known for its surfing beaches, Read More... Tablier La . This village overlooks the prettiest stretch of the river Yon where water tumbles over rounded boulders, Read More... The Vendeans revolted against the Revolutionary government in 1793. They resented the harsh oppression imposed on the Catholic Church by the provisions of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy act (1790) and broke into open revolt after the Revolutionary government's imposition of military conscription. A massacre of Republicans at Machecoul in March was followed by guerrilla warfare, led at the outset by peasants who were chosen in each locale, and cost more than 240,000 lives before it ended in 1796 (190,000 Vendeans who were republicans or royalists and 50,000 non-Vendean republican soldiers; according to the Jacques Hussenet and Centre Vendéen de Recherche Historique's book Détruisez la Vendée).

Debate over the characterization of the Vendée uprising was renewed in 2007, when nine deputies introduced a measure to the National Assembly to officially recognize the Republican actions as genocidal. [75] The measure was strongly denounced by a group of Far Left French historians as an attempt to use history to justify political extremism. [76] [ full citation needed] To help you organize your holidays in Vendée, we have prepared several chapters, a Travel Guide that is easy to consult and very comprehensive, so as not to miss anything and facilitate your wanderings. We have divided the territory into 5 entities, which more or less follow the map of the landscapes of the Vendée.a b James Maxwell Anderson (2007). Daily Life During the French Revolution, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-33683-0. p. 205