Vendée (French: Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution from 1793 to 1796 in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is...
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The Battle of Pont-Barré (20 September 1793) saw Royalist Vendeans under Pierre Duhoux and Dominique Piron de La Varenne fighting a Republican French column...
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the royalists in Vendée in 1813 and furthered the royalist cause there during the Hundred Days period. He fell in battle at Pont-de-Mathis on 4 June 1815...
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principe d'humanité... : La Terreur et la Vendée (in French). Fayard. ISBN 978-2213603995. Gras, Yves (1994). La Guerre de Vendée (1793-1796) (in French)...
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Prairie-au-Duc (after being located on la prairie de Mauves close to Nantes railway station) and was too close to the "ponts de la Vendée" which were in construction...
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(condemned as a "brigand") in the Vendée. Born at Beaurepaire, Vendée, Poitou, the son of Leonard de Verteuil, baron de Feuillas (1680-1743), Jacques Alexis...
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department Saint-Denis-en-Val, in the Loiret department Saint-Denis-la-Chevasse, in the Vendée department Saint-Denis-le-Ferment, in the Eure department Saint-Denis-le-Gast...
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Noirmoutier Bridge (category Transport in Pays de la Loire)
Noirmoutier Bridge (French: Pont de Noirmoutier) is a bridge located on the west coast of France in the department of Vendée, built in the early 1970s to...
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Fontenay-le-Comte (category Communes of Vendée)
Fontenay-le-Comte (IPA: [fɔ̃tənɛ lə kɔ̃t]; Poitevin: Funtenaes or Fintenè) is a commune and subprefecture in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region of Western...
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was one of the few Royalist survivors of the War in the Vendée. A captain in the régiment de Condé in 1789, the comte d'Autichamp emigrated then returned...
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Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (redirect from Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie)
Reiss (2012), The Black Count, pp. 177–183 Henri Bourgeois, Biographies de la Vendée militaire: Alexandre Dumas (Luçon, France: M. Bideaux, 1900), 23, quoted...
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Moulin de la Galette The Moulin de la Galette is a windmill and associated businesses situated near the top of the district of Montmartre in Paris. Since...
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Vergier de La Rochejacquelein is the name of an ancient French noble family of the Vendée, celebrated for its devotion to the House of Bourbon during...
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Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salle, in the Vendée département Saint-Laurent-de-Lévézou, in the...
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Groupe Atlantic (category Vendée)
Groupe Atlantic is a French HVAC company. It was founded in la Roche-sur-Yon (in Vendée region on the west coast of France) by Mr Radat and Mr Lamoure...
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vicomte de Toulongeon' in La Monnaie de France au début du XIXe siècle. Genève: Librairie Droz. (in French) Émilie Toulongeon. Lettres de la Vendée, écrites...
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2nd Beuvry la Forêt 6th Tour de Vendée 2009 1st Stage 3 Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon 4th Tour de Vendée 6th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers 8th...
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Maurice d'Elbée (category Royalist military leaders of the War in the Vendée)
and much of the middle class in the Vendée remained loyal to the Catholic Church and, in 1792, the Marquess de la Rouërie had organized a general rising...
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"Tuerie de Nantes : Arthur, le fils aîné, était étudiant en Vendée". 25 April 2011. Retrieved 14 September 2015. "Tragédie de Nantes: à Angers, la police...
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Battle of Saint-Fulgent (category Military history of Pays de la Loire)
the Vendée. The 11,000 Vendean rebels, led by Henri de La Rochejaquelein, defeated a 6,000-man republican division, commanded by Jean Quirin de Mieszkowski...
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funeral. Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny was born on 2 February 1889 in Mouilleron-en-Pareds, Vendée, in the same village as World War...
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Battle of Chemillé (April 11, 1793) (category Battles of the War in the Vendée)
"Détruisez la Vendée !". Regards croisés sur les victimes et destructions de la guerre de Vendée (in French). La Roche-sur-Yon: Centre vendéen de recherches...
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Dieppe) Béthune (in Arques-la-Bataille) Seine (in Le Havre) Risle (in Berville-sur-Mer) Charentonne (near Bernay) Eure (in Pont-de-l'Arche) Iton (near Louviers)...
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Pont-l'Abbé is twinned with: Betanzos, Spain Schleiden, Germany Bantry, Ireland Vincent Riou, a yacht race Sailor who distinguished himself at Vendée...
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Sèvre Nantaise (category Rivers of Pays de la Loire)
list is ordered from source to mouth: Deux-Sèvres: Moncoutant, La Forêt-sur-Sèvre Vendée: Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, Mortagne-sur-Sèvre, Tiffauges Maine-et-Loire:...
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Populations légales de Mayotte en 2017 Répartition de la population en Polynésie française en 2017, Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française...
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Machecoul (category Gilles de Rais)
Saint-Même-le-Tenu, Saint-Mars-de-Coutais, Saint-Lumine-de-Coutais, Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu, La Marne, Paulx in Vendée: Bois-de-Céné. Its inhabitants are...
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Battle of Thouars (category Battles of the War in the Vendée)
forces during the War in the Vendée. The Royalists or Vendeans led by Louis Marie de Lescure, Charles de Bonchamps, and Henri de La Rochejaquelein seized the...
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René François Lecomte (category Republican military leaders of the War in the Vendée)
pronunciation: [ʁəne fʁɑ̃swa ləkɔ̃t]; born 14 May 1764 in Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendée), died on 15 October 1793 in Bressuire (Deux-Sèvres)), was a general of...
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century. The town and castle, the Château de Clisson, were destroyed in 1792 and 1793 during the War in the Vendée. Afterwards, the sculptor François-Frédéric...
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