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Vendée is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2016, it had a population of 670,597. Its prefecture is La Roche-sur-Yon. The area today called the Vendée was originally known as the Bas-Poitou and is part of the former province of Poitou. In the
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See moreThe name Vendée is taken from the Vendée River which runs through the southeastern part of the department. The river is attested as Fluvium Vendre in the 10th century, and as Flumen Vendee and Vendeia by the 11th
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See moreIn 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
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See more• (in French) General council website
• (in French) Prefecture website
• (in French) Vendee Tourist Board...
See moreThe main University of this department is the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies - ICES 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
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See moreThe War in the Vendée is the subject of Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize), the last novel by the French writer Victor Hugo, an episode in
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The Vendée (US: / v ɒ̃ ˈ d eɪ /, French: (); Occitan: Vendèa) is a 82.5-kilometre-long (51.3 mi) river in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Pays de la Loire regions in …
- • location: Deux-Sèvres
- • elevation: 206 m (676 ft)
- Country: France
- Length: 82.5 km (51.3 mi)