Vendee

The Vendee is a branch in the Pays de la Loire place in west valuable France on the Atlantic Ocean. The name Vendee is taken from the Vendee River which runs through the southeastern part of the branch. The region today referred to as the Vendee become at first referred to as the Bas Poitou and is part of the former province of Poitou. In the southeast nook, the village of Nieul sur l Autise is thought to be the birthplace of Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122 to 1204. Eleanor son Richard I of England frequently had his base in Talmont. The Hundred Years War 1337 to 1453 turned tons of the Vendee right into a battleground.

Since the Vendee held a extensive variety of influential Protestants such as control through Jeanne d Albert mother of Henry IV of France, the location turned into significantly affected by the French Wars of Religion which broke out in 1562 and persevered till 1598. In April of that year King Henri IV issued the Edict of Nantes and the Wars got here to a cease. The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 induced many Huguenots to flee from the Vendee.