Vendée department

Vendée
region	Pays de la Loire
prefecture	La Roche-sur-Yon
Sub-prefecture (s)	Fontenay-le-Comte, Les Sables-d'Olonne
Residents	675,247 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	100 inhabitants per km²
surface	6,760.52 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	19th
Cantons	17th
Communities	258
President of the Department Council	Yves Auvinet
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-85
Location of the Vendée department in the region of Pays de la Loire

The Vendée [ vɑde ] is the French department with the atomic number 85. It is in the west of the country in the Region Pays de la Loire and is named after the river Vendée named.

geography

The Vendée department borders the Loire-Atlantique , Maine-et-Loire , Deux-Sèvres and Charente-Maritime departments as well as the Atlantic Ocean .

coat of arms

Description: In silver, the red sign of the uprising Vendée surrounded by 12 times blue and red gestückten board with the golden lily and a golden padlock changing.

history

The department was formed on March 4, 1790 from part of the province of Poitou and largely corresponds to the Bas-Poitou (i.e. Lower Poitou ).

In March 1793, the Vendée was the starting point for an uprising against the French Revolution . Under the sign of heart and cross , the rural population fought against the forced recruitment of the Parisian revolutionary parliament. The peasants loyal to the Church and the King in western France, in Brittany and in the Vendée, the area south of the Loire estuary, had already mostly sided with the oath-refusing priests in the dispute over the civil constitution of the clergy. The in their eyes monstrous execution of the king on January 21, 1793 intensified their opposition to the revolution. An armed uprising broke out when the convention ordered a mass recruitment campaign due to the precarious war situation against the absolutist princes of Europe. This measure hit the farmers particularly hard in view of the harvest and field work. An initially victorious "Catholic and Royal Army" formed against these levies under the leadership of young aristocrats. It was only when the battle-hardened troops from the east of France intervened in the fighting that the Catholic-Royal army could be defeated. The government troops carried out a brutal campaign of revenge even after this victory. They burned entire villages and murdered their residents.

The department has belonged to the Pays de la Loire region since 1960 .

Cities

The most populous communes in the Vendée are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
La Roche-sur-Yon	54,372	La Roche-sur-Yon
Les Sables-d'Olonne	44,017	Les Sables-d'Olonne
Challans	20,622	Les Sables-d'Olonne
Montaigu-Vendée	20,126	La Roche-sur-Yon
Les Herbiers	15,958	La Roche-sur-Yon
Fontenay-le-Comte	13,226	Fontenay-le-Comte
Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez	11,169	Les Sables-d'Olonne
Luçon	9,540	Fontenay-le-Comte
Aizenay	9,510	La Roche-sur-Yon
Essarts en Bocage	8,931	La Roche-sur-Yon

Administrative division

The Vendée department is divided into 3 arrondissements and 258 communes :

Communes and arrondissements in the Vendée department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Fontenay-le-Comte	6th	110	141,343	2,326.68	61	851
La Roche-sur-Yon	9	77	296.041	2,500.90	118	852
Les Sables-d'Olonne	7th	71	237,863	1,932.94	123	853
Vendée department	17th	258	675.247	6,760.52	100	85

See also:

• List of communes in the Vendée department
• List of cantons in the Vendée department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Vendée department

economy

The most important branch of the economy is tourism , especially on the 200 km long Atlantic coast.

climate

Measurement station: Saint-Sauveur ( Île d'Yeu ) - 20 kilometers from the mainland, but still meaningful.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Saint-Sauveur Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 9 9 11 14th 17th 20th 22nd 22nd 20th 17th 13 10 O 15.4 Min. Temperature (° C) 4th 5 6th 7th 10 13 15th 15th 14th 11 8th 6th O 9.5 Precipitation ( mm ) 78 70 60 45 48 37 40 50 60 70 90 85 Σ 733 Rainy days ( d ) 13 11 10 8th 9 7th 6th 7th 9 9 13 13 Σ 115 Water temperature (° C) 10 9 10 12 14th 16 18th 19th 18th 17th 14th 12 O 14.1 T e m p e r a t u r 9 4th 9 5 11 6th 14th 7th 17th 10 20th 13 22nd 15th 22nd 15th 20th 14th 17th 11 13 8th 10 6th Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec N i e d e r s c h l a g 78 70 60 45 48 37 40 50 60 70 90 85   Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Source:

maritime climate data	J	F.	M.	A.	M.	J	J	A.	S.	O	N	D.
Number of very sunny days	2.5	3	4.5	6th	5	6th	8th	5	5	3.5	2	2
Number of days with an overcast sky	16	12	12	9	9	7th	7th	6th	9	12	14th	15th

Days per year (as of 1991) with

• Rainfalls over 1 mm: 115
• Frost: 12
  • First frost: mid-December
  • Last frost: late February
• Snow: 2
• Thunderstorm: 6
• Hail: 3

Web links

Commons : Département Vendée  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Département Vendée (French)
• Prefecture of the Vendée (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.vendee.fr/Conseil-departemental/Organigramme accessed on April 26, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b} Climate data from: Jean-Noël Darde: Plages et côtes de France . Éditions Balland, Paris 1991 (French).

Coordinates: 46 ° 39 ′  N , 1 ° 23 ′  W