Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne

Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne
region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton	Aizenay
Community association	Vie et Boulogne
Coordinates	46 ° 51 ′ N , 1 ° 30 ′ W Coordinates: 46 ° 51 ′ N , 1 ° 30 ′ W
height	29-80 m
surface	53.15 km 2
Residents	3,463 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	65 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	85170
INSEE code	85129
Website	http://www.ville-leslucssurboulogne.fr/

Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne is a French municipality with 6005 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Vendée in the region of Pays de la Loire ; it belongs to the arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon and the canton of Aizenay . The inhabitants are called Beucquots-Lucquois (es) .

geography

Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne is located on the Boulogne River . Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Rocheservière in the north, Mormaison and Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon in the northeast, Saint-Denis-la-Chevasse in the east, Saligny in the southeast, Beaufou in the south and southwest, and Saint-Étienne -du-Bois in the west and Legé in the northwest.

history

During the revolutionary years, the Lucs-sur-Boulogne massacre took place here in 1794, when Republican troops murdered between 500 and 1000 civilians in the town. In 1993, the Vendée Memorial was unveiled as a monument against totalitarianism by Alexander Solzhenitsyn .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2011
Residents	2.142	2,068	2.213	2,342	2,629	2,702	3.113	3,289

Attractions

Saints-Pierre-et-Paul church
Old priest house of Petit-Luc, monument historique since 1958
Wall castle and castle complex, monument historique since 1988
Petit-Luc Chapel
Vendée Memorial

Church of St. Peter and Paul

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 747-751.

Web links

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