Palluau
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region | Pays de la Loire | |
Department | Vendée | |
Arrondissement | La Roche-sur-Yon | |
Canton | Challans | |
Community association | Vie et Boulogne | |
Coordinates | 46 ° 48 ′ N , 1 ° 37 ′ W | |
height | 18-64 m | |
surface | 7.43 km 2 | |
Residents | 1,102 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 148 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 85670 | |
INSEE code | 85169 | |
Website | http://www.palluau.fr/ |
Palluau is a municipality with 1,102 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Vendée department in western France in the southwest of the Pays de la Loire region . The municipality belongs to the arrondissement of La Roche-sur-Yon and the canton of Challans (until 2015: canton Palluau ). The inhabitants are called Palludéens .
location
Palluau is about 21 kilometers northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon . Palluau is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Étienne-du-Bois in the north, Beaufou in the east, Le Poiré-sur-Vie in the southeast, La Chapelle-Palluau in the south and Saint-Paul-Mont-Penit in the west.
The former route nationale 178 (today's D978) runs through the municipality .
history
On May 15, 1793, the outnumbered republican troops defeated the royalist insurgents of the Vendée in a battle here.
Population development
year | 1800 | 1851 | 1901 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
Residents | 774 | 588 | 626 | 579 | 595 | 625 | 574 | 665 | 623 | 659 | 850 | 1,085 |
Source: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Saint-Gilles church, rebuilt in 1887
- Palluau Castle, built as a castle in the 13th century, converted into a castle in 1661, only preserved as a ruin, monument historique since 1998
Personalities
- Philippe de Clérambault (1606–1665), Marshal of France, Count of Palluau
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Vendée. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-118-X , pp. 714-716.