Palluau

Palluau
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 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

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  View of the Saint-Gilles church

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  Palluau castle ruins

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.

Web links

Commons : Palluau  - collection of images, videos and audio files