Holy-Florence (the Vendée)

See also: Holy-Florence

Holy-Florence-with-the Oie is a common French, located in the department of the the Vendée and the area Pays of the Loire. Celebrate crossroads and relay of station of Four-Way-in-the Oie (Nantes-Bordeaux/Paris them Sables of Olonne).

Geography

Located in the area of the Low-Scrap-metal, to rural prevalence and the timbered landscapes, it is announced in particular by the vast national forest of Herbergement, which owes its name with the Seigniory on which it depended with the Moyen-âge, the castle of Herbergement-Ydreau and whose oaks and charms cover more than 250 hectares.

History

At the time of the war of the Vendée, but already with the Revolution, the forest of Herbergement was the theater many combat between Républicains and Vendean, near Four-Way-in-the Oie. And it is there that, on December 8th, 1793, the Charrette general attacked and removed in half an hour a camp of 2000 Republicans.

Administration

Demography

Sites and monuments

  • Vestiges of a bronze layer
  • Vestiges (notorious site) of the castle of Herbergement-Ydreau: carry strengthened between two turns, ditches
  • Eglise of the 19th century
  • Manoir of the Large Home of the 16th century
  • Espace Chaissac, Muséographie Gaston Chaissac, located at the place even where lived the Chaissac family. Latrines painted by Chaissac in 1967, classified historic building, totems, joinings…

Personalities related to the commune

  • Gaston Chaissac, painter and atypical Sculptor, lived during 13 years with Holy-Florence where his wife was teacher. It wrote there, as from 1954, its Chroniques of the Goose for the New French Review.

See too

  • Common of the Vendée

External bonds

  • Holy-Florence on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Holy-Florence on the site of INSEE
  • Holy-Florence on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Holy-Florence on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Holy-Florence on Mapquest
  • * Official site of Holy Florence

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