Le château de Sigournais est un château médiéval situé à Sigournais en Vendée, dans les alentours de Chantonnay. Il est classé monument historique depuis 1992 (partiellement depuis 1946).
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Sigournais is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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Saint-Germain-de-Prinçay is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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The canton of Chantonnay is an administrative division of the Vendée department, western France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Chantonnay.
It consists of the following communes:
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Chantonnay is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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The Battle of Chantonnay saw Royalist and Republican French forces clash at Chantonnay during the War in the Vendée. In the wake of his victory at Luçon, Augustin Tuncq sent 7,000 Republican troops under René François Lecomte to occupy an exposed position at Chantonnay. Reacting to the threat, 25,000 Vendeans rebels with 21 cannons led by Maurice d'Elbée and Charles de Bonchamps attacked and crushed the Republicans in a four-hour struggle in which François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers distinguished himself. Only 2,500 out of 7,500 Republicans escaped the disaster.