vendee

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In March, Christian Drouin, a French farmer in the Vendée, discovered that his chickens were dying of avian influenza.

From Science Magazine • May 11, 2022

The body of Olivier Lemaire was found in the village Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, a small village in the Vendée area, on Monday morning, French media report.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021

A western region of France, the Vendée, had been the site of the largest royalist insurrection against the Revolution in early 1793, featuring a rebel army of conservative peasants.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

Among them are areas of the Camargue on the Mediterranean, in Brittany both on the English Channel and along the Atlantic coast, and in the Vendée and Gironde, the area near Bordeaux.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 4, 2018

His grandfather was a poor fisherman of La Vendée, France, with twenty-one children.

From Famous Men of Science by Bolton, Sarah K.