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Noirmoutier
Noirmoutier (also French: Île de Noirmoutier, ; br, Nervouster, ) is a tidal island off the Atlantic coast of France in the Vendée department (85). History Noirmoutier was the location of an early Viking raid in 799, when raiders attacked the monastery of Saint Philibert of Jumièges in 799. The Vikings established a permanent base on the island around 824, from which they could control southeast Brittany by the 840s. In 848, they sacked Bordeaux. From 862 until 882, Hastein used it as a base from which he raided Francia and Brittany. Noirmoutier was the site of several campaigns in the War of the Vendée, as well as a massacre and the place of execution of the Royalist Generalissimo Maurice D'Elbée, who faced the firing squad seated in a chair due to wounds accumulated from an earlier battle. St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier was born on this island on 31 July 1796. Geography The island comprises ten localities and four distinct Communes of France. Its length is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philibert Of Jumièges
Saint Philibert of Jumièges (c. 608–684) was an abbot and monastic founder, particularly associated with Jumièges Abbey. Life Philibert was born in Gascony, the only son of Filibaud, a magistrate of Vicus Julius (now Aire-sur-l'Adour). When he came of age he was given a place at the court of Dagobert I at Metz, where he met Saints Ouen and Wandregisel. He received permission of the king to become a monk and entered the monastery of Rebais, which had been founded by Ouen and his brothers on land donated by the king. In 650, he succeeded his friend Agilus as abbot, but internal disagreements arose as to the more or less rigorous practice of the rule of Columbanus. He left and spent some time traveling round monasteries studying their Rules and constitutions. Jumièges In 654, through the influence of Queen Balthild of Chelles, Philibert received a gift of land from Clovis II on which he founded Notre Dame de Jumièges. He drew up a Rule based on his studies for this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vendée
Vendée (; br, Vande) is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.Populations légales 2019: 85 Vendée INSEE Its prefecture is . History The area today called the Vendée was originally known as the ''Bas-Poitou'' and is part of the former province of Poitou. In the southeast corner, the village of[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (31 July 1796 in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île – 24 April 1868 in Angers), born Rose Virginie Pelletier, was a French Roman Catholic nun, best known as the foundress of the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd. Pelletier was born on an island off the coast of France where her parents had been exiled by the French Revolutionaries. She was christened ''Rose Virginie Pelletier'' and at the age of eighteen joined the Order of Our Lady of Charity who cared for girls and women in difficulty. Some of the girls were abandoned by their families or orphaned, some had turned to prostitution in order to survive. The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity provided shelter, food, vocational training and an opportunity for these girls and women to turn their lives around. Pelletier formed the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd to expand this apostolate to wherever needed. Pelletier died in Angers, France, in 1868 and was canonized by Pope Piu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Les Sables-d'Olonne
The arrondissement of Les Sables-d'Olonne is an arrondissement of France in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region. It has 71 communes. Its population is 235,082 (2016), and its area is . Composition The communes of the arrondissement of Les Sables-d'Olonne, and their INSEE codes, are: # Les Achards (85152) # L'Aiguillon-la-Presqu'île (partly)(85001) # L'Aiguillon-sur-Vie (85002) # Angles (85004) # Avrillé (85010) # Barbâtre (85011) # La Barre-de-Monts (85012) # Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche (85016) # Beauvoir-sur-Mer (85018) # Le Bernard (85022) # Bois-de-Céné (85024) # La Boissière-des-Landes (85026) # Bouin (85029) # Brem-sur-Mer (85243) # Bretignolles-sur-Mer (85035) # La Chaize-Giraud (85045) # Challans (85047) # Le Champ-Saint-Père (85050) # La Chapelle-Hermier (85054) # Châteauneuf (85062) # Coëx (85070) # Commequiers (85071) # Curzon (85077) # L'Épine (85083) # Le Fenouiller (85088) # Froidfond (85095) # La Garnache (85096) # Le Girouard ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbâtre
Barbâtre () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Geography The altitude of the commune of Barbâtre lies between 0 and 19 meters. The area of the commune is 12.47 km2. Arms The arms of the commune feature a counterchanged sun without face on a blue and gold field divided horizontally ("per fess") in waves; the French blazon is ''coupé ondé d'azur et d'or, au soleil non figuré de l'un en l'autre''. See also * Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of the 257 communes of the Vendée department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022):Communes of Vendée [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tidal Island
A tidal island is a piece of land that is connected to the mainland by a natural or man-made causeway that is exposed at low tide and submerged at high tide. Because of the mystique surrounding tidal islands, many of them have been sites of place of worship, religious worship, such as Mont-Saint-Michel with its Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine Abbey. Tidal islands are also commonly the sites of fortification, fortresses because of their natural fortifications. List of tidal islands Asia Hong Kong * Ma Shi Chau in Tai Po District, northeastern New Territories, within the Tolo Harbour *Kiu Tau Island in Sai Kung Iran * Naaz islands in Persian gulf, southern seashore of Qeshm island Japan * Enoshima, in Sagami Bay, Kanagawa Prefecture Taiwan * Kueibishan in Penghu * Jiangong Islet in Kinmen South Korea *Jindo Island and Modo, Jindo, Modo Island in southwest South Korea *Jebudo in the west Europe Denmark * Mandø Island – on Denmark's western coast * Knudshoved Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
The () is a level of administrative division in the French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipalities in the United States and Canada, ' in Germany, ' in Italy, or ' in Spain. The United Kingdom's equivalent are civil parishes, although some areas, particularly urban areas, are unparished. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the municipal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generalissimo
''Generalissimo'' ( ) is a military rank of the highest degree, superior to field marshal and other five-star ranks in the states where they are used. Usage The word (), an Italian term, is the absolute superlative of ('general') thus meaning "the highest-ranking of all generals". The superlative suffix itself derives from Latin , meaning "utmost, to the highest grade". Similar cognates in other languages include in Spanish, in Portuguese, in French, and in Latin. Historically this rank was given to a military officer leading an entire army or the entire armed forces of a state, usually only subordinate to the sovereign. The military leader Albrecht von Wallenstein in 1632 was the first imperial generalissimo (general of the generals). Other usage of the rank has been for the commander of the united armies of several allied powers and if a senior military officer becomes the head of state or head of government of a nation like Chiang Kai-Shek in China and later in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salt Marsh
A salt marsh or saltmarsh, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is dominated by dense stands of salt-tolerant plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. Salt marshes play a large role in the aquatic food web and the delivery of nutrients to coastal waters. They also support terrestrial animals and provide coastal protection. Salt marshes have historically been endangered by poorly implemented coastal management practices, with land reclaimed for human uses or polluted by upstream agriculture or other industrial coastal uses. Additionally, sea level rise caused by climate change is endangering other marshes, through erosion and submersion of otherwise tidal marshes. However, r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Dealbata
''Acacia dealbata'', the silver wattle, blue wattle or mimosa, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae, native to southeastern Australia in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and the Australian Capital Territory, and widely introduced in Mediterranean, warm temperate, and highland tropical landscapes.Australian Plant Name Index''Acacia dealbata''/ref> Description It is a fast-growing evergreen tree or shrub growing up to 30 m tall, typically a pioneer species after fire. The leaves are bipinnate, glaucous blue-green to silvery grey, 1–12 cm (occasionally to 17 cm) long and 1–11 cm broad, with 6–30 pairs of pinnae, each pinna divided into 10–68 pairs of leaflets; the leaflets are 0.7–6 mm long and 0.4–1 mm broad. The flowers are produced in large racemose inflorescences made up of numerous smaller globose bright yellow flowerheads of 13–42 individual flowers. The fruit is a flattened pod 2–11.5 cm long and 6– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War In The Vendée
The war in the Vendée (french: link=no, Guerre de Vendée) was a counter-revolution from 1793 to 1796 in the Vendée region of France during the French Revolution. The Vendée is a coastal region, located immediately south of the river Loire in Western France. Initially, the revolt was similar to the 14th-century Jacquerie peasant uprising, but the Vendée quickly became counter-revolutionary and Royalist. The revolt headed by the newly-formed Catholic and Royal Army was comparable to the Chouannerie, which took place in the area north of the Loire. While elsewhere in France the revolts against the were repressed, an insurgent territory, called the by historians, formed south of the Loire-Inférieure (Brittany), south-west of Maine-et-Loire (Anjou), north of Vendée and north-west of Deux-Sèvres ( Poitou). Gradually referred to as the "Vendeans", the insurgents established in April a " Catholic and Royal Army" which won a succession of victories in the spring and summ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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