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Challans () is a
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in the
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.
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Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; ; br, Broioù al Liger) is one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" (). ...
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in western
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Challans station Challans is a railway station in Challans, Pays de la Loire, France. The station is located on the Nantes–La Roche-sur-Yon via Sainte-Pazanne railway. The station is served by TER (local) services operated by the SNCF The Société nation ...
has rail connections to Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie and Nantes.


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Notable people

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Pauline de Lézardière Marie-Charlotte-Pauline Robert de Lézardière, commonly known as Pauline de Lézardière, was a French historian who was born on 25 March 1754 at the Château de la Vérie (Challans) and died on 8 February 1835 at the Château de la Proustière ...
, born Challans, 25 March 1754, died Proustière Castle, Poiroux, 8 February 1835. Historian


Twin towns — sister cities

Challans is twinned with: *
Saronno Saronno (; lmo, Saronn ) is a ''comune'' of Lombardy, Italy, in the province of Varese. It received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree in 1960. With an estimated population of 39,351 inhabitants, it is the most densely populated ...
, Italy (2004)


See also

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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 Poitou Vendée communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Vendée-geo-stub