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Commune of
Ludres
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Administration
Country France
ArrondissementFontenay-le-Comte
CantonFontenay-le-Comte
IntercommunalityCommunauté urbaine du Pays de Fontenay
MayorJean-Claude Remaud  (PS)
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude2m–68m
(avg. 24m)
Population
(1999)		13,792
 - Density (1999)405/km
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code85092/ 85200
Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).
Fontenay-le-Comte is a town and commune of western France. It is located in the Vendée département, for which it is the sous-préfecture, in the Pays de la Loire région. Population (1999): 13,792.

Geography

The Vendée River flows though the town. The town has an area of 34km².

History

Fontenay was in existence as early as the time of the Gauls. The affix of comte is said to have been applied to it when it was taken by King Louis IX from the family of Lusignan and given to his brother Alphonse, count of Poitou, under whom it became capital of Bas-Poitou. Ceded to the English by the Treaty of Brétigny, in 1360 it was retaken in 1372 by Duguesclin. It suffered repeated capture during the Religious Wars of the 16th century, was dismantled in 1621 and was occupied both by the Republicans and the Royalist Vendeans during the Revolt in the Vendée (1793). From 1790 to 1806 it was capital of the Vendée department.

Miscellaneous

The town now houses several foreign exchange students each year, notably from Norway and Sweden.

At Maison Laval on rue Rabelais, a townhouse built at the end of the 18th Century, Emperor Napoleon 1st and his wife, Joséphine, spent the night of August 7th and 8th, 1808. On their way from Rochefort to Nantes, they had stopped off in the Bas-Poitou capital of Fontenay-le-Comte where they were the guests of Mayor Laval who, to give them a dignified welcome, had prepared a triumphal arch over the Pont Neuf bridge. That night, the Emperor learned of the defeat of General Dupont at Bailem. The General's surrender, which seriously compromised the French army's position in Spain, threw the Emperor into a deep rage. If word is to be believed, the Emperor smashed an earthenware vase placed in front of him.

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