Chavagnes-en-Paillers

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Chavagnes-en-Paillers

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Chavagnes-en-Paillers
Coordinates: 46°53′36″N 1°15′05″W / 46.8933°N 1.2514°W / 46.8933; -1.2514Coordinates: 46°53′36″N 1°15′05″W / 46.8933°N 1.2514°W / 46.8933; -1.2514
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Vendée
Arrondissement La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton Saint-Fulgent
Intercommunality Canton de Saint-Fulgent
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Éric Salaün
Area
 • Land1 40.57 km2 (15.66 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Population2 3,291
 • Population2 Density 81/km2 (210/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 85065 / 85250
Elevation 36–92 m (118–302 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Chavagnes-en-Paillers is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Chavagnes en Paillers is known as one of the two villes saintes (holy towns) of the Vendée. (The other is Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre). It is home to the mother-houses of two religious congregations: the Sons of Mary Immaculate and the Ursulines of Jesus, both founded by the Venerable Louis-Marie Baudouin in about 1802 in the wake of the French Revolution (1789) and the War in the Vendée (mainly 1793-1796).

Still present also in Chavagnes is the seminary Father Baudouin founded for the training of boys and men destined for the priesthood. It was the first junior seminary to be approved in France after the Revolution. It now continues as Chavagnes International College, an international Catholic boarding school for boys, teaching through the medium of English.

The word Chavagnes is thought to come from the dog Latin cabanas, meaning cabins. The inhabitants are known as Chavagnais.

Statistics

  • Altitude: 36 m (mini) – 92 m (maxi)
  • Area of the 'commune' of Chavagnes: 40,57 km²
  • Population: 2 963 hab (in 1999)
  • Population density: 73 inhabitants per square kilometre

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