The Vendee Region as a Concept of Culture
The region of Vendйe is associated with the peasant counter-revolutionary guerrilla war and its suppression by republicans. Meanwhile the notion of the Vendйe embraces more than one region, has a strong emotional connotation and represents a cultural concept. It is refl ected in fi ction (V. Hugo, A.I. Solzhenitsyn), dictionaries, textbooks, folklore, local toponyms.