Saint-André-sur-Sèvre


Saint-André-sur-Sèvre is a commune located northwest of the Deux-Sèvres department, in western France.

Geography

This territory is called « Gâtine », and close to the limits of the Vendée in the « High-Bocage » Vendée.
The altitude ranges from 146 meters to 212 meters on the granite massif of the municipality, the average altitude is 179 meters.
The municipality's municipal area covers 1,985 hectares.

History

Hundred Years' War

The conflict between the Plantagenets and the Capetians, which opposed the English and the French, partly took place in Poitou, Normandy and Aquitaine.

War in the Vendée

In 1793, during the war in the Vendée: passage of the Infernal Columns to the castle of Saint-Mesmin; a courier from Parthenay announces that the enemy, the Republicans nicknamed the blues, surrounds Chataignieraie, then this army of the revolution seizes Reaumur, Montournay, Mouilleron, Chavaigne, Tillais and Saint-Mesmin.

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