La Roche-sur-yon

Town, capital of Vend�e d�partement, Pays de la Loire r�gion, western France, south of Nantes. The Vend�e region had been pacified at the time of the French Revolution but still remained disaffected after the counterrevolutionary insurrection of 1793; Napoleon in 1804 established a military and administrative town in the centre of the d�partement. It was built on the site