Mervent () is a commune in the

Vendée Vendée () is a department in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France, on the Atlantic coast. In 2019, it had a population of 685,442.department in the

Pays de la Loire Pays de la Loire (; but can also mean 'Lower Loire') is one of the eighteen administrative regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital an ...

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in western

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Population

Places and monuments

* The

Château A château (, ; plural: châteaux) is a manor house, or palace, or residence of the lord of the manor, or a fine country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally, and still most frequently, in French-speaking re ...

de la Citardière * The Old Castle ruins in the

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* The

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Saint-Medard * The Mère

river A river is a natural stream of fresh water that flows on land or inside Subterranean river, caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river. A river may run dry before reaching the end of ...

. * The Mervent-Vouvant

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* The Pierre-Brune recreation park * The Natur'

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* The cave where

Louis de Montfort Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, SMM (; 31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Catholic priest known for his influence on Catholic Mariology. He wrote a number of books that went on to become classic Catholic titles, including '' Secre ...

(an 18th-century

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) prayed

Main sights

File:Eglise de Mervent.jpg, Mervent's

File:Forêt de Mervent.jpg, The

File:Lac de Mervent.jpg, Mervent's

lake A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...

File:W2369-Mervent ErmitageMontfort Grotte 37711.JPG, The

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of Louis de Monfort

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See also