Editing Vendée (section)

== Culture ==
The [[War in the Vendée]] is the subject of ''[[Ninety-Three]]'' (''Quatrevingt-treize''), the last novel by the French writer [[Victor Hugo]], an episode in ''[[Mr. Midshipman Hornblower]]'' and also the backdrop of ''[[Les Chouans]]'' by [[Balzac]].

In the writings of [[Karl Marx]] regarding revolutionary struggles in various countries, he uses the term "a Vendée" as meaning "a focus of persistent counter-revolutionary activities". [[Vladimir Lenin]], when speaking about [[Cossacks]] as potential counter-revolutionary opposition, identified them as ''Russian Vendée''.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xxGttzFXqaYC  |title=Lenin's Terror: The Ideological Origins of Early Soviet State Violence |author=James Ryan |year=2012|isbn=9780415673969 }}</ref>[[Image:vignebrem.JPG|thumb|300x300px|right|A vine in [[Brem-sur-Mer]].]]

===Cuisine===

*''Jambon-mogettes'' (ham and white beans) is the most famous Vendean dish.
*The department is the largest brioche producer in France, with the ''Brioche de Vendée'' made in the [[Bocage]].
*In the Plain of [[Luçon]], [[préfou]] is a garlic bread that can be served as an [[aperitif]].
*In the [[marshland]] of the North-West, the ''poultry of Challans'', especially [[duck]], is well known in the gastronomic world.
*The department has several small [[vineyard]]s, around [[Brem-sur-Mer]], [[Mareuil-sur-Lay-Dissais]], [[Vix, Vendée|Vix]], and [[Pissotte]].