Memorial de la Vendee

Le Memorial de la Vendee was opened in 1993 to commemorate the bicentenary of the start of the Wars of the Vendee,the address was given by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Situated close to the Historial de la Vendee (vendee museum), it lies at the foot of a small hill which is topped by the chapel of Petit-Lucs. The path that leads up to the memorial has panels of some of the main figures involved, on the left side in French and on the right in English. A wooden bridge spans a moat leading into the state of the art memorial.
Vendee Memorial invites the visitor on a pilgrimage to a place that witnessed a page at a time tragic luminous in our history.
Inaugurated in 1993 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, it commemorates the massacre of 564 villagers of les Lucs-sur-Bologne in February 1794.
The compact building has no windows as it is a shrine. This Shrine, the Memorial to the Vendee will amaze the visitor, everything is allusive, suggested: everything is in shades, starting with buildings and the path that leads over the foot bridge. Inside the dim lit rooms are calm and cool, here the gentle sound of gently running water,else where silence, a moving experience, a  time to reflect
At the end of the memorial a door opens an you leave via another bridge over the river Bologny, the memory lane continues to the chapel of Petit Luc overlooking the building and where the names of the 564 victims of the massacre of les Lucs-sur-Boulogne are etched in marble.

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