Mouilleron-en-Pareds

Mouilleron-en-Pareds
The church of Saint-Hilaire, in Mouilleron-en-Pareds The church of Saint-Hilaire, in Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Coat of arms of Mouilleron-en-Pareds Coat of arms
Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Location within Pays de la Loire region Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	Fontenay-le-Comte
Canton	Châtaigneraie
Intercommunality	Pays de la Châtaigneraie
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Michel Geevers
Area1	19.97 km2 (7.71 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	1,296
• Density	65/km2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	85154 / 85390
Elevation	60–182 m (197–597 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Mouilleron-en-Pareds is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is in the Fontenay-le-Comte arrondissement.

It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who contributed to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian), Georges Clemenceau (head of the French government during World War I and who signed the Treaty of Versailles with Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Woodrow Wilson) and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (who led the French First Army during the liberation of France with the Allied forces in 1945).

See also

• Communes of the Vendée department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Museum of Deux Victoires