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La Copechagnière (French pronunciation: [la kɔpʃaɲɛʁ]) is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Les Brouzils (French pronunciation: [le bʁuzil]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Its coat of arms has a wolf, which symbolizes bravery.

Chauché (French pronunciation: [ʃoʃe]) is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

L'Herbergement (French pronunciation: [lɛʁbɛʁʒəmɑ̃]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Dompierre-sur-Yon (French pronunciation: [dɔ̃pjɛʁ syʁ jɔ̃], literally Dompierre on Yon) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ sylpis lə vɛʁdɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Montréverd.

La Rabatelière (French pronunciation: [la ʁabat(ə)ljɛʁ]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Montréverd (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃tʁevɛʁ]) is a commune in the department of Vendée, western France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Saint-André-Treize-Voies, Mormaison and Saint-Sulpice-le-Verdon.

Saint-André-Treize-Voies (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿ɑ̃dʁe tʁɛz vwa]) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Montréverd.

Mormaison (French pronunciation: [mɔʁmɛzɔ̃]) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Montréverd.

Chavagnes-en-Paillers (French pronunciation: [ʃavaɲ ɑ̃ paje]) is a commune of the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Chavagnes en Paillers is known as one of the two villes saintes (holy towns) of the Vendée. (The other is Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre). It is home to the mother-houses of two religious congregations: the Sons of Mary Immaculate and the Ursulines of Jesus, both founded by the Roman Catholic priest Louis-Marie Baudouin in about 1802 in the wake of the French Revolution (1789) and the War in the Vendée (mainly 1793-1796). Still present also in Chavagnes is the seminary Baudouin founded for the training of boys and men destined for the priesthood. It was the first junior seminary to be approved in France after the Revolution. It now continues as Chavagnes International College, an international Catholic boarding school for boys, teaching through the medium of English. The word Chavagnes is thought to come from the dog Latin cabanas, meaning cabins. The inhabitants are known as Chavagnais.

The Chavagnes Studium is an English-speaking international centre for the study of the Liberal Arts, founded in 2002 as part of Chavagnes International College, an educational institution in the Vendée in the west of France. The Studium supports the postgraduate work of the Fellows of the college, is involved in adult education and also organises seminars and conferences open to the public. From September 2018 the Studium offers, in conjunction with the Institut catholique d'études supérieures, a local Catholic university, a UK-validated Bachelor of Arts degree in the Liberal Arts with French, based on the model followed by Liberal Arts Colleges in the United States.