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Chavagnes-en-Paillers 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 Venerable 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 Father 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''. ==Statistics== *Altitude: 36 m (mini) – 92 m (maxi) *Area of the 'commune' of Chavagnes: 40,57 km² *Population: 2 963 hab (in 1999) *Population density: 73 inhabitants per square kilometre 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chavagnes-en-Paillers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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