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La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. Its inhabitants are called ''Yonnais''. ==History== The town expanded significantly after Napoleon I had chosen the site as the new préfecture of the Vendée on 25 May 1804, replacing Fontenay-le-Comte (then under its revolutionary name of Fontenay-le-Peuple). At the time, most of La Roche had been eradicated in the Vendée Revolt (1793–96); the renamed Napoléonville was laid out and a fresh population of soldiers and civil servants was brought in. Napoléonville was designed to accommodate 15,000 people.〔Graham Robb, ''The Discovery of France'', Picador, London (2007), pp257-8〕 The town was called successively: *La Roche-sur-Yon (during the Ancien Régime and the French First Republic) *Napoléon-sur-Yon (during the First French Empire) *Bourbon-Vendée (during the French Restoration) *Napoléon-Vendée (during the French Second Empire) 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「La Roche-sur-Yon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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