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On the border between the Vendée and Charentes-Maritimes departments, 13 km from Fontenay-le-Comte and 45 km from La Rochelle. Situated on the edge of the Poitevin Marshes, this 15th–16th-century medieval fortress—built on a site that had been strategically important since the 5th–6th centuries—controlled navigation on the Vendée River.It was modified in the 16th century by a prominent family under the direction of Jean Morisson, the architect of the Ch&acir ...