Places linked to a character to visit Loire-Atlantique

Gerbetière is a noble house whose name comes from gerbernate, which used to name a place where the blades were stored and located just near the house. John James Audubon (1785-1851) was a multi-disciplinary man, both painter, scholar, scholar, poet and adventurer. Naturalist and famous animal artist, he spent his youth in Couëron. Its childhood home, La Gerbetière, is visible in the street that bears its name. Until 1821, she appeared on the Audubon family before being bought by the mayor of Couëron in 2003. The stay is only on the Heritage Days.

There was a plaque on the occasion of the 500 th anniversary of the death of François II, who died in this house. With Charles VIII, he signed the peace treaty between Brittany and France in 1488. In the church, just next door, stalls, classified in historical monuments, would come from Buzay abbey, located on the other bank of the Loire.

This bourgeois house belonged to the Pineau family, one of which was a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier. This was Charette's headquarters during the wars of Vendée in 1793. Consisting of 2 perpendicular wings, this building was divided into 2 houses. The door to the motto «Deus Spes Nostra» gave access to a stone staircase. The position of the house allowed the leak by the fields. A son Pineau was deputy of Charette (defence of Noirmoutier). Ms Francheteau, granddaughter of Ms Pineau, wrote in 1857: " Charette had arrived a few days after the insurgency. He established his headquarters in his grandmother's house, he played with the children and raised them in his arms to pick cherries… '»»»»