Things to see and do Legé

Official memorial to the memory of General Charette and his fighters in Vendée (1824 by Charles X). The laying of the first stone took place in 1825 by the daughter of Louis XVI represented by Mrs. Charette de la Contrie. The raised the originally hosted a statue of Charette destroyed in 1832 after the uprising attempted by the Duchess of Berry. The chapel was completed in 1840, the clocheton is crowned by the statue of Saint Michel down the dragon. The monument to the dead dates back to 1922. On the side of the chapel, one crosses a cross of the old cemetery and an Austrian cannon in the course of taking the war.

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… '»»»»