Travel Guide L'Ile-D'Elle

The origin of the name would come from Latin insula island and perhaps from du illa, term of hydronymie meaning river or river arm. According to a tenacious, but false legend, Henri IV, passing to Marans would have donated to his mistress Corisande of the place, now island to Her. The highest of the old Gulf, named after the th century, Gulf of Pictons, the island of Ella becomes the island of Her. The discovery of polished stone axes shows that the commune was inhabited from the Neolithic. Vestiges of the Gallo-Roman era of the th and th centuries were found several times. The island appears in the texts in the th century, mentioned in the form of Ella and then called Insula of Ella in the th century. It depends on the parish of Marans in Highest and owns the Saint Hilaire priory, which belongs to the abbey of Maillezais. Until the th century, its territory was held by the Lord of Marans, the Territoire and the prior of the place. The Revolution left the island of La Highest de l'Highest in 1791 to make it a municipality of the newly created Vendée department. The town was known for its important basketry activity, which has almost 200 bottles in the th century, and pottery since it is the swamp that is extracted from the clay which is the alimente and brick.