Mouilleron-en-Pareds

Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Part of Mouilleron-Saint-Germain
The church of Saint-Hilaire, in Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 46°40′36″N 0°51′00″W / 46.6767°N 0.85°W / 46.6767; -0.85Coordinates: 46°40′36″N 0°51′00″W / 46.6767°N 0.85°W / 46.6767; -0.85
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	Fontenay-le-Comte
Canton	La Châtaigneraie
Commune	Mouilleron-Saint-Germain
Area 1	19.97 km2 (7.71 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	1,372
• Density	69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	85390
Elevation	60–182 m (197–597 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mouilleron-en-Pareds is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Mouilleron-Saint-Germain.^[2] It is in the arrondissement of Fontenay-le-Comte.

It is known as the place of birth of Charles-Louis Largeteau (who contributed to the establishment of the Greenwich Meridian), Georges Clemenceau (head of the French government during World War I and who signed the Treaty of Versailles with Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Woodrow Wilson) and Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny (who led the French First Army during the liberation of France with the Allied forces in 1945).

See also[]

• Communes of the Vendée department

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