Along an educational path, discover:

• The history of the ancient island of Rié,
• The history of the Battle of Île Rié with the presence of Louis XIII on 16 April 1622,
• The story of the Battle of the Mathes and the death of the Vendée generalissimo, Louis de La Rochejaquelein, on 4 June 1815. On this promontory of the former island of Rié, the dunes and marshes invite to the memory of the Wars of Vendée. Catholics and Protestants in the seventeenth century, royalists and Bonapartists in the nineteenth, men fought in this place for their religion or their ideals.
  In this former island of Lower Poitou, six years before the Great Siege of La Rochelle, Louis XIII had inflicted a heavy defeat on the Protestant armies of the West. Two centuries later, during the Hundred Days episode, General Louis de La Rochejaquelein of Vendée had fallen in battle on these same battlefields, without having managed to restore Louis XVIII to the throne.