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Rh Vendée (La): A department in central western France; scene of the revolt of local peasants and Royalists against the French Republic in 1793–1795.

Vergniaud, Pierre Victurnien (1753–1793): Orator, revolutionist, president of the National Convention which sentenced Louis XVI to death, guillotined November 31, 1793.