Auray, a small town in the department Morbihan

pleine Vendée, 'in the middle of La Vendée.' This was the district where the ideas of the Révolution were so 111 received that a three years' war (1793 — 1796) between the Republicans and the Royalists resulted. The country people held fast to the nobility and to their priests, and were only subdued after great bloodshed.