Les Mattes 

A witness to the Vendée wars

On the road that leads from Le Pissot to Le Perrier, in the hamlet of Les Mattes, a monument stands in memory of Louis de la Rochejaquelein, who was killed there during the Vendée wars on 3rd June 1814.
Leader of the Vendée troops during the Hundred Day revolt, he fought for two weeks from Aizenay to Saint-Jean-de-Monts against the Bonapartists Travot and Estève before falling in combat.
A place for meditation and memory, the Les Mattes monument was restored by the commune of Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez under the control of the departmental museum department with the support of the Vendée Regional Council.