Mémorial de la Vendée, Memorial site in Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France.

The Mémorial de la Vendée is a low, grey complex of four dark quartzite blocks with tall, flat-faced concrete panels and vertical seams, set beside the Boulogne and the Historial de la Vendée. A recessed section on the right has a brown slatted screen, and a raised walkway with a thin metal railing runs along the front. Inside are four themed rooms, including one with a sand tray and screen and another with a bare cube and small standing stones.

The memorial commemorates an event on February 28, 1794, when over 560 residents from two neighboring communities lost their lives during a military attack. This incident was part of a broader period of conflict in the region.

The chapel of Petit-Luc, at the end of the Chemin de la Mémoire, bears 22 marble tables listing the names of those killed on the night of 28 February 1794. The list was drawn from a register kept by the parish priest Charles Vincent Barbedette and rediscovered by curé Jean Bart, who restored the chapel in 1867.

The memorial stands beside the Boulogne, next to the Historial de la Vendée, and marks the start of the Chemin de la Mémoire. That path crosses a footbridge over the river and then climbs the hill to the Chapelle du Petit-Luc, where 22 marble tables list the victims of 28 February 1794. Allow time for the walk and the reading.

The memorial was inaugurated on 25 September 1993 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn before a crowd of 30,000. It is also intended as a memorial to all victims of totalitarianism, not only those of the Vendée wars. From here the Chemin de la Mémoire leads to the Chapelle du Petit-Luc.