Logis de La Vérie, Seigniorial residence in Challans, France

Logis de La Vérie is a two-storey stone residence in Challans, Vendée, with a steep slate roof, five tall brick chimneys and five dormer windows with white surrounds. A projecting wing with a hipped roof stands on the left, and a round-headed doorway sits in a slightly recessed section on the right. André Bouhier rebuilt it around the end of the 16th century, modelled on the château de Beaumarchais at Bretignolles.

The site's origins date to the 9th century, when it was fortified against Norman and Scandinavian raids; in 1130 it came under the Templars of Coudrie. André Bouhier, treasurer of Henri IV, bought it in the late 16th century and rebuilt it after the château de Beaumarchais at Bretignolles. Accused of plotting against the Republic in 1791, the baron de la Lézardière saw the château burned, destroying a south-west tower; the second, ruinous, was pulled down in 1848. The Boux de Casson family bought it in 1805.

The name Vérie is attached to a seigneurial estate held in 1400 by the knight Guillaume du Plantis through his wife Agnès de Frondebœuf. Near the château stands a stele honouring Jacques-Augustin Robert de Lézardière, a deacon martyred during the Revolution and beatified by Pius XI in 1926. Two sons born here, Ludovic and Olivier Boux de Casson, later became mayors of Challans.

The logis stands at the edge of the road from Challans to Soullans, in the Vendée. Its facades and roofs have been inscribed as monuments historiques since 1964, so it is seen from the public road; the building itself is private. A stele commemorating Jacques-Augustin Robert de Lézardière stands near the château.

On 19 February 1973 the logis was a relay stop for the commando that had stolen Marshal Philippe Pétain's coffin from the Île d'Yeu and was driving it toward Verdun. The coffin was taken from the island cemetery before dawn and the convoy paused here during the journey.