Île d'Yeu
Île d'Yeu is a French island just off the Vendée coast.
Its two harbours, Port-Joinville, and La Meule, located in a little loch of a wild granite coast, are famous for the fishing of tuna and crawfish.
Île d'Yeu attracted many painter artists like Jean Rigaud (1912-1999), official painter of the French Marine, who had a house there, and his friend Maurice Boitel (born 1919).
Its seaweeds were studied by the French marine scientist Françoise Ardré.
Philippe Pétain, the French wartime Vichy leader, died on the island in 1951 and was buried there.
Administratively, L'Île-d'Yeu is a commune of the Vendée département.
External links
- yeunet.com (in French)
Categories
Islands of France | Communes of Vendée