FOUSSAIS-PAYRÉ

Heir to a Gallo-Roman villa whose owner was called Fuscius or Fusciacus, Foussais is home to a Romanesque gem: the portal of its Saint-Hilaire church.
During the Renaissance, the activity of the clothmakers, weavers and tanners endowed it with remarkable dwellings, scattered throughout the two market towns and the surrounding countryside, such as those at La Touche, La Riallière, La Fournière and Sérigny...
Often committed to the ideas of the Reformation, the craftsmen and merchants who exported their products to Germany and Holland rubbed shoulders with the humanist elites of Fontenay-le-Comte.
The family of François Viète, the famous mathematician, ran an inn here. Which may well have been the birthplace of François Viète, the inventor of modern algebra...