Coordinates: 46°43′30″N 2°20′49″W

Île d'Yeu
Île d'Yeu (French pronunciation: [il djø]) is an island and commune
just off the Vendée coast of western France. The island's two L'Île-d'Yeu
harbors, Port-Joinville in the north and Port de la Meule to the south,
Commune
in a rocky inlet of the southern granite coast, are famous for tuna and
lobster fishing, respectively.

Administratively, the commune of L'Île-d'Yeu is part of the Vendée

department and the Pays de la Loire region of France.

Contents
History
Transport A satellite image of the island

Climate
Gallery
See also
References Coat of arms
External links Location of L'Île-d'Yeu

History
Neolithic markings in the
native stone and an unusual
concentration of megalithic
dolmens and menhirs attest
to the island's early sanctity.
Irish monks from Bangor,
County Down, dedicated
their monastery on the Île
d'Yeu to Hilaire; Saint
Amand from Poitou
received early training there, but it
was destroyed by Viking raiders in
the ninth century.
L'Île-d'Yeu

During the tenth century, monks

from Marmoutier near Tours and
monks of Saint-Cyprien at Poitiers
built a new monastery and dedicated
it to Saint Stephen. The castle built
on an islet linked to the coast by a
bridge is first mentioned in 1356.

Since the nineteenth century Île

An aerial view of Port de la
d'Yeu has attracted many artists.
Meule
Jean Rigaud (1912–1999), official
painter to the French Navy, had a
house there, as did Maurice Boitel (1919–2007). Jean Dufy (1888-
1964) made about twenty paintings of l'Ile d'Yeu during several
summer stays between 1926 and 1930.

Philippe Pétain, the proclaimed hero of Verdun during World War I

who later became the leader of France's wartime collaborationist
Vichy régime, was sentenced to life imprisonment for treason on Île
d'Yeu. He died in a private home in Port-Joinville in 1951, and is
buried in the local cemetery (Cimetière communal de Port-
Joinville).[2]
L'Île-d'Yeu
The poet Marc-Adolphe Guégan, an early French exponent of haiku,
lived on the island until his death in 1959.

The island's seaweeds have been the subject of studies by the French Coordinates: 46°43′30″N 2°20′49″W
marine biologist Françoise Ardré.
Country France
The children's author Ludwig Bemelmans, who summered on the Region Pays de la Loire
island, took inspiration from a hospital stay after a bicycle crash for Department Vendée
his first Madeline book, published in 1939. Arrondissement Les Sables-
d'Olonne
A two year pilot program, called Harmon’Yeu, was initiated in the Canton L'Île-d'Yeu
Spring of 2020 to interconnect 23 houses in the Ker Pissot Area1 23.32 km2
neighborhood and surrounding areas with a microgrid that was (9.00 sq mi)
automated as a smart grid with software from Engie. Sixty-four solar Population (2017)[1] 4,809
panels with a peak capacity of 23.7 kW were installed on five houses • Density 210/km2
and a battery with a storage capacity of 15 kWh was installed on one (530/sq mi)
house. Six houses store excess solar energy in their hot water heaters.
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
A dynamic system apportions the energy provided by the solar
• Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
panels and stored in the battery and hot water heaters to the system of
23 houses. The smart grid software dynamically updates energy INSEE/Postal code 85113 (https://www.i
nsee.fr/fr/statistique
supply and demand in 5 minute intervals, deciding whether to pull s/1405599?geo=CO
energy from the battery or from the panels and when to store it in the M-85113) /85350
hot water heaters. This pilot program was the first such project in
Elevation 0–32 m (0–105 ft)
France.[3][4] (avg. 20 m or 66 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which
Transport excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2
(0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river
estuaries.
The island is reached by ferry from Fromentine or Saint-Gilles-
Croix-de-Vie. Air transportation is available at Île d'Yeu Aerodrome
(IATA: IDY, ICAO: LFEY), with commercial service from Nantes Airport.

Climate
Île d'Yeu has an oceanic climate (Köppen: Cfb) with mild weather year-round and significantly more precipitation in
winter than in summer.
 Climate data for Île d'Yeu (1981–2010 averages)

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

Record high 15.4 16.4 23.1 26.3 30.6 35.2 34.8 35.1 32.9 26.0 20.1 16.8 35.2
°C (°F) (59.7) (61.5) (73.6) (79.3) (87.1) (95.4) (94.6) (95.2) (91.2) (78.8) (68.2) (62.2) (95.4)

Average 9.7 9.9 12.2 14.4 17.6 20.5 22.6 22.9 20.9 17.2 13.2 10.4 16.0
high °C (°F) (49.5) (49.8) (54.0) (57.9) (63.7) (68.9) (72.7) (73.2) (69.6) (63.0) (55.8) (50.7) (60.8)

Average low 5.3 4.8 6.5 8.0 11.1 13.7 15.5 15.6 13.9 11.8 8.4 6.0 10.1
°C (°F) (41.5) (40.6) (43.7) (46.4) (52.0) (56.7) (59.9) (60.1) (57.0) (53.2) (47.1) (42.8) (50.2)

Record low −9.8 −9.4 −7.1 0.2 2.8 5.4 9.1 10.0 5.5 1.8 −3.5 −7.9 −9.8
°C (°F) (14.4) (15.1) (19.2) (32.4) (37.0) (41.7) (48.4) (50.0) (41.9) (35.2) (25.7) (17.8) (14.4)

Average
83.7 62.3 57.9 57.8 57.7 40.0 38.0 36.9 61.9 91.9 91.6 90.1 769.8
precipitation
(3.30) (2.45) (2.28) (2.28) (2.27) (1.57) (1.50) (1.45) (2.44) (3.62) (3.61) (3.55) (30.31)
mm (inches)

Average
precipitation 13.2 10.3 10.4 10.1 9.4 6.7 7.3 6.2 8.1 12.3 13.5 13.9 121.3
days

Average
relative
88 87 84 83 84 82 81 82 83 86 86 88 84.5
humidity
(%)

Mean
monthly
74.7 111.2 149.2 201.3 231.2 252.5 274.7 260.3 195.5 137.6 94.0 72.1 2,053.8
sunshine
hours

Source 1: Meteo France[5][6]

Source 2: Infoclimat.fr (humidity, 1961–1990)[7]

Gallery

Le Port de la Meule La pointe des La plage des Sapins Beach with the Old
(Stack Harbor) Corbeaux (Crows' (Fir Tree Beach) Castle in the back
Edge)

La pointe du But Port-Joinville

See also
Vieux-château de l'Île d'Yeu
Communes of the Vendée department
Bemelmans, Ludwig (1985). The Isle of God (or Madelines's Origin) Tell Them It Was Wonderful:
Selected Writings by Ludwig Bemelmans. Marciano.

References
1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017 (https://www.insee.fr/fr/statisti
ques/fichier/4265429/ensemble.pdf), INSEE
2. Paxton, Robert O. (1982). Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940–1944, pp. 36–37. Columbia
University Press. ISBN 0-231-12469-4.
3. Joel Spaes (July 3, 2020). "Harmon'Yeu, première communauté énergétique à l'Île d'Yeu, signée
Engie" (https://www.pv-magazine.fr/2020/07/03/harmonyeu-premiere-communaute-energetique-a-lile-
dyeu-signee-engie/). www.pv-magazine.fr. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
4. Nabil Wakim (December 16, 2020). "A L'Ile-d'Yeu, soleil pour tous… ou presque" (https://www.lemond
e.fr/economie/article/2020/12/16/a-l-ile-d-yeu-soleil-pour-tous-ou-presque_6063523_3234.html).
www.lemonde.fr. Retrieved January 27, 2021.
5. "Données climatiques de la station de Beaucouzé" (http://www.meteofrance.com/climat/france/l-ile-dye
u/85113001/normales) (in French). Meteo France. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
6. "Climat Pays de la Loire" (http://www.meteofrance.com/climat/france/pays-de-la-loire/regi52/normales)
(in French). Meteo France. Retrieved January 9, 2016.
7. "Normes et records 1961-1990: Ile d'Yeu - St Sauveur (85) - altitude 32m" (http://www.infoclimat.fr/clim
atologie-07300-ile-d-yeu-st-sauveur.html) (in French). Infoclimat. Retrieved January 9, 2016.

External links
Official site for the tourism office and commune of the Ile d'Yeu (http://www.ile-yeu.fr/) (in French)
La Gazette de L'île d'Yeu (http://www.gazette-iledyeu.fr)

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