Les Essarts (French: [lez‿esaʁ]) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

During the war in the Vendée, on 25 June 1795, a battle took place in the Les Essarts fort.

Charette hired Louis Pageot, one of his lieutenants, to surprise the garrison of Les Essarts.

Then, the first fort in Les Essarts (a wooden castle) was made at the feudal period.

The previous train station: In 1898, a railroad was built to link Cholet to Les Sables d’Olonne.

The town of Les Essarts was a stage city of the Tour de France in 2005 and in 2011.

Then, on 3 July 2011, the 2nd stage of the Tour de France 2011, a team-time trial which had Les Essarts as a starting and an ending point!

The departure was in the Old Castle, then they went to Boulogne, Dompierre-sur-Yon and La Merlatière, and came back to les Essarts.