 The Lucs-on-Boulogne is famous for the massacre of its population, according to some historians on 28 February 1794, by the infernal columns during the Wars of the Vendée.The mortuary plates of the chapel of Petit Luc bear the names of 564 people massacred on this occasion.On the occasion of his inauguration, Alexander Solzhenitsyn made a speech in which he drew a parallel between the spirit that animated the politicians applying the Terror and Soviet totalitarianism.