International audienceThis paper points out the way the motion of the shoreline occurs along the coast of the Pays de Monts (Vendée, W France). The coastalanalysis is based upon a method of detection of the shoreline carried out by in situ observations and beach/dune contact extractionfrom a set of aerial photographs registered between 1920 and 2010. Once the set of coastlines are digitized using specific software tools,we used the Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS) which made it possible to build up a set of 20m regularly spaced transects intersectingeach of the coastlines. This allows setting up both cartographic and statistic results taking into account various temporal scales. Thelong-term results indicate that the in-accretion co...