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Nantes and it's history... |
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Nantes and it's history... |
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Nantes
is the biggest city of Brittany, installed to the
confluence of the Sèvre and the Erdre, where fluvial the
Loire becomes maritime, breach by the high tide flow.
From time, islands, populated since 17th century, have
facilitated there the creation of bridges channeling the
trade between the basse - bretagne and the poitou and the
emergence of a big city. The history of Nantes * The great men born in Nantes * Nantes: currencies and badges Here is therefore some spot the history of
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The histoiry of Nantes |
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NANTES, primitive city of
Namnètes on the 1st of century, Gallic then roman, first
know for bloody struggles between Norman invaders and
peoples of Armorique. In 843, Normans disembarking by surpriseded making irruption in the Cathedral and pass to the thread of the sword, the bishop that, the clergy and its assistants. Masters of Nantes, they bankrupted Brittany during a century. In 937, the young Breton chief, Alain Barbe Torte, returned from England where it had fled, massacred pirates and hunted them of Brittany. Become first Duke of Brittany, it was protective and renovative Nantes that it chooses as capital. XI and XII centuries are marked by rivalries between counties of Rennes and Nantes. The city knew an era of prosperity under the reign of Jean V that, in 1434, posed the first stone of the current Cathedral. It is the period of the famous trial of Gilles de Rais, transformed by the legend in Blue Beard, and burnt to Nantes in 1440, after having been hung. After Jean V, the duke François II encouraged the trade, based the university and schools and created the new ducal castle in 1466 where its daughter Anne de Bretagne was born. The former married, a first time by proxy to MAXIMILIEN Of AUSTRIA, then a time second, in 1491, to CHARLES VIII. Become widow, Anne married then in the Castle of Nantes the king LOUIS XII. They had two girls, Claude and Renée, it is by marrying with Claude that François 1st preserved the power of Brittany. The Edict that it signed in 1532 devoted the union of Brittany to France. During wars of religion, the Duke of Mercoeur, governor of Nantes, fought Henri IV that could enter only in 1598 in the city where it signed the famous Edict of Nantes that granted to Protestants the liberty of cult. In the beginning of the XVIII century, the boom of the port, then the first of France, insured in Nantes, counter of the Company of India, an extraordinary prosperity. It is the period of slave traders, it is also the period illustrated by the bold corsairs Nantes whose most famous was Jacques CASSARD. 1789, during the revolution, Nantes resisted with energy to attack of the natives of the Vendée. In 1793, it was one of the City that most suffers the of the terror. CARRIER came to make there reign the guillotine and to organize the horrible drowings. In 1793, the natives of Vendée having wanted to seize Nantes, were victoriously repelled by CANCLAUX, CATHELINEAU was killed during this attack. CHARRETTE was executed in Nantes in 1796. During the war of 1914-1918, Nantes was an important supply center for the English army first, then for the American army. 1940-1944, during the occupation, Nantes had to suffer bombings whose most severe were these of 16 and 23 September 1943. The City of Nantes was the first of France to receive the Cross of the Liberation. 22 October 1941, 48 innocents were executed, as hostages, in reprisals of the attack that had cost the life to the German lieutenant colonel HOLTZ. |
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The great men born in Nantes |
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In
Nantes and in the region were born:
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Nantes: currencies and badges |
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