Nantes is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
Lorient is a town (commune) and seaport in the Morbihan department of Brittany in western France.
Nicolas Savinaud is a French former professional footballer who spent most of his career at FC Nantes. Mostly deployed as a defender, he also played in other positions.
In many countries the term local derby, or simply just derby means a sporting fixture between two rivals, particularly in Association Football. In North America, crosstown rivalry is a more common term.
Paul Frankeur was a French actor who had a successful Hollywood career and appeared in films by Jacques Tati, such as Jour de fête and Luis Buñuel, including The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
C'était ici is the second live album of French Avant-Garde musician and composer Yann Tiersen. It was recorded during three concerts performed on 15, 16, and 17 February 2002, at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, France. The album is noteworthy because of the many collaborators appearing in the performances such as the 35-member orchestral group Synaxis, conducted by Guillaume Bourgogne, Claire Pichet, Christine Ott, Christian Quermalet, Marc Sens, Nicolas Stevens, Jean-François Assy, Renaud Lhoest, Olivier Tilkin, Ronan le bars, Les Têtes Raides, Dominique A and Lisa Germano.
40 chansons d'or is a double-CD by Charles Aznavour, released in 1994 on EMI Records. It was reissued in 1996 with a different track listing.
Le Jour où Beaumont fit connaissance avec sa douleur is a novella written in French by French Nobel laureate writer J. M. G. Le Clézio. It is one of the first published texts he wrote. This novella was published in book form after the famous Le Procès-Verbal, his first novel which won the Renaudot Prize in 1963. This novella was also included in a collection of short stories entitled La fièvre, .
The Derby de la Bretagne, also known as the Derby Breton, is a football match in France. The match can potentially designate any match two clubs based in the historic province of Brittany; however, most of the time, it is employed by each club's supporters to mention the rivalry between major clubs Stade Rennais and FC Nantes, even if this particular fixture is often referred to as the West Derby.
Naïve Records is a French independent record label based in Paris, specializing in electronic music, pop music, jazz and classical music.
Five Day Lover is a 1961 French sex comedy film directed and co-written by Philippe de Broca, starring Jean Seberg and Micheline Presle. It is based on the 1959 novel L'amant de cinq jours by Françoise Parturier. The film was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival and nominated for the Golden Bear.
The 2011–12 Ligue 2 season was the 73rd since its establishment. The previous season's champions was Evian. The league schedule was announced on 31 March 2011 and the fixtures were determined on 10 June. The season began on 29 July and ended on 18 May 2012. The winter break was in effect from 21 December to 14 January.
The 2011–12 Coupe de la Ligue was the 18th edition of the French league cup competition. The defending champions were Marseille, who defeated Montpellier 1–0 in the 2010–11 edition of the final. The competition was organized by the Ligue de Football Professionnel and open to the 42 professional clubs in France that are managed by the organization. The final was contested on 14 April 2012 at the Stade de France. The winner of the competition will qualify for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League and be inserted into the third qualifying round.
Ludovic Régis Arsène Blas is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Ligue 1 club Rennes.
The 2017–18 Ligue 1 season, also known as Ligue 1 Conforama for sponsorship reasons, was the 80th season since its establishment. The season started on 4 August 2017 and ended on 19 May 2018. Monaco were the defending champions.
The Challenge Emiliano Sala is an annual friendly football competition played in honour of Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala, who died on 21 January 2019 in a plane crash. The participating clubs in the first edition in 2021 were Girondins de Bordeaux, Stade Malherbe Caen, FC Nantes, and Chamois Niortais, all former clubs of Sala. It took place at the Stade de la Source in Orléans, which is the home stadium of US Orléans, another club for which Sala played.
Football Club de Nantes, commonly referred to as FC Nantes or simply Nantes, is a women's football club based in Nantes, France. It has been the women's section of FC Nantes since 2012. Coached by Nicolas Chabot, the club competes in the Première Ligue.
Mohamed Achi is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Championnat National club Paris 13 Atletico on loan from the Ligue 1 club Nantes.
Nathan Zézé is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Nantes.
Mathieu Acapandié is a French professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Championnat National 3 side Nantes B.
