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Brittany is a cultural region in the west of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown.
Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 309,346 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 973,000 inhabitants (2017). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
Gare Montparnasse, officially Paris-Montparnasse, is one of the six large Paris railway termini, and is located in the 14th and 15th arrondissements of Paris.
The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France.
Pays de la Loire are one of the 18 regions of France, in the west of the mainland. It is one of the regions created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful of "balancing metropolises" ¹.
Saint-Nazaire is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France, in traditional Brittany.
The University of Nantes is a French university, located in the city of Nantes. In addition to the several campuses scattered in the city of Nantes, there are two satellite campuses located respectively in Saint-Nazaire and La Roche-sur-Yon. Currently, the university is attended by approximately 34,500 students. More than 10% of them are international students coming from 110 countries.
Fabrice Hybert, also known by the pseudonym Fabrice Hyber, is a plastician French born on 12 July 1961 in Luçon (Vendée). At 56, he was elected to the Academy of Fine Arts on April 25, 2018.
The 3 arrondissements of the Loire-Atlantique department are:
- Arrondissement of Châteaubriant-Ancenis, with 76 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 222,436 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Nantes, with 76 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 830,509 in 2016.
- Arrondissement of Saint-Nazaire, with 55 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 327,907 in 2016.
The following is a list of the 31 cantons of the Loire-Atlantique department, in France, following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:
Couëron is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is part of the historic French Brittany.
Paul Morrison is a British artist. He was born in Liverpool and received a BA in fine art from Sheffield City Polytechnic. He continued his studies at Goldsmiths College of Art in London, where he received his MA. His first one-person show was in London in 1996 and since then he has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries Worldwide. Morrison lives and works in Yorkshire.
La Chapelle-Launay is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in Brittany, western France.
René-Yves Creston, born René Pierre Joseph Creston, was a Breton artist, designer and ethnographer who founded the Breton nationalist art movement Seiz Breur. During World War II he was active in the French Resistance.
The Gare de Nantes is the principal passenger railway station serving the French city of Nantes. It is a through station aligned east-west, with entrances and station facilities on both north and south sides. The two entrances are often described as Gare Nord and Gare Sud, as if they were separate stations, but they are in fact linked to each other and to all the platforms by a pedestrian subway.
Angers-Saint-Laud is a railway station located in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, western France. The station was opened in 1849 and is located on the Le Mans–Angers railway and the Tours–Saint-Nazaire railway. The train services are operated by SNCF.
The railway from Tours to Saint-Nazaire is an important French 282-kilometre long railway line. It is used for passenger and freight traffic. The railway was opened in several stages between 1848 and 1857.
Jean Blaise is a French artistic director for special events.
Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire (ACL) was a French shipbuilding company of the late 19th and early 20th century. The name translates roughly to English as "Workshops and Shipyard of the Loire".
The Jules Verne was an express train that linked Paris and Nantes in France. Operated by the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer français (SNCF), it was the last new Trans Europ Express (TEE) to be introduced, in 1980.
