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unusual facts about Chantiers de l'Atlantique


MV Bretagne

She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France and has been sailing for Brittany Ferries since 1989.


Alfred Huet du Pavillon

Alfred Huet du Pavillon (January 1829, Blain, Loire-Atlantique – 1907, Frohsdorf) was a French botanist.

Bouvron, Loire-Atlantique

In 1640, Nicolas Fouquet, finance's minister of Louis XIV married in his first wedding Louise Fourché de Quéhillac, who adduces him 160.000 livres as her dowry.

Brains

Brains, Loire-Atlantique, commune of the Loire-Atlantique département, in France

Château de la Motte-Glain

Le château de la Motte-Glain is a castle built in the commune of La Chapelle-Glain, Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Claude Évin

Since being replaced as MP for Loire-Atlantique by Marie-Odile Bouillé, he has moved to chairing the French Hospital Federation (FHF).

Clémentine Autain

Her paternal uncle, François Autain, is a French Senator and member of Parti de gauche (Left Party) for Loire-Atlantique, as well as former Deputy Mayor of Bougue and former Secretary of State for Immigration, then for the Ministry of Defense during the presidency of François Mitterrand.

Cordemais Power Station

The power station is located in the western part of France at Cordemais in the department of Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire.

Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War

One of the casements of the Todt Battery can be visited at the Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique, the Atlantic Wall Museum, at Audinghen.

François-Frédéric Lemot

With the considerable fortune he had earned, Lemot bought the Château de Clisson in western France, in the département of Loire-Atlantique (Pays de la Loire), and the town, which had been destroyed during the Revolt in the Vendée, was rebuilt according to his plans.

Guy Môquet

On 20 October 1941, the commanding officer of the German occupation forces in Loire-Atlantique, Karl Hotz, was assassinated by three communist resisters.

Jane Delano

Jane Arminda Delano, born March 13, 1862 in Montour Falls, New York, United States – died April 15, 1919 in Savenay, Loire-Atlantique, France, was a nurse and founder of the American Red Cross Nursing Service.

La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur

La Chapelle-Saint-Sauveur, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the French region of Pays-de-la-Loire

Leipzig–Altenburg Airport

Two aircraft are currently on display there, an ex-Soviet Air Force MiG-21, and an ex-Luftwaffe Breguet 'Atlantique' maritime patrol aircraft.

Louis Joubert Lock

Owned by the Port authority of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire and not the ship building company Chantiers de l'Atlantique, its strategic importance as a major naval construction and maintenance asset since its completion in 1934, resulted in it becoming the main target of the British Army Commando raid of 1942, the St. Nazaire Raid, to stop German battleships such as Tirpitz from accessing maintenance facilities in the Atlantic Ocean.

Marie Julie Jahenny

Julie Marie Jahenny (born 12 February 1850 in Coyault, near Blain, died 4 March 1941) - French mystic and stigmatist.

Melleray Abbey

It was situated in Brittany, Diocese of Nantes, in La Meilleraye-de-Bretagne in the vicinity of Châteaubriant (in present Loire-Atlantique).

Opiyo Okach

With the support of leading dancers like Régine Chopinot and Mathilde Monnier, more performances in France followed, for instance at the Ballet Atlantique.

OTAN

French, Spanish, and Portuguese name for NATO (Organisation du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord)

Pont-Saint-Martin

Pont-Saint-Martin, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, France

Presses Universitaires de Rennes

It belongs to this university but also publishes for other universities gathered in the Réseau des Université de l'Ouest Atlantique (University of Western Brittany, University of Southern Brittany, University of Rennes 1, University of Nantes, University of Angers, University of Maine (France), the University of La Rochelle and the François Rabelais University in Tours).

Quilly

Quilly, Loire-Atlantique, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, France

Ray DiPalma

:*also of note: Le Tombeau de Reverdy (translated to French by Emmanuel Hocquard & Juliette Valéry) was published in Marseille by cip/M & Un bureau sur l'Atlantique.

Stéphane Sessègnon

Sessègnon began his career with Benin Premier League side Requins de l'Atlantique, which means the Sharks of the Atlantic, in Cotonou, the largest city in Benin.

USSA Vertou

They play at the Stade Vincent et Robert Girard in Vertou, Loire-Atlantique and they currently compete in the Championnat de France amateur 2 Group H.

Yannick Vaugrenard

Yannick Vaugrenard (born 25 June 1950 in Trignac, Loire-Atlantique) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the west of France.


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