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25 unusual facts about Nantes


Alan McInally

After the end of the season, despite the efforts of new manager Billy McNeil to persuade the club's main strikers to stay, all three left Celtic – Mo Johnston to Nantes in France, Brian McClair to Manchester United and McInally joined Aston Villa in the Second Division.

Albret

Alain the Great, lord of Albret (d. 1522), wished to marry Anne of Brittany, and to that end fought against Charles VIII; but his hopes being defeated by the betrothal of Anne to Maximilian of Austria, he surrendered Nantes to the French in 1486.

Alexandre-Jacques Chantron

Alexandre Jacques Chantron (January 28, 1842 – 1918) was a French artist from the Western city of Nantes.

Bongshang

Bongshang toured frequently around this time regularly headlining concerts and festivals such as Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Nantes Celtica and Celtic Connections.

Chaitivel

In Nantes, Brittany, lives an exceedingly beautiful lady, who is loved by four knights.

Château de Clermont

The Château de Clermont, built between 1643 and 1649, is located in the commune of Le Cellier, 27 kilometres (17 mi) from Nantes in France.

Claude Le Péron

He moved to Nantes in 1969, where he played in local bands with musicians such as Jacky Mascarel, and Philippe Grandvoinet (New Direction).

Cornelius Ó Caoimh

He was listed as an Irish exile in Brittany in 1710, when he was nominated for the rectorship of St. Similien's parish, Nantes.

County of Nantes

1148– 1156 Hoel, Count of Nantes - disinherited from the Ducal Crown of Brittany in favor of his sister Bertha

Erec and Enide

The last quarter of the poem adds another episode, referred to as the "Joy of the Court," in which Erec and Enide set free prisoners and meet relations, before in time they are crowned King and Queen of Nantes in a lavishly-described ceremony.

État 40-001 to 40-143

The engines were assigned to the depots of Paris-Vaugirard, Montrouge, Batignoles, Sotteville (Rouen), Le Havre, Dieppe, Trappes, Chartres, Caen, Cherbourg, St-Brieuc, Brest, Nantes, Rennes and La Rochelle as well as industrial railways and harbours.

Fort-Liberté

Pilferage has seen the loss of the cannons and the cannonballs, apart from removal of stones imported from Nantes, France for pecuniary benefits without realising the gravity of the vandalism act.

Guy of Thouars

Guy of Thouars died in 1213 in Chemillé in the county of Maine, and was buried with Constance at Villeneuve Abbey in Les Sorinières outside of Nantes.

HD 40307 d

The discovery of HD 40307 d and the former two was announced at the astrophysics conference that took place on June 16–18, 2008 in Nantes, France.

Heuliez Bus

It also made the GX 44, for the public transport authority of Nantes, which is based on an O305; and the GX 113, specifically for the city of Marseille.

Jean-Louis Le Loutre

On a trip to Poitou to show Acadians the land, Le Loutre died at Nantes on September 30, 1772.

Karl Hotz

Karl Hotz (29 April 1877 - 20 October 1941) was a German engineer and soldier, Feldkommandant of the Feldgericht of Nantes.

Marguerite Carré

She made her stage debut in Nantes in 1899 as Mimì in La bohème, the same role in which she made her debut at the Opéra-Comique.

Monkton Combe School

There are also annual (optional) visits overseas, such as an adventure course picked each year for the 3rd Form, Skiing in Austria and a Rowing training camp in Nantes-France, as well as academic trips such as foreign language exchange trips.

Naïve New Beaters

On 24 and 25 June 2013, the band were the support-act for The Smashing Pumpkins in Paris and Nantes.

Nantes Derby Girls

The Nantes Derby Girls are a women's flat track roller derby league based in Nantes in France.

Paixhans gun

In 1827 the French navy ordered fifty large guns on the Paixhans model from the arsenals at Ruelle and at Indret near Nantes.

Roquebert's expedition to the Caribbean

In the months since Troude's failure, the French had only sent small supply ships to Guadeloupe, while carefully preparing a major expedition at Nantes.

Veuze

The veuze is a Breton bagpipe found traditionally in southeastern Brittany and in the northern part of the Vendée, particularly around Nantes, the Guérande peninsula, and Basse-Vilaine.

William de Mowbray

The ‘Progenies Moubraiorum’ makes Nigel predecease his father, and Nicolas and Courthope accept this date; but Dugdale adduces documentary evidence showing that he had livery of his lands in 1223, and did not die (at Nantes) until 1228.


Agathon Léonard

His bas-relief of St. Cecilia is to be found in the Abbeville Museum and the Nantes Museum houses a bust titled The Plunderer of Shipwrecks.

Aqualys

The Aqualys therefore shares this line with the TER Centre trains Tours-Orléans and Orléans-Étampes-Paris, freight trains, the trains Paris-Royan, Paris-Madrid (the Talgo), Orléans-Nantes (the Interloire) and some rare Paris - Bordeaux using the classic line that can be found during the holidays.

Arthur Giardelli

Giardelli’s work is held in many collections including the Tate, the National Museum of Wales, the National Library of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Arts Council of Wales, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Brecknock Museum, Tenby Museum and Art Gallery together with museums and galleries in New York, Dublin, Nantes, Bratislava and Prague.

Battle of Cholet

Kléber offered to divide the army in three columns and to march to Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Gesté and Beaupréau in order to surround the Vendéen army and cut it from the Loire and the road to Nantes.

EPSI

Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

Freda Betti

She participated in several opera festivals including Aix-en-Provence, Avignon, Bayreuth, Nantes, Nice, Nîmes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

Gabriel Thubières de Levy de Queylus

Within a few year, De Queylus has established seminaries in his native region of Rodez (1647), as well as in Nantes (1649) and Viviers (1650).

Interloire

The Interloire is a French train service run by TER Centre and TER Pays de la Loire linking Orléans to Le Croisic via Blois, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Saumur, Angers and Nantes.

Jean-Baptiste Carrier

In the following year he took part in establishing the Revolutionary Tribunal in Nantes.

Jean-François Chevrier

Exhibitions and catalogues he has curated and co-edited include Matter of Facts (Nantes et al., 1988), Une autre objectivité / Another Objectivity (London, 1988), Photo Kunst (Stuttgart, 1989), Craigie Horsfield (London, 1989), Lieux communs, figures singulières (Paris, 1991), Walker Evans and Dan Graham (Rotterdam, 1992) and Craigie Horsfield. La ciutat de la gent (Barcelona, 1996).

John Casken

The recording has now been re-released on the NMC label, and there have been six further productions of Golem since 1989: Opera Omaha, 1990; Northern Stage (UK Arts Council/Contemporary Music Network Tour), 1991; Theater Dortmund, 1994; Aspen Festival, 2000; Neue Operbühne Berlin 2001; Opéra de Rennes and Angers Nantes Opéra, 2006.

Jules-Élie Delaunay

After his return from Rome he was entrusted with many important commissions for decorative paintings, such as the frescoes in the church of St Nicholas at Nantes; the three panels of Apollo, Orpheus and Amphion at the Paris Opera house; and twelve paintings for the great hall of the council of state in the Palais Royal.

La Chapelle-Launay

The Second Breton War of Succession pitted the supporters of two different claimants against one another: those of the half-brother of the deceased John III, Duke of Brittany, Jean de Montfort, who relied on the Estates of Brittany who gathered in Nantes, and those of Charles I, Duke of Brittany, who was supported by King Philippe VI of France and was recognized as Duke of Brittany by the peers of the kingdom.

Les Spectacles de Paris

From 1792, the almanack also kept an important slot for provincial theatres (e.g. in Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Rouen, Toulouse and Lille) and the make-up of their troupes.

Machines of the Isle of Nantes

In the warehouses of the former shipyards in Nantes, the Machines of the Isle is created by two artists, François Delarozière (La Machine) and Pierre Orefice (Manaus association), visualising a travel-through-time world at the crossroads of the "imaginary worlds" of Jules Verne and the mechanical universe of Leonardo da Vinci.

Magellan Navigation

Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with European sales and engineering centers in Nantes, France and Moscow, Russia, Magellan also produces aftermarket automotive GPS units, including the Hertz Neverlost system found in Hertz rental cars.

Marc Elder

Marc Elder (Marcel Tendron) 31 October 1884 Nantes - 16 August 1933 Saint-Fiacre-sur-Maine) was a French writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt for The People of the Sea.

Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully

In 1599, he was appointed grand commissioner of highways and public works, superintendent of fortifications and grand master of artillery; in 1602 governor of Nantes and of Jargeau, captain-general of the Queen's gens d'armes and governor of the Bastille; in 1604 he was governor of Poitou; and in 1606 made first duke of Sully and a pair de France, ranking next to princes of the blood.

Mix-Cité

Created in 1997 in Paris, the Mix-Cité movement is currently active in Paris and in many other cities such as Toulouse, Orléans, Rennes and Nantes.

Panhard 178

At first the main supplying company was Batignolles-Châtillon at Nantes, that could supply a maximum of about twenty per month; in 1940 the forge at Firminy became dominant.

Paul Deltombe

Paul Edmond Joseph Deltombe (born 6 April 1881 in Catillon-sur-Sambre, died 8 August 1971 in Nantes), was a French painter and illustrator .

Saint-Herblain

The Gare de Basse-Indre-Saint-Herblain railway station is served by regional trains between Nantes and Saint-Nazaire.

SNCF Class X 72500

They operate longer distance TER services, particularly in the areas south and west of Paris, the Paris to Laon line, around Tours, Nantes, Toulouse, Lyon, Dijon, Nevers, Grenoble, Bordeaux and the South Coast of France.

Softeam

Branches of the corporation are located in cities around the country, including Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes, and Sophia-Antipolis.

Sport in Chad

According to one source, "Nambatingue Tokomon, known as "Toko," played for renowned French soccer clubs, including Paris St. Germain, in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdoulay Karateka also played for Paris St. Germain. Ndoram Japhet played for Nantes and Monaco in the 1990s."

Susana Seivane

In France she has performed in concert in Paris, Nantes, Lyons, Les Irlandays, Juvisy sur Orge, the Festival du Bout du Monde and the Festival de Saint-Loup in Guingamp.

The 4th Dimension

Official Selection: Utopiales-Nantes International Science Fiction Festival – France

Utopiales

Founded by Bruno della Chiesa, and run by science fiction museum director Patrick Gyger from 2001 to 2005, it is put on by the "Association du Festival International de Science-Fiction de Nantes".

Venice for Lovers

Several European cities have been compared to Venice: The Breton city Nantes has been called The Venice of the West, while the nickname The Venice of the North has been variously applied to Amsterdam, Birmingham, Bornholm, Bruges, Haapsalu, Maryhill, Saint Petersburg and Stockholm.

Victorin de Joncières

He composed some incidental music for Hamlet (performed both in Paris and Nantes) but found little success with two operas produced at the Théâtre Lyrique: Sardanapale (based on Byron, with Christine Nilsson, 1867) and Les derniers jours de Pompéi (from a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1869).