Silverman grew up in Hastings on Hudson in New York during the school year, and spent his summers in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île.
Finally, Palluau and Noirmoutier followed suit in 2011 as the communautés de communes that subsidize Nov Fm.
The Passage du Gois, a natural, periodically flooded passage leading to the island of Noirmoutier in France.
Philibert died and was buried at Heriou, but in 836 the monks of Noirmoutier abandoned their home in the face of the Viking attacks to seek refuge on the mainland, in 875 finally settling with the relics of Philibert in the abbey at Tournus named in his honour, where the great church of St Philibert at Tournus still stands.