Saint-Nazaire progressively replaced upstream Nantes as the main haven on the Loire estuary. As a major submarine base for the Kriegsmarine, Saint-Nazaire...

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...

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of Bôle, a term indicating an easily flooded maritime meadow. It was only in 1879, when the Saint-Nazaire-Croisic railroad was conceived by Parisian industrialist...

University Hospital, Inserm, ensa Nantes, Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts and IRT Jules Verne. Centrale Nantes is consistently mentioned among...

Saintes (French: [sɛ̃t] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Sénte) is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which...

[ʁɔʃfɔʁ syʁ mɛʁ]; Occitan: Ròchafòrt de Mar) for disambiguation, is a city and commune in Southwestern France, a port on the Charente estuary. It is a subprefecture...

Nearby Île de Ré is a short drive to the North. The countryside of the surrounding Charente-Maritime is very rural and full of history (Saintes). To the...

Czech troops, civilians and equipment from Atlantic ports, particularly from St Nazaire and Nantes. On 17 June, the Luftwaffe evaded RAF fighter patrols...

which the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire railroad line passes through the Chantenay tunnel; from downstream to upstream: The Roche-Maurice port, at Cheviré bridge...

Tremblade (French pronunciation: [la tʁɑ̃blad]) is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department and Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France. The name...

the Academic Society of Nantes and of the Loire-Inférieure department] (in French). p. 75. Ports maritimes de la France [Sea ports of France] (in French)...

with over 10,000 soldiers wounded or killed. The cities of Lorient and Saint-Nazaire no longer had the same strategic priority, and the US Army counted only...

collectivities the legal populations sources are: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 2019 census Saint-Barthélemy: 2019 census Saint-Martin: 2019 census French Polynesia:...

Mont-Saint-Michel to Saint-Nazaire. Visited by 9 million people every year, it generates some 202 million euros in annual spin-offs. La pointe de Saint-Hernot...

Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon...

1703, in Saint Malo, Brittany, France. After serving in the French Navy, he settled in Nantes, which had emerged as the France's chief slaving port; where...

agglomeration of Nantes, therefore it is part of the Nantes Métropole (8th most populous across France) and the "espace urbain" of Nantes-Saint-Nazaire. For many...

French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962. At the...

de l'imprimerie Jules Verne Museum Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nantes Le Pallet Musée du vignoble Nantais Saint-Nazaire Écomusée de Saint-Nazaire Angers...

airport to the Port of Nice (Lympia Port) via the Grand Arénas interchange (where additionally the relocated regional train station Nice-Saint-Augustin is...

Villaverde, the Ville de Lyon, the Ville de Nantes, the Ville de Rouen, the Ville de St-Nazaire, and the Ville de Toulon. The Ville de Rouen is also mentioned...

from Bordeaux. A regular train service is provided to Nantes, Nice, Marseille and Lyon. The Gare Saint-Jean is the major hub for regional trains (TER) operated...

accessed from the Americas. Shipping is big business, although Nantes and Saint-Nazaire offer much larger docks and attract more of the larger vessels...

Navy and the French Navy in Quiberon Bay, off the coast of France near Saint-Nazaire. The battle was the culmination of British efforts to eliminate French...

commonly referred to as Aulnay-de-Saintonge (French pronunciation: [onɛ də sɛ̃tɔ̃ʒ]), is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine...

Situated on the junction of the Canal du Rhône à Sète and the Chenal Maritime to Le Grau-du-Roi, the town is a transit center for canal craft and Dutch...

the events remain common knowledge. In 1863, the new parish priest of Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente near Rochefort, Isidore Manseau, learned of the events...

Brioude, Auvergne Saint-Remi, Reims, Champagne Notre-Dame, Gray, Franche-Comté Saint Nazaire, Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon Saint Sernin, Toulouse...

the most important of the 66 villes de sûreté ('cities of protection' or 'protected cities') that the Edict of Nantes granted to the Huguenots. The city's...