Saint-Nazaire progressively replaced upstream Nantes as the main haven on the Loire estuary. As a major submarine base for the Kriegsmarine, Saint-Nazaire...
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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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Copenhagen Port of Pärnu Port of Sillamäe Port of Helsinki Brest Caen Bordeaux Cherbourg Dieppe La Rochelle Lorient Lyon Nantes Saint-Nazaire Paris Rouen...
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La Baule-Escoublac (redirect from Musée aéronautique de la Côte d'Amour)
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...
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Saintes (French: [sɛ̃t] ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Sénte) is a commune and historic town in western France, in the Charente-Maritime department of which...
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La Rochelle (redirect from La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime)
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...
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[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...
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University Hospital, Inserm, ensa Nantes, Nantes Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts and IRT Jules Verne. Centrale Nantes is consistently mentioned among...
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Operation Aerial (section St Nazaire and Nantes)
Czech troops, civilians and equipment from Atlantic ports, particularly from St Nazaire and Nantes. On 17 June, the Luftwaffe evaded RAF fighter patrols...
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Mécaniques de Normandie (CMN) (1945-) Dunkirk: Ateliers et Chantiers de France (ACF) (1898-1987) Grand-Quevilly: Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët...
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which the Nantes-Saint-Nazaire railroad line passes through the Chantenay tunnel; from downstream to upstream: The Roche-Maurice port, at Cheviré bridge...
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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)...
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territories the legal populations sources are: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon: 2019 census Saint-Barthélemy: 2019 census Saint-Martin: 2019 census French Polynesia:...
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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...
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Tourism in Brittany (section Maritime tourism)
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...
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Antoine Walsh (section Château de Serrant)
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...
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Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon...
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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...
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SS France (1960) (category Maritime boiler explosions)
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...
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List of museums in France (section 76 - Seine-Maritime)
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...
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Nice Côte d'Azur Airport (redirect from Aéroport de Nice)
airport to the Port of Nice (Lympia Port) via the Grand Arénas interchange (where additionally the relocated regional train station Nice-Saint-Augustin is...
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Bordeaux (redirect from Lycée Sainte-Marie Grand Lebrun)
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...
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Brest, France (category Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast)
accessed from the Americas. Shipping is big business, although Nantes and Saint-Nazaire offer much larger docks and attract more of the larger vessels...
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List of boats in The Adventures of Tintin (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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...
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libération de Nantes sans un seul coup de feu !". nantes.maville.com (in French). Jean-Pierre Imbert, ’’Histoire de Privas et de sa région’’ (History of Privas...
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Rochefort martyrs (category Rochefort, Charente-Maritime)
the events remain common knowledge. In 1863, the new parish priest of Saint-Nazaire-sur-Charente near Rochefort, Isidore Manseau, learned of the events...
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Aigues-Mortes (section Saint-Louis Square)
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...
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Royan (category Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast)
of France, in the department of Charente-Maritime in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. Capital of the Côte de Beauté, Royan is one of the main French Atlantic...
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Brioude, Auvergne Saint-Remi, Reims, Champagne Notre-Dame, Gray, Franche-Comté Saint Nazaire, Carcassonne, Languedoc-Roussillon Saint Sernin, Toulouse...
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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...
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