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Although its stock exchange was merged with that of Paris in 1990, [169] Nantes is the third-largest financial centre in France after Paris and Lyon. [170] The Euronantes business district. The city has one of the best-performing economies in France, producing €55 billion annually; €29 billion returns to the local economy. [171]
Nantes et les Nantais sous le Second Empire [Nantes and its people under the Second Empire] (in French). Nantes: Ouest éditions et Université inter-âges de Nantes. ISBN 2-908261-92-8. Lelièvre, Pierre (1988). Nantes au XVIIIe siècle : urbanisme et architecture [Nantes in the eighteenth century: urban planning and architecture ...
Nantes Cathedral, or the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul de Nantes), is a Roman Catholic Gothic cathedral located in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. Construction began in 1434, on the site of a Romanesque cathedral, and took 457 years to finish in 1891.
The Voyage à Nantes is a tourist organisation which promotes the culture of Nantes in Pays de la Loire, France. It was created in 2011 as a société publique locale (local public company). The name also refers to a number of permanent public artworks in the area, as well as a yearly summer festival.
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Pays de la Loire (French pronunciation: [pe.i d(ə) la lwaʁ]; lit. ' Lands of the Loire ') is one of the eighteen regions of France, located on the country's Atlantic coast. It was created in the 1950s to serve as a zone of influence for its capital and most populated city, Nantes, one of a handful of French "balancing metropolises" (métropoles d'équilibre).
After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, several Huguenots including Edmund Bohun of Suffolk, England, Pierre Bacot of Touraine France, Jean Postell of Dieppe France, Alexander Pepin, Antoine Poitevin of Orsement France, and Jacques de Bordeaux of Grenoble, immigrated to the Charleston Orange district. They were very successful at ...
Founded under the Consulate by Napoléon Bonaparte, the Fine Arts Museum of Nantes receives work purchased by state and the central museum deposits ().It takes from the 19th century, where it was an important place in the French public collections through the purchase by the city of Nantes in the collection of the brothers Pierre and François Cacault.