Embrasement Roman (French Edition)

However it isn't so familiar to me as the English, and it sounds more like a quote.

When in Rome do as the Romans do

There may be a better way of expressing this idea. A search on WR gave me Il faut hurler avec les loups , but it sounds a bit aggressive. Grop , Sep 25, RaLo18 , Sep 25, Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more. But more common Czech saying is: I missed an r at the end of the portugues sentence.

Juan Nadie , Sep 26, Outsider Senior Member Portuguese Portugal. Yes, that is correct, although curiously I'd never heard that saying. I'm more familiar with the other one you cited. I adore the Spanish saying: Adonde fueres, haz lo que vieres. Outsider , Sep 26, I, too, adore my spanish words, 'A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres'. Derby central England English - England. I've seen a more literal translation in Spanish Cuando a Roma fueres, haz lo que vieres.

Slawomir Member Brno Polish. Slawomir , Jun 18, AutumnOwl Senior Member - Swedish. Ta seden dit man kommer - to take the customs of the place where you come. AutumnOwl , Jun 18, You either bring this camel to the pasture, or you go away from these lands. It's VO VO construction. I don't recognize it in Dutch, certainly not in an expression referring to the Romeinen , i. This kind of adaption might be unwelcomed by us having been oppressed by so many in times gone by.

We do know howling with the wolves huilen met de wolven , or the herd mind kuddegeest , but there is nothing positive about this kind of way of behaving based on imititation of the majority ThomasK , Jun 23, The black and white crosses are historic symbols of Brittany and France, respectively.

The administrative region of Brittany did not exist during the 19th and early 20th centuries, although its cultural heritage remained.

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As a large port whose outskirts encompassed other provinces, Nantes has been Brittany's economic capital and a cultural crossroads. Breton culture in Nantes is not necessarily characteristic of Lower Brittany's, although the city experienced substantial Lower Breton immigration during the 19th century. It has often been said that the separation of Nantes from the rest of Brittany was decided by Vichy France during the Second World War. Debate continues about Nantes' place in Brittany, with polls indicating a large majority in Loire-Atlantique and throughout the historic province favouring Breton reunification.

Pays de la Loire officials favour a union of Brittany with the Pays de la Loire, but Breton politicians oppose the incorporation of their region into a Greater West region. Nantes has made nine international sister-city arrangements since Arrangements have been made with: The city has made agreements with other cities and regions, including Turin , Liverpool , Hamburg , Asturias and Quebec.

Nantes had , inhabitants in , the largest population in its history. Although it was the largest city in Brittany during the Middle Ages , it was smaller than three other north-western towns: Angers , Tours and Caen. In it annexed the neighbouring communes of Doulon and Chantenay, gaining almost 30, inhabitants. Population growth was slower during the 20th century, remaining under , from the s to the s primarily because urban growth spread to surrounding communes.

Since the population of Nantes began to rise due to redevelopment, [] and its urban area has continued to experience population growth. The Nantes metropolitan area had a population of , in , nearly doubling since the s. Its population is projected to reach one million by , based on the fertility rate. The population of Nantes is younger than the national average, with People over age 60 account for Single-person households are Students generally come from within the region, and working people are often from Paris.

Nantes has long had ethnic minorities. Spanish, Portuguese and Italian communities were mentioned during the 16th century, and an Irish Jacobite community appeared a century later. However, immigration has always been lower in Nantes than in other large French cities. The city's foreign population has been stable since , half the average for other French cities of similar size.

In this category had 24, people in Nantes, or 8. Their primary countries of origin were Algeria Other African countries accounted for Nantes is historically a Catholic city, with a cathedral , two minor basilicas , about 40 churches and around 20 chapels. Western France is traditionally religious, and the Catholic influence on Nantes was more persistent than in other large French cities.

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The main Protestant church belongs to the United Protestant Church of France , but the city also has a number of newer Evangelical and Baptist churches. The city has one synagogue , built in Nantes' first mosque was built in , with three more built in The local dialect in Nantes is Gallo , spoken by some in Upper Brittany. Nantes, as a large city, has been a stronghold of standard French. A local dialect parler nantais is sometimes mentioned by the press, but its existence is dubious and its vocabulary mainly the result of rural emigration.

Since then, the city has supported its six bilingual schools and introduced bilingual signage. For centuries, Nantes' economy was linked to the Loire and the Atlantic; the city had France's largest harbour in the 18th century. The Nantes region is France's largest food producer; the city has recently become a hub of innovation in food security, with laboratories and firms such as Eurofins Scientific.

Nantes experienced deindustrialisation after port activity in Saint-Nazaire largely ceased, culminating in the closure of the shipyards. At that time, the city attempted to attract service firms. Nantes capitalised on its culture and proximity to the sea to present itself as creative and modern. Capgemini management consulting , SNCF rail and Bouygues Telecom opened large offices in the city, followed by smaller companies. The metropolitan area has ten large shopping centres; the largest, Atlantis in Saint-Herblain , is a mall with shops and several superstores including IKEA.

With a business incubator , it has companies and 71 research and higher-education facilities and specialises in biopharmaceuticals , information technology , renewable energy , mechanics, food production and naval engineering. Nantes' cityscape is primarily recent, with more buildings built during the 20th century than in any other era.

Because of its sturdiness, granite was often used for foundations. Old buildings on the former Feydeau Island and the neighbouring embankments often lean because they were built on damp soil. Nantes has a few structures dating to antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Remnants of the third-century Roman city wall exist in the old town. Although many of the walls were destroyed in the 18th century, some segments such as Porte Saint-Pierre, built in survived.

Several 15th- and 16th-century half-timbered houses still stand in Le Bouffay, an ancient area corresponding to Nantes' medieval core [] which is bordered by Nantes Cathedral and the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany. The large, Gothic cathedral replaced an earlier Romanesque church. Its construction took years, from to Begun in , many of its current buildings date to the 15th century. Although the castle had a military role, it was also a residence for the ducal court.

Granite towers on the outside hide delicate tuffeau-stone ornaments on its inner facades, designed in Flamboyant style with Italianate influence. A municipal belfry clock originally on a tower of Bouffay Castle, a prison demolished after the French Revolution was added to the church in After the Renaissance , Nantes developed west of its medieval core along new embankments. Trade-derived wealth permitted the construction of many public monuments during the 18th century, most designed by the neoclassical architects Jean-Baptiste Ceineray and Mathurin Crucy. Place Royale was completed in , and the large fountain added in Its statues represent the city of Nantes, the Loire and its main tributaries.

This architecture has been called "Nantais baroque ". Most of Nantes' churches were rebuilt during the 19th century, a period of population growth and religious revival after the French Revolution. Most were rebuilt in Gothic Revival style , including the city's two basilicas: The first, built between and , was one of France's first Gothic Revival projects.

The latter was built between and , after the Franco-Prussian War which triggered another Catholic revival in France. Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Port, near the Loire, is an example of 19th-century neoclassicism. Built in , its iconic dome was inspired by that of Les Invalides in Paris.

Industrial architecture includes several factories converted into leisure and business space, primarily on the Isle of Nantes. Two cranes in the former harbour, dating to the s and s, have also become landmarks. Recent architecture is dominated by postwar concrete reconstructions, modernist buildings and examples of contemporary architecture such as the courts of justice, designed by Jean Nouvel in Nantes has several museums. The Fine Art Museum is the city's largest.

Opened in , it has an extensive collection ranging from Italian Renaissance paintings to contemporary sculpture. Items include paintings, sculptures, photographs, maps and furniture displayed to illustrate major points of Nantes history such as the Atlantic slave trade , industrialisation and the Second World War.

The building is a Romanesque Revival mansion facing a 15th-century manor. Collections include a golden reliquary made for Anne of Brittany 's heart, medieval statues and timber frames, coins, weapons, jewellery, manuscripts and archaeological finds. It has more than 1. With , visitors in , the Machines were the most-visited non-free site in Loire-Atlantique. Owned by the city council, it is used for contemporary-art exhibitions.

The former LU biscuit factory, facing the castle, has been converted into Le Lieu unique. It includes a Turkish bath , restaurant and bookshop and hosts art exhibits, drama, music and dance performances. La Fabrique, a cultural entity managed by the city, has three sites which include music studios and concert venues. The largest is Stereolux, specialising in rock concerts, experimental happenings and other contemporary performances. The seat Pannonica specialises in jazz , and the nearby seat Salle Paul-Fort is dedicated to contemporary French singers. The Royal de Luxe street theatre company moved to Nantes in , and has produced a number of shows in the city.

The company is noted for its large marionettes including a giraffe, the Little Giant and the Sultan's Elephant , and has also performed in Lisbon , Berlin , London and Santiago.

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The Machines sponsor theatre, dance, concerts, ice-sculpting shows and performances for children in the spring and fall and at Christmastime. Estuaire contemporary-art exhibitions were held along the Loire estuary in , and A route a green line painted on the pavement helps visitors make the voyage between the exhibitions and the city's major landmarks. Some works of art are permanent, and others are used for a summer. The original one-day festival now lasts for five days.

The concept has been exported to Bilbao , Tokyo and Warsaw , and the festival sold a record , tickets in Annual attendance is about , The Scopitone festival is dedicated to digital art , and Utopiales is an international science fiction festival. A path along the Loire river banks, between the Anne-de-Bretagne Bridge and the Victor-Schoelcher footbridge begins the Nantes slavery memorial. The path is covered in 2, spaced glass inserts, with 1, of them commemorating the names of slave ships and their port dates in Nantes.

The other inserts name ports in Africa , the Americas , and the area around the Indian Ocean. The path and surrounding 1. Other etchings of quotes by figures like Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These quotes come from across the globe, from all four continents affected by the slave trade, and span over five centuries, from the 17th to the 21st. At the end of the hall, toward the exit, is a room with the timeline of slavery as it became abolished in various countries around the world. Two of Demy's films were set and shot in Nantes: Lola and A Room in Town Nantes appears in a number of songs, the best-known to non-French audiences being 's "Nantes" by the American band Beirut.

The city is mentioned in about 50 folk songs, making it the most-sung-about city in France after Paris. Turner visited Nantes in as part of a journey in the Loire Valley, and later painted a watercolour view of Nantes from Feydeau Island. The painting was bought by the city in , and is on exhibit at the Historical Museum in the castle.

During the 19th century Nantes-born gastronome Charles Monselet praised the "special character" of the local "plebeian" cuisine, which included buckwheat crepes, caillebotte fermented milk and fouace brioche. It is the largest producer of dry white wines in France, chiefly Muscadet and Gros Plant usually served with fish, langoustines and oysters. Local fishing ports such as La Turballe and Le Croisic mainly offer shrimp and sardines , and eels , lampreys , zander and northern pike are caught in the Loire. Although local restaurants tend to serve simple dishes made with fresh local products, exotic trends have influenced many chefs in recent years.

Beurre blanc is Nantes' most-famous local specialty. Made with Muscadet, it was invented around in Saint-Julien-de-Concelles on the south bank of the Loire and has become a popular accompaniment for fish. It disappeared in with the abolition of French universities. During the 19th century, when many of the former universities reopened, Nantes was neglected and local students had to go to Rennes and Angers. In the university was finally recreated, but Nantes has not established itself as a large university city.

This was lower than in nearby Rennes 64, , and Nantes is the ninth-largest commune in France in its percentage of students. In addition to the university, Nantes has a number of colleges and other institutes of higher education. Audencia , a private management school, is ranked as one of the world's best by the Financial Times and The Economist. Other institutes of higher education include a national merchant navy school, a fine-arts school, a national architectural school and Epitech and Supinfo computing. Nantes has several large sports facilities.

The 10,seat stadium was selected as a venue for the World Men's Handball Championship. Smaller facilities include the 4,seat indoor Palais des Sports, a venue for EuroBasket The nearby Mangin Beaulieu sports complex has 2, seats and Pierre Quinon Stadium, an athletics stadium within the University of Nantes, has seats. Six teams in Nantes play at a high national or international level.

Best known is FC Nantes , member of Ligue 1 for the —17 season. Since its formation in , the club has won eight Championnat titles and three Coupes de France. FC Nantes has several French professional football records, including the most consecutive seasons in the elite division 44 , most wins in a season 26 , consecutive wins 32 and consecutive home wins 92 games, nearly five years.

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In handball , volleyball and basketball , Nantes' men's and women's clubs play in the French first division: Nantes is on the Way of the Estuaries, a network of motorways connecting northern France and the Spanish border in the south-west while bypassing Paris. South of Nantes, the road corresponds to the A83 motorway ; north of the city towards Rennes it is the RN, a free highway. The LGV Atlantique high-speed railway reaches Paris in two hours, ten minutes compared with four hours by car. With almost 12 million passengers each year, the Nantes station is the sixth-busiest in France outside Paris.

Nantes Atlantique Airport in Bouguenais , 8 kilometres 5. Its construction was however strongly opposed, primarily by green and anti-capitalist activists. The potential construction site was long occupied and the project became a political topic on the national scale. The French government eventually decided to renounce to the project in Public transport in Nantes is managed by Semitan , also known as "Tan".

One of the world's first horsebus transit systems was developed in the city in Nantes built its first compressed-air tram network in , which was electrified in Like most European tram networks, Nantes' disappeared during the s in the wake of automobiles and buses.



However, in Nantes was the first city in France to reintroduce trams. The Nantes tramway has three lines and a total of The latter has , passengers annually and succeeds the Roquio service, which operated on the Loire from to the s. Nantes is trying to develop a tram-train system, which would allow suburban trains to run on tram lines; the system already exists in Mulhouse in eastern France and Karlsruhe , Germany. The city has two tram-train lines: Neither is yet connected to the existing tram network, and resemble small suburban trains more than tram-trains. The Bicloo bicycle-sharing system has bicycles at stations.

The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 12 min, while The local press is dominated by the Ouest-France group, which owns the area's two major newspapers: Ouest-France , based in Rennes , covers north-western France and is the country's best-selling newspaper. The Ouest-France group is also a shareholder of the French edition of 20 Minutes , one of two free newspapers distributed in the city.

The other free paper is Direct Matin , which has no local edition. France 3 Pays de la Loire provides local news and programming for the region. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the city in France. For the municipality in Canada, see Nantes, Quebec. Prefecture and commune in Pays de la Loire, France. Top to bottom, left to right: Favet Neptunus eunti Neptune favours the traveller.

List of mayors of Nantes. List of twin towns and sister cities in France.