Crossword clues for nantes
nantes
- Stake placed between two card players in French port
- French port city
- French city where granny put up?
- Loire estuary port
- Put grandmère back where she might belong
- Brittany city
- Loire Valley city
- Port in the Loire Valley
- Loire city
- French edict city
- Seaport at the mouth of the Loire River
- Port city in western France
- Place of a historic edict
- Loire River city
- Jules Verne's birthplace
- French edict site of 1598
- Edict of ___ (Huguenot Wars ender)
- Edict city of France
- Edict city
- City where Jules Verne was born
- City of western France
- Brittany's largest city
- Site of a 1598 edict
- Port on the Loire
- 1598 edict city
- Birthplace of Jules Verne
- 1598 edict site
- French city where Jules Verne was born
- City known in ancient times as Condivicnum
- City at the mouth of the Loire
- City on the Loire with a quarter million people
- Edict locale of 1598
- A port city in western France on the Loire estuary
- City on the Loire, associated with 1598 edict ending the French Wars of Religion
- Seaport on the Loire
- Edict of ___: 1598
- Edict city: 1598
- City of a famous edict
- French city with a 1598 edict
- First city of Brittany
- Loire seaport
- French port
- Loire port
- Cheeky couple touring northern city in France
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wikipedia
Nantes (, Gallo: Naunnt) is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a metropolitan area of about 900,000 inhabitants.
Nantes is the capital city of the Pays de la Loire region and the Loire-Atlantique département, and it is the largest city in traditional Brittany and in the whole Grand-Ouest (northwestern France). Together with Vannes, Rennes and Carhaix, it was one of the major cities of the historic province of Brittany and the ancient Duchy of Brittany. Nantes is still widely regarded as its capital city.
The Nantes Tramway opened in 1985, a reversal of the trend of tramway closures that had been going on since the middle of the 20th century. The tramway system is one of the largest and busiest in France. The city also has a Busway line, an innovative and notable bus rapid transit. Nantes is served by an international airport, Nantes Atlantique Airport and a major French railway station, the Gare de Nantes.
In 2004, Time named Nantes as "the most liveable city in Europe". In 2010, Nantes was named a hub city for innovation in the Innovation Cities Index by innovation agency 2thinknow. The city was ranked 36th globally from 289 cities and 4th overall in France, behind Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg for innovation across multiple sectors of the economy. , Nantes holds the title of European Green Capital, awarded by the European Commission for its efforts to reduce air pollution and CO emissions, for its high-quality and well-managed public transport system, and for its biodiversity with 3,366 hectares of green spaces and several Natura 2000 zones which guarantee protection of nature in the area.
Euronantes is the city's central business district, which is currently in development near Gare de Nantes and on Île de Nantes, offering by 2015 500,000 square metres of office space, retail space and upscale hotels. The district is served by Busway line 4 at Cité Internationale des congrès et Tripode stations.
In 2012, Nantes was classified as a global city by the GAMMA GaWC ranking of Loughborough University in England. Nantes is the fourth highest-ranked French city (behind Paris, Lyon and Marseille) according to its classification. Nantes was ranked ahead of cities such as Porto, Florence, New Orleans, Hanover, and Genoa.
Usage examples of "nantes".
French Huguenots, which just before and just after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes brought to New York and its neighborhood a half-dozen congregations, accompanied by pastors whose learning, piety, and devotion to the work of Christ were worthy of that school of martyrdom in which they had been trained.
He it was who instigated the massacres of September, the atrocities of Nantes, the horrors of Thermidor, the sacrileges, the noyades: all with the view of causing every section of the National Assembly to vie with the other in excesses and in cruelty, until the makers of the Revolution, satiated with their own lust, turned on one another, and Sardanapalus-like buried themselves and their orgies in the vast hecatomb of a self-consumed anarchy.
To the feeble descendants of Clovis and Charlemagne, the Britons of Armorica refused the customary tribute, subdued the neighboring dioceses of Vannes, Rennes, and Nantes, and formed a powerful, though vassal, state, which has been united to the crown of France.
In Nantes and Angers, in Saumur, Thouars, and other towns in which the presence of Republican forces commanded the adhesion of the inhabitants this event was commemorated by illuminations, but this very show of joy at so cruel a murder, more than the murder itself, acerbated the feelings both of the gentry and the peasants.
Goethe, Shakespeare, Napoleon, Savonarola, Joan of Arc, the French Revolution, the Edict of Nantes, Clive, Wellington, Waterloo, Plassey, Patay, Cowpens, Saratoga, the Battle of the Boyne, the invention of the logarithms, the microscope, the steam-engine, the telegraph-- anything and everything all over the world--we dumped it all in among the English pegs according to it date and regardless of its nationality.
He was certainly strong enough to revoke the Edict of Nantes in 1685 and outlaw Protestantism in France.
Did they think I would not learn about the revocation of the Edict of Nantes?
He was supposed to be a champion of religious toleration, but went no further in his anxiety to give the benefits of generous forbearance to dissenters than the restoration of the Edict of Nantes.
You will see that I shall be overwhelmed with petitions and pamphlets, demanding of me the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
This event may be likened to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Calvinists and, since the Edict of Nantes was revoked, we need converting.
It was his death that sparked the riots that lead to the Second Edict of Nantes, and eventually to the French Revolution.
Beneath a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Under a large tree near by fell the German general, Duplat, of a French family which fled on the revocation of the edict of Nantes.
He was casually inspecting a chart showing the entrance to the Loire River, on which Nantes stood, when it occurred to him that at that moment he was only a short sail south of England, and he began to see the pleasant images that name evoked: his English wife, his daughter, the honest men at Fithians, the serenity.