Nantes, Home of Rugby?

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Fierce battles over an oval ball were a normal spectacle on the sports fields of Nantes before the First World War.
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Holiday Camps: The Glory Days

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Originally started by Swiss protestants in 1876, holiday camps rapidly became popular amongst Catholics too, as w

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La Baule: A Success Story

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In 1909 Louis Lajarrige, a businessman and politician from Saint-Nazaire, bought the Hôtel Régina (also known as

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A History of Holidays in Brittany

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From the Roaring Twenties to the advent of mass tourism Although the First World War didn’t lead to a huge decline in t
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Fear of Wolves

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Welsh clergyman E. W. L.

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Wolves in Brittany

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Wolves became extinct in Brittany around 120 years ago, but there was a time when these great predators were just as m
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Corsairs

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From the end of the Middle Ages onwards, sovereigns accorded private ship-owners the right to retaliate against s

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The Republic of Saint-Malo (1590-1594)

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During the Wars of Religion, at the end of the 16th century, Saint-Malo freed itself from royal and seigneurial powers
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