Dr Tony Shaw

This large mural was made by Jean-Yves Jodeau and is at the side of the steps along Rue de l'Échelle in the tourist area of Nantes. Cons...

La Cigale is a restaurant in Nantes, a very famous one, and if a person feels that they really must go there, then so be it. Inside I saw w...

Camille Mellinet (1795-1843) was a printer, journalist and historian who was born in and died in Nantes. In 1820 he took control of the Mala...

Ange Guépin (1805-1873) was a philanthropist doctor and a writer, a Republican, socialist and feminist who played an important role in the p...

The poet René Guy Cadou (1920-1951) is buried with his parents and wife Hélène (1922-2014), who was also a poet. She dedicated much of her l...

Serge Danot (1931-1990) is famed as the inventor of the stop motion animation Le Manège enchantée ( Magic Roundabout in English, although ...

Paimbœuf is an interesting village on the Loire, a former outer harbour of Nantes. Some of its facades are odd, such as the one with compute...

Pierre-Michel-François-Chevalier (1812-63) was an author, historian and journalist born in Paimbœuf and who died in Paris. He was editor-in-...

With a name like Vue, how could such a village not have a boîte à lire ? And this at the time of the visit was quite a well-stocked one. I l...

Flora Moscovici's Le Temps entre les pierres .

On the face of it, the first banner here seems to be right on the button about the problems faced by all today: against globalisation, marke...

This may be a common lizard, but I'm from the UK where such views are rare. I also hugely respect animals, and consider this creature to...

I find this very interesting. An amateur notice tells me that one cigarette end can pollute up to 500 litres of water. Although I've no ...

La Carrière Miséry is in the process of life change. From a quarry for the extraction of granite, the place of the execution of counter-revo...

Tadashi Kawamata is trying to create a link between people and places. This is a long, wooden passageway giving a view of the sky and the ri...

Mrzyk and Moriceau's Lunar Tree   is perhaps best seen in the dark, although I think it stands out well here against a clear blue sky. A...

Philippe Ramette's Éloge du pas de côté is right in the centre of a restaurant area, his besuited man in almost archaic tie with his ey...

Oddly, this is one of the few Boìtes à lire (usually called Boìtes à livres , here called Dépôt des livres ) I've yet to find in the Na...

In the Cours Cambronne, near the statue of the general of the same name, is a modern statue of a schoolgirl clambering onto a statue base – ...

With the full (English!) title of Angela Bulloch's the 'Zebra Crossing, Regulations and General Restrictions', we have an old-fa...