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 ...

For many, the film director Jacques Demy is a highly important figure in the history of Nantes, and certainly the Médiathèque is named after...

The artist Ador's mural at the Hangar à bananes on L'île de Nantes. His works exist in a number of local places, buildings in Nante...

  Transfert was born in 2018 on the wasteland left by former abattoirs in Rezé. It was intended as ' une zone libre d’art et de culture ...

It seems that the sisters Topette and Carafon – street musicians (with a violin) in Nantes during the 1920s, and from an upper middle-class ...

The writer and ship owner Pierre-Hildevert Lagarde was a friend of Jules Verne and the composer Aristide Hignard (also a friend of Verne, wi...

The initials of the surnames of Jean-Romain Lefèvre (1819-83) and Pauline Utile (1830-1922) provide the name of the world famous biscuit LU,...

It is ironic that the person responsible for the magnificent Passage Pommeraye in the centre of Nantes – which is certainly the biggest attr...

Sylvain Royé (1891-1916) was a poet born in Nantes who died in World War I in Douaumont. A plaque on his grave gives a few lines from his po...

Pierre-Gabriel Verne (1799-1871) and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe (1800-87) were the parents of Jules Verne, who was born in Nantes and whose pr...

Philippe Gengembre (1764-1838) was born in Houdain, Pas-de-Calais, and was a chemist and inventor. He became an expert in powder chemistry a...

Oddly, Marc Elder (1884-1933) isn't featured in many guides to this cemetery, not even – at the time that I post this – in Wikipédia...

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...