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Geoffroy Plantagenêt (Geoffroi le Bel) In golden brass and encrusted enamels (middle of the 12th century). Tessé museum, Le Mans. |
With a seaside on Atlantique Ocean and the port of Nantes, the Lands of the Loire river are constituted with Anjou, Maine, Nantais and Vendean bocage. Domain of the Plantagenêt family, the wedding of Geoffroy with Mathilde heir of Normandy and England dynastic families will give to this kingdom one of its more brilliant lineage (with Richard Lion's Heart, especially). It also provocates, in the following centuries, the war of the Hundred Years between Anglo-Burgundians and French. All along its history, this wound will be never healed and from a war to another one between the Protestants and the Catholics then between the Vendeans and the Republican army (during the French Revolution). The commerce will prosper there, however, with Tours, first, then Nantes thanks to trade with the New World. |
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