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Title: Wanderings by the Loire
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Ritchie, Leitch, 1800?-1865 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851
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Publisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman Paris : Rittner and Goupil
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the annexed view, whichexhibits, in front, the imposing mass of the chateau,and to the left the masts of some vessels, which indicatethe proximity of the river. With the exception of the Place Royale, and thePlace Graslin, the squares, amounting to thirty-three,are not worth the room which their names wouldoccupy. The ancient name of Nantes was Condivicnum,signifying, in Celtic etymology, the confluence of severalrivers. It was the capital of the Nannetes, who event-ually gave their own name to their metropolis, just asLutecia, the capital of the Parisians, became Paris, andCondate, the capital of the Rhedones, Rennes. Nantes,according to some historians, was founded by Namnes,three hundred years after the deluge ; but the truth is,the Nannetes appear to have been a people of com-paratively little enterprise ; and till the arrival of theNormans, in 834, led on by one of the Counts ofNantes, whom his subjects had discarded, the cityis little mentioned in history. On this occasion, the
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NANTES. 187 besieged retired to the cathedral, with their bishopGohart, and were almost all massacred. From this period the ravages of the Normans —who sometimes remained masters of the district formany years — were continued with little intermissiontill 931, when they sustained a total defeat byAlain-Barbe-Torte, some say in the meadows ofMauves, and others in the parish of Saint-Aignan.When Alain proceeded in triumph to the city, whichhad been in possession of the northern barbariansupwards of twenty years, he found the cathedral sur-rounded with thorns and brambles ; through which hewas obliged to cut his way with his sword, before hecould enter to return thanks for the victory. Twenty-three years after, Nantes was besieged and taken, forthe last time, by the Normans. The famous Edict of Nantes on the state of thereformed church was promulgated by Henri IV., at thechateau; but the city ought to be still more celebratedfor a deed which it left undone. The massacre of SaintBartho

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