Themes

Nantes was the capital of the duchy of Brittany for 1100 years, from 530 to 1532, when Brittany was joined to the kingdom of France through the marriage of François I to Claude, daughter of Anne de Bretagne.
Then, Rennes became the capital. But Nantes and its region Loire-Atlantique remained part of Brittany until 1941, when Pétain decided to swap that department to the region "Pays de Loire".
However, according to a survey, a majority of the population would like to be breton.