Collegiate Notre-Dame, Nantes

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The Collège Notre-Dame, or Royal and Collegial Church of Notre-Dame, is a former Catholic church in Nantes, France, built in the late 10th century, and built until the 18th century. It was demolished after being left in a state of ruin in the early nineteenth century. Some parts were shot down at the end of the 19th century. Only a few traces remain on old buildings. The building was the burial place of the Dukes Alain Barbetorte and Pierre II of Brittany, and is therefore a symbolic element in the history of the Duchy of Brittany.

Chapelle Sainte-Marie: When Alain Barbetorte, the first Duke of Brittany, managed to dislodge the Normans of Nantes in 937, he settled in the "castle" of the time, which consisted of a fortification whose shape was roughly a quadrilateral. The angles were approximately located, in the configuration of the 21st century, at the Saint-Pierre Gate, the northwest end of Place Dumoustier, Place du Pilori and the southwest end of the Cours Saint-Pierre. The duke must raise the damaged fortifications, probably on the basis of the previous ones. Location...