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| The Canal de Nantes à Brest is a French canal which links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through inland Brittany. It was built during the 19th century and its total length is 364 km (from the Aulne at Landeleau to the Erdre at Nort-sur-Erdre), with 328 locks along its path. The original idea of such a canal is dated from the 16th century but it's only when Brest was blocaded by the English... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Canal de Nantes à Brest
The Canal de Nantes à Brest is a French canal which links the two cities of Nantes and Brest through inland Brittany. It was built during the 19th century and its total length is 364 km (from the Aulne at Landeleau to the Erdre at Nort-sur-Erdre), with 328 locks along its path. -
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Oust (river)
The Oust (Breton: Oud) is a river in Bretagne, France, right tributary of the Vilaine. ... The part of the Oust between Rohan and Redon has been made navigable for small ships, and forms part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Oust River
The Oust (Breton: Oud) is a river in Bretagne, France, right tributary of the Vilaine. ... The part of the Oust between Rohan and Redon has been made navigable for small ships, and forms part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Oust
The Oust (Breton: Oud) is a river in Bretagne, France, right tributary of the Vilaine. ... The part of the Oust between Rohan and Redon has been made navigable for small ships, and forms part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Vilaine
The Vilaine (Breton: Gwilen) is a river in Brittany, in the west of France. ... In Rennes the river connects to the Canal d'Ille et Rance, in Redon it crosses the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Joué-sur-Erdre
Joué-sur-Erdre is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. ... Joué-sur-Erdre hosts two lacs, the lake Vioreau, and the « Little Vioreau » which regularize the water level of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Châteauneuf-du-Faou
Châteauneuf-du-Faou (Breton: Kastell-Nevez-ar-Faou) is a commune in the Finistère department, in Bretagne in north-western France. ... The town is built on a hill overlooking the Canal de Nantes à Brest, which is the canalized river Aulne. -
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Château de Blain
The Château de Blain is a mediaeval castle constructed in the 13th century and heavily remodelled in the 16th. ... The castle stands on the side of the Canal de Nantes à Brest. -
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Aulne
The Aulne is a 140 km long river in the Western part of France, flowing down the hills in French Bretagne and emptying into the roadstead of Brest, one of the many fjord-like bays just south of Brest. The river is part of the Canal de Nantes à Brest, the navigation canal that once connected the city of Nantes on the Loire River with the port town of Brest on the Atlantic coast. -
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Edward Keble Chatterton
Edward Keble Chatterton (September 10, 1878 - December 31, 1944) was a prolific writer who published around a hundred books, pamphlets and magazine series, mainly on maritime and naval themes.... ... He described these in a further series of books: his journeys on the Canal de Nantes à Brest are outlined... on the Canal du Midi are...
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