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Vannes is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Morbihan
Morbihan

Morbihan is a departments of France in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan , the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline....
 department in Bretagne
Bretagne

Bretagne is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south....
 in northwestern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

It was founded over 2000 years ago.

es is located on the Gulf of Morbihan
Gulf of Morbihan

The Gulf of Morbihan is a natural harbour on the coast of the D?partement in France of Morbihan in the south of Brittany, France. This English name is taken from the French language version: le golfe du Morbihan....
 at the mouth of the Vannes River. It is a market town and often linked to the sea.

oritum (first name of Vannes) was founded in the first century BC by the Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
.

The diocese of Vannes was erected in the 5th century.






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Vannes is a commune
Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative divisions in the France. The French word commune appeared in the 12th century, from Medieval Latin Medieval commune, meaning a small gathering of people sharing a common life, from Latin communis, things held in common....
 in the Morbihan
Morbihan

Morbihan is a departments of France in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan , the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline....
 department in Bretagne
Bretagne

Bretagne is one of the 26 regions of France of France. It occupies a large peninsula in the northwest of the country, lying between the English Channel to the north and the Bay of Biscay to the south....
 in northwestern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

It was founded over 2000 years ago.

Geography

Vannes is located on the Gulf of Morbihan
Gulf of Morbihan

The Gulf of Morbihan is a natural harbour on the coast of the D?partement in France of Morbihan in the south of Brittany, France. This English name is taken from the French language version: le golfe du Morbihan....
 at the mouth of the Vannes River. It is a market town and often linked to the sea.

History

Darioritum (first name of Vannes) was founded in the first century BC by the Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
.

The diocese of Vannes was erected in the 5th century. The Council of Vannes was held here in 461.

The first historical ruler of Vannes was Waroch
Waroch

Waroch was an early Breton people ruler of the Vannetais. Waroch gave his name to the traditional French province of Bro?rec . However, it is possible that there were several successive local leaders with this name....
.

Demographics

Inhabitants of Vannes are called Vannetais.

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on October the 12th of 2007.

In 2007, there was 7,5% of the children attended the bilingual schools in primary education.

Architecture

  • Cathedral of St Peter
    Vannes Cathedral

    Vannes Cathedral or St. Peter's Cathedral, Vannes , which also carries the title Basilica, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Vannes, Brittany, France....
  • Church of St Patern
  • Château Gaillard (archaeological museum)
  • Cohu (cultural museum)
  • Hôtel de Ville
  • Tour du Connétable (part of the old city walls)


In fiction

In the novel
Novel

File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
s of Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, père

Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
, the musketeer Aramis
Aramis

Chevalier. Ren? d'Aramis de Vannes is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, p?re....
 appears at one point as bishop of Vannes.

Personalities

Vannes was the birthplace of:
  • Francis I
    Francis I, Duke of Brittany

    Francis I , was duke of Brittany, count of Montfort and titular earl of Richmond, from 1442 to his death. He was son of Duke John VI, Duke of Brittany and Joan of France , princess of France....
     (1414–1450), duke of Brittany
    Duke of Brittany

    The Duchy of Brittany was a medieval tribal and feudal state covering the Armorican peninsula west of Mont-Saint-Michel and north of Nantes/Naoned, including Rennes/Roazhon and Vannes/Gwened....
  • Paul César Helleu
    Paul César Helleu

    Paul C?sar Helleu An artist, born in Vannes, Brittany, France, best known for his portraits of many of the most famous and beautiful women of his time including the Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Elisabeth, comtesse Greffulhe, Luisa Casati and Belle da Costa Greene, librarian to J....
     (1859–1927), artist
  • Yves Rocard
    Yves Rocard

    Yves-Andr? Rocard was a France physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.After obtaining a double doctorate in mathematics and physics he was awarded the professorship in electronic physics at the ?cole normale sup?rieure in Paris....
     (1903–1992), physicist
  • Alain Resnais
    Alain Resnais

    'Alain Resnais' is a French film director whose early works are often grouped within the French New Wave or nouvelle vague film movement. Although he has had a long and fruitful career, Resnais is best known for three early works that deal with themes of memory and trauma: Night and Fog , Hiroshima Mon Amour , and Last Year at M...
     (born 1922), film director
    Film director

    A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
  • Yves Coppens
    Yves Coppens

    Yves Coppens is a French anthropology. He graduated from the University of Rennes. He has studied ancient Hominidaes and has had multiple published works on this topic, and has also produced a film....
     (born 1934), anthropologist
    Anthropology

    Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
  • Bernard Poignant
    Bernard Poignant

    Bernard Poignant is a Politics of France and Member of the European Parliament for the European Parliament election, 2004 #Seats of France. He is a member of the Socialist Party , which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sits on the European Parliament's European Parliament Committee on Fisheries and its European Parliament Com...
     (born 1945), French politician
    Politics of France

    The Politics of France take place in a framework of a semi-presidential system representative democracy republic, whereby the President of France is head of state and the Prime Minister of France head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system....
  • Mathieu Berson
    Mathieu Berson

    Mathieu Berson is a French football who currently plays for Toulouse FC as a midfielder....
     (born 1980), footballer
    Football (soccer)

    Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....


Sister cities

Vannes is paired with:
  • Mons
    Mons

    Mons is a Walloon Region city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of Hainaut , of which it is the capital....
    , Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
     since 1952
  • Cuxhaven
    Cuxhaven

    Cuxhaven is a large independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven , in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the shore of the North Sea at the mouth of the Elbe River....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
     since 1963
  • Fareham
    Fareham

    The market town of Fareham lies in the south east of Hampshire, England, between the cities of Southampton and Portsmouth, roughly in the centre of the South Hampshire conurbation....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     since 1967
It has partnerships (partenariats) with:
  • Barouéli
    Barouéli

    Barou?li is a town and Communes of Mali and seat of the Barou?li Cercle in the S?gou Region of southern-central Mali. As of 1998 the commune had a population of 32,739....
    , Mali
    Mali

    Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked nation in West Africa. Mali is the seventh largest country in Africa, bordering Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the C?te d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west....
  • Walbrzych
    Walbrzych

    Walbrzych is a city in Lower Silesian Voivodeship in south-western Poland, with 125,773 inhabitants . From 1975–1998 it was the capital of Walbrzych Voivodeship; it is now the seat of Walbrzych County....
    , Poland
    Poland

    Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....


See also

  • Veneti (Gaul)
    Veneti (Gaul)

    The Veneti were a seafaring Celtic people who lived in the Brittany peninsula , which in Roman times formed part of an area called Aremorica. They gave their name to the modern city of Vannes....
  • Saint Meriasek
    Saint Meriasek

    Saint Meriasek was a 4th century Britanny saint. The legends of his life are known through Beunans Meriasek, a Cornish language play completed in 1504, and a few other sources....
  • Operation Dingson
    Operation Dingson

    During World War II, Operation Dingson was a large operation conducted by about 160 French paratroops of the 2e Regiment de Chasseurs Parachutistes , also known as 4 SAS, commanded by Colonel Pierre-Louis Bourgoin, who jumped into Nazism-occupied France near Vannes, France on the night of 5 June, 1944....
  • Communes of the Morbihan department


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