Nantes
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Nantes is a city in Loire-Atlantique of France on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 320,732 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2020). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations.
Image: Panorama depuis Butte Sainte Anne
Image: Cour intérieure du château des ducs de Bretagne (Nantes) (7339052946)
Image: Nantes passage pommeraye
Image: Ile de Nantes
Gallo language
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Gallo is a regional language of eastern Brittany. It is one of the langues d'oïl, a Romance sub-family that includes French. Today it is spoken only by a minority of the population, as the standard form of French now predominates in this area.
The town of Loudéac displays its Gallo name, Loudia, on signage
A Gallo sign in the Rennes metro
Bilingual signage in the Rennes metro