He was buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Nazaire at Carcassonne.

During World War II La Baule formed part of the protective stretch of coast leading to the nearby harbour city of Saint-Nazaire, home of one of the biggest U-Boat stations the Germans ever built.

After this time, Saint-Nazaire became the seat of a parish extending from Penhoët to Pornichet, part of the Viscountcy of Saint-Nazaire.

Like the whole of Brittany, Saint-Nazaire formed part of the Duchy of Brittany until 1532, when it was annexed by France.

In 1932, the casino of Saint-Nazaire came bankrupt and was resold to the town of Nantes: the site was redeveloped from 1935 with the first part of the current Saint-Louis school.

As part of Operation Ariel, Saint-Nazaire like Dunkirk became an evacuation point for the British back to England, with those successfully embarking including the writer John Renshaw Starr.

Saint-Nazaire is the French form of Saint Nazarius and the name or part of the name of several places:

Saint-Nazaire is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:

* Saint-Nazaire River, a river of northern France, tributary of the Souchez, the name of the higher part of the Deûle.

Chantiers de l ' Atlantique, is a Saint-Nazaire, France based shipyard ; which forms part of the STX France SA business unit-majority owned by STX Europe with a 66. 6 % stake and the balance 33. 34 % held by the French state.

This development made the town the base for the passenger steamships of the Nantes – Saint-Nazaire line, as well as making the town the alternate port for ships which could not access Nantes.

In 1868, Saint-Nazaire became a sub-prefecture in lieu of the town of Savenay.

A second dock basin was created at Penhoët in 1881, to allow the servicing of larger ships, but a lock gate built to access it cut the town in two, thus creating Old Saint-Nazaire and an artificial island called " Little Morocco ".

Les vacances was shot in the town of Saint-Marc-sur-Mer, which lies on the edge of the industrial port of Saint-Nazaire, in the Département of Loire-Atlantique.

** WWII: A Luftwaffe Junkers 88 bomber sinks the British ship RMS Lancastria, which was evacuating troops from near Saint-Nazaire, France, killing some 5, 800 men.

The car ferries from Gijón to Nantes / Saint-Nazaire, Portsmouth to Bilbao and from Plymouth, Portsmouth and Poole to Santander provide one of the most convenient ways to see cetaceans in European waters.

Cohn-Bendit's political opponents took advantage of his German passport and had him expelled from Saint-Nazaire to Germany on 22 May as a " seditious alien ".

The worst disasters were the loss of the Cunarder Lancastria in 1940 off Saint-Nazaire to German bombing while attempting to evacuate troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France, with the loss of more than 3, 000 lives ; the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with more than 9, 000 lives lost, and the sinking of the Cap Arcona with more than 7, 000 lives lost in the Baltic Sea in 1945.

This episode is called Poche de Saint-Nazaire from the French expression poche de resistance.

The modern Saint-Nazaire was created by the administration of Napoleon III, and came about from the various national and regional truces which had prevented its development up to that point.

In 1862, the first transatlantic telegraph lines were installed from France towards South America, which came ashore at Saint-Nazaire.

The Souchez is formed from the union, in the village Souchez, of two smaller brooks, Carency and Saint-Nazaire.

Polish soldiers who were unable to sail for England from Saint-Nazaire flocked onto the beach and the pier in the fishing port where large ships were able to dock.

Category: People from Saint-Nazaire

Category: People from Saint-Nazaire

Until the 1970s, Nantes ' harbour was located on the Île de Nantes, when it was moved to the very mouth of the Loire River, at Saint-Nazaire.

However Cohn-Bendit had already retreated on 10 May with a few friends to the Atlantic coast city of Saint-Nazaire, seeing that his Nanterre group had become a minority without political influence in the larger Paris students ' movement.

As a result of MNR's low electoral results, Franck Timmermans and a few other former MNR members formed a new party in 2005, called the Parti populiste ( Populist Party, PP ) which tends to get closer of original Front national ( Timmermans will later join Front national's cantonal campaign by representing it in Saint-Nazaire, as other candidates in Northern France on March 2008 ).

Such a case was Operation Chariot of 1942, in which the old destroyer HMS Campbeltown was packed with explosives and rammed into the dry dock at Saint-Nazaire, France, to deny its use to the battleship Tirpitz, which could not drydock anywhere else on the French west coast.

Such was the importance attached the area by the Germans that their troops kept fighting in La Baule and Saint-Nazaire for nine months longer than in the rest of the department, eventually surrendering on May 11, 1945 ( 3 days after the German unconditional surrender ), making this one of the last liberated parts of France.

In 1926 the district of Paimbœuf was suppressed and merged with the district of Saint-Nazaire, thus reinforcing the influence of the city on the south bank of the Loire River.

Bad weather and low clouds prevented a Luftwaffe attack and hence another disaster along the lines of the one that had happened a few days earlier, on June 17, in Saint-Nazaire, with the sinking of the British liner Lancastria which was attempting to evacuate UK soldiers and civilians.

It is centered on ( in île Dumet near Saint-Nazaire, France ) or on ( in the city of Nantes, France ).

On 19 September 1944, the Germans on the Crozon Peninsula had surrendered but pockets in L ' Orient and in Saint-Nazaire did not surrender until May 1945.

The first operational YB-40 sortie took place on 29 May 1943 against U-boat Sub pens at Saint-Nazaire, France.

France also boasts a number of seaports and harbours, including Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg-Octeville, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Le Havre, Lorient, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Paris, Port-la-Nouvelle, Port-Vendres, Roscoff, Rouen, Saint-Nazaire, Saint-Malo, Sète, Strasbourg and Toulon.

* 1940 – World War II: sinking of the by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.

Along the same lines, Raeder wanted major new bases for the Kriegsmarine at Trondheim, Saint-Nazaire, and Lorient and for bases at undetermined locations in the Canary Islands and in Morocco.

Shipping is big business, although Nantes and Saint-Nazaire offer much larger docks and attract more of the larger vessels.

They built the Château Comtal and the Basilica of Saint-Nazaire.

Later in the year the architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, already at work restoring the Basilica of Saint-Nazaire, was commissioned to renovate the place.

The urban areas of Nantes and Saint-Nazaire operate their own urban transport networks, known as Tan and Stran respectively.

Following the German breakthrough in France, his unit was evacuated to England via Saint-Nazaire.

Saint-Nazaire (; ; Gallo: ), is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Given its location, Saint-Nazaire has a long tradition of fishing and shipbuilding.

According to the 15th-century chronicler Alain Bouchart, Brutus of Troy, the mythical ancestor of the Bretons, travelled toward Saint-Nazaire to set foot upon the new homeland of his people.

The furthest extent of the ancient Breton language in the Loire region is Donges, to the east of Saint-Nazaire.

After this point, the history of Saint-Nazaire, like much of Europe during the Dark Ages, is not well understood.