Published in 1563, comments in Polish Calvinist translation in the Brest Bible point Tychicus and Onesimus to be authors of the epistle.

The Daily Universal Register of 11 November 1786 had stated: " the Botany Bay scheme is laid aside, as there is a strong presumption that a squadron from Brest are now, or soon will be, in possession of the very spot we meant to occupy in New Holland ".

At this time, Paris executions were carried out in the Place de la Revolution ( former Place Louis XV and current Place de la Concorde ); the guillotine stood in the corner near the Hôtel Crillon where the statue of Brest can be found today.

Due to its location, Brest is regarded as the first French port that can be accessed from the Americas.

** To be noted that Brest is one of the hosts for the Indiana University Honors Foreign Language Program

* 1974: Pierre Lelong – Secretary of State for the PTT ( literally Postal Telegraph and Telephone ) – decides to establish a second school of telecommunications that will be located in the Brest area.

Another promising venture seemed to be what has become known as the " Brest Affair.

" In September, 1782, after the Dutch politicians had hesitantly agreed to coordinate their actions with the French, acting " in concert ," there seemed to be an opportunity to combine a Dutch squadron of ten ships of the line with the French squadron at Brest, as the British fleet in the Channel had suddenly sailed south.

Historians such as John Paget and C. T. Atkinson conclude that he probably did write the letter, but did so only when he knew that it would be received too late for its information to be of any practical use ( the plan of the attack on Brest was widely known, and the French had already begun to strengthen their defences in April ).

Because of the break-of-gauge at Brest, where the Russian broad gauge meets the European standard gauge, all passenger trains, coming from Poland, must have their bogies replaced here, to travel on across Belarus, and the freight must be transloaded from cars of one gauge to cars of another.

Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, 70 km north of Brest, is a biosphere reserve of world distinction and can be reached by car or bus.

Brest can easily be reached from Warsaw ( Poland ) by taking the daily sleeper train to Brest Centralnaya ( Brest Central ) from the central train station in Warsaw, although visas must be sorted out for EU passport holders before travelling.

The division then raced toward ( Brest / France ), the heavily defended port fortress which happened to be a major port for German U-Boats.

With the fall of France in spring 1940, ports such as Brest, France were quickly turned into large submarine bases from which British trade could be attacked.

This was to be a critical factor as the pursuit continued, forcing Bismarck to make for Brest instead of escaping into the great expanse of the Atlantic.

* December 21 – The first aircraft carrier designed as such to be launched in France, Clemenceau, is launched by the Brest Arsenal at Brest .< ref > Gardiner, Robert, Conways All the Worlds Fighting Ships 1947-1982, Part One: The Western Powers, < Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 1983, ISBN 0-87021-418-7, p. 28 .</ ref >

Mogilyov was the largest urban centre of the territory of present-day Belarus, followed by Vitebsk, Polotsk, Pinsk, Slutsk, and Brest, whose population exceeded 10, 000.

With 142, 722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area ( with a population of 300, 300 in total ), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 22nd most populous city in France ; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany.

Although Brest is by far the largest city in Finistère, the préfecture ( regional capital ) of the department is the much smaller Quimper.

Brest is also an important research centre, mainly focused on the sea, with among others the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre, le Cedre ( Centre of Documentation, Research and Experimentation on Accidental Water Pollution ) and the French Polar Institute.

** the largest Ifremer ( French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea ) centre ( in Plouzané next to Brest ); about 1000 people work there.

the largest stadium in Brest

It is the centre of the largest district in Brest voblast.

* link = European route E30-: Cork – Waterford – Wexford – Rosslare … Fishguard – Swansea – Bridgend-Cardiff – Newport – Bristol – London – Colchester – Ipswich – Felixstowe … Hook of Holland – The Hague – Gouda – Utrecht – Amersfoort – Oldenzaal – Osnabrück – Bad Oeynhausen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Berlin – Świebodzin – Poznań – Warsaw – Brest – Minsk – Smolensk – Moscow – Ryazan – Penza – Samara – Ufa – Chelyabinsk – Kurgan – Ishim – Omsk

* link = European route E50-: Brest – Rennes – Le Mans – Paris – Reims – Metz – Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Heilbronn – Nuremberg – Rozvadov – Plzeň – Prague – Jihlava – Brno – Trenčín – Prešov – Košice – Vyšné Nemecké – Uzhhorod – Mukachevo – Stryj – Ternopil – Khmelnytskyi – Vinnytsia – Uman – Kirovohrad – Dnipropetrovsk – Donetsk – Rostov-on-Don – Armavir – Mineralnye Vody – Makhachkala ... also known as " Via Caroli "

* link = European route E60-: Brest – Lorient – Vannes – Nantes – Angers – Tours – Orléans – Montargis – Auxerre – Beaune – Dole – Besançon – Belfort – Mulhouse – Basel – Zürich – Winterthur – St. Gallen – St. Margrethen – Bregenz – Feldkirch – Landeck – Telfs – Innsbruck – Lauterach – Feldkirch – Imst – Innsbruck – Wörgl – Rosenheim – Bad Reichenhall – Salzburg – Sattledt – Linz – Sankt Pölten – Vienna – Nickelsdorf – Mosonmagyaróvár – Budapest – Szolnok – Püspökladány – Oradea – Cluj-Napoca – Turda – Târgu Mureş – Braşov – Ploieşti – Bucharest – Urziceni – Slobozia – Hârşova – Constanţa-Agigea … Poti – Senaki-Samtredia-Kutaisi – Khashuri – Gori – Tbilisi – Rustavi – Ganja – Yevlakh – Baku … Türkmenbaşy – Gyzylarbat – Ashgabat – Tejen – Mary – Türkmenabat – Alat – Bukhara – Karshi – Guzar – Sherobod – Termez – Dushanbe – Jirgatal – Sary Tash – Irkeshtam

Being situated on the main railway line connecting Berlin and Moscow, and an intercontinental highway ( the European route E30 ), Brest became a principal border crossing since World War II in Soviet times.

* The number of the European route E60 from Brest, France, to Constanţa, Romania

The film won awards at the Brest European Short Film Festival and the L. A. Outfest.

The Dutch fleet provided a substantial reinforcement to the French forces in Northern European waters, which were principally based at Brest on the Atlantic Ocean and whose main opponent was the Royal Navy's Channel Fleet.

European route E 60 is the second longest E-road running from Brest, France ( on the Atlantic coast ), to Irkeshtam, Kyrgyzstan ( on the border with People's Republic of China ).

The Musée national de la Marine de Brest, housed in the ancient castle, contains exhibits which outline Brest's maritime tradition, as well as an aquarium, the Océanopolis marine centre.

File: Place liberté2 800x600. JPG | Monumental perspective from the Place de la Liberté opening to the rue de Siam ( Siam Street ), with the rade de Brest ( Brest roadstead ) in the background, and on the right, the steeple of Saint-Louis church dominating the rebuilt centre of Brest.

The Penfeld river, historic centre of the arsenal of Brest

Primarily research centre of western Brittany, Brest and its surrounding area is the home of several research and elite educational establishments:

Guderian ( centre ) and Semyon Krivoshein ( right ) at the German – Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk | joint German – Soviet parade in Brest, Belarus | Brest-Litovsk on September 22, 1939.

The cable office at Porthcurno was a critical communications centre and considered at serious risk of attack during the Second World War being only about from the port of Brest in occupied France.

They visited the shipyards at Brest and Pierre had to sign the register, vouching for the integrity of the visiting foreigner.

He briefly reported from Cherbourg and Brest, sailing for Plymouth less than twenty-four hours before the French surrender.

By 1913 the French and British had plans in place for joint naval action against Germany, and France moved its Atlantic fleet from Brest to Toulon, replacing British ships.

Menachem Begin was born to Zeev Dov and Hassia Biegun in Brest-Litovsk ( Brest ), a town then part of the Russian Empire which was known for its Talmudic scholars.

Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbors of Le Havre and Brest, as stated in the explanatory text of a 1784 painting.

They would then return, assist the fleet in Brest to emerge from the blockade, and together clear the English Channel of Royal Navy ships, ensuring a safe passage for the invasion barges.

Unlike William Cornwallis, who maintained a tight blockade of Brest with the Channel Fleet, Nelson adopted a loose blockade in hopes of luring the French out for a major battle.

In 1917, during the First World War, Brest was used as the disembarking port for many of the troops coming from the United States.

In 1944, after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the city was almost totally destroyed during the Battle for Brest, with only a tiny number of buildings left standing.

After the war, the West German government paid several billion deutschemarks in reparations to the homeless and destitute civilians of Brest in compensation for the destruction of their city.

Brest is best known for its Pont de Recouvrance ( Recouvrance Bridge, a massive drawbridge 64 m / 210 ft high ), the military arsenal and the rue de Siam ( Siam Street ).

File: StLouisSiam. jpg | Saint-Louis church of Brest, rebuilt after the Second World War, between 1953 and 1958 in a modernist style, is worth seeing for its stained glass.

Brest also hosts headquarters for many subsidiaries like the banking group Arkéa ... Brest has the 9th French commercial harbour including ship repairs and maintenance.

Since 1901 Brest has served as the midpoint for the bicycle endurance event, Paris – Brest – Paris.

* Battle for Brest

Early in 1797, the Spanish fleet of 27 ships of the line, which were supposed to join the French fleet at Brest lay at Cartagena, on the Mediterranean Sea, with the intention of sailing to Cádiz as an escort of a 57 merchant convoy, carrying mainly mercury — necessary for gold and silver production — which would eventually enter that Spanish harbour along with warships Neptuno, Terrible and Bahama, prior to running into the British force.

Fréminet called his invention machine hydrostatergatique and used it successfully for more than ten years in the harbours of Le Havre and Brest, as states the explaining text of a 1784 painting.