** Serial poisoner Hélène Jégado is arrested in Rennes, France.

* Battle of Conquereuil: Fulk Nerra defeats Conan I of Rennes, who is killed in the battle.

Rennes (, Gallo: Resnn,, ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France.

Rennes is the capital of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department.

Rennes is the administrative capital of the French department Ille-et-Vilaine.

The oldest known Rennais is Titus Flavius Postuminus, known to us from his steles found in Rennes in 1969.

Rennes is divided into 12 quarters:

The current mayor of Rennes is Daniel Delaveau.

The ( City hall ) is right in the centre of Rennes.

Rennes is classified as a city of art and history.

The Parlement de Bretagne ( Administrative and judicial centre of Brittany, ) is the most famous 17th century building in Rennes.

Near the Rennes Cathedral ( cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Rennes ) is the rue du Chapitre:

Les Champs Libres is a building on Esplanade Charles de Gaulle designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc that houses the Brittany Museum ( Musée de Bretagne ), regional library Bibliothèque de Rennes Métropole on six levels and an Espace des Sciences science centre with a planetarium.

Rennes is one of first Technopoles in France that were established in an effort to stimulate the economies of regions other than Paris during the Aménagement du territoire.

Rennes is the 2nd concentration of ITC firms in France after Paris ( with well-known companies like Atos, SFR, Orange France Telecom, Technicolor R & D, Canon, Mitsubishi, Alcatel-Lucent, Texas Instruments, NXP, Thales or Logica ), and the 3rd innovation potential in agrofood French industry.

In Rennes is the only Institut Franco-Américain in France.

An École Supérieure for political science, Institut d ' études politiques de Rennes ( site ), is also based in Rennes.

There is also branches of École Supérieure d ' Électricité – Supélec and Telecom Bretagne in the east of the city ( Cesson-Sévigné ), a campus of the École pour l ' informatique et les nouvelles technologies, Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes and the grande école Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, which is next to the " École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes ".

Rennes is home to Stade Rennais F. C., who play at Route de Lorient stadium ( capacity of 31, 000 seats ) in the French Division One.

Hoël inherited a divided Brittany, split into six largely independent regions: Rennes ; Panthièvre and Léon ; Cornouaille ; the Broërec and Nantes.

Before the French revolution, prior to the integration of the Duchy of Brittany into the Kingdom of France, Rennes was the capital of the duchy, with the other historical capitals of Brittany's Ducal period being Nantes and Vannes.

A recent hypothesis presented by David Lamaze, a composition teacher at the Conservatoire de Rennes in France, is that he hid in his music representations of the nickname and the name of Misia Godebska, transcribed into two groups of notes, Godebska

In 1859 the Breton dioceses except that of Nantes were constituted into a province of Rennes.

Through his work with the Institute, Céline had come into contact, and good standing, with Monsieur Follet, the director of the medical school in Rennes.

Basel were then drawn into a ' death group ' of Group D alongside SK Brann, Dinamo Zagreb, Hamburger SV and Rennes, all of which were ranked within the top three of their own leagues at the start of the stage.

In the end the synod of Coitlouh and the bringing of the bishoprics of Rennes and Nantes into the Breton fold meant that the church of Brittany was an actively independent ecclesiastic polity from its nominal metropolitan, the Metropolitan of Tours.

The victory at Blain having secured control of Nantes and Rennes, he raided into Frankish territory, defeating the Franks at the Battle of Ballon in 845.

Pinault put a substantial amount of funding into the club and sought to increase Rennes ' production of youth talent by constructing a training center.

Emerson could not break into the first team at Rennes.

Born in Yorkshire, Bottomley was educated at Halifax School and the University of Rennes in Brittany before being commissioned into the East Yorkshire Regiment in 1914 during World War I.

It flows into the Vilaine in the city Rennes.

During his time at Rennes between 1998 and 2001, Le Guen was noted for signing then unknown players, such as Shabani Nonda and El Hadji Diouf, who under his guidance, developed into talented footballers.

L ' Or de Rennes was to have a lasting impact on British script-writer Henry Lincoln, who read the book while on holiday in the Cévennes in 1969, leading him to inspire three BBC Two Chronicle documentaries, as well as working some of its material into the 1982 bestseller Holy Blood, Holy Grail which itself was used as source material for the bestselling 2003 novel by Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code.

He then took up a graffiti campaign directed against François Ripert ( the préfet of Ille-et-Vilaine ), and unleashed some of his comrades into the botanical garden of Rennes, to smash the statue of the " traitor " Bertrand du Guesclin.

The School was originally located in Ringmahon House and surrounding pre-fabricated buildings until we moved into our beautiful new building on Avenue de Rennes ( entrance at Lakeland Crescent ) in February 2001.

Conan II of Rennes ( c. 1033 – 11 December 1066 ) was Duke of Brittany, from 1040 to his death.

From 1972 – 1994, Rennes were supervised by 11 different managers and, during the years, consistently hovered between Division 1 and Division 2.

Théophile Bidard ( 11 March 1804, Rennes – 23 October 1877 ) was a well-known law professor in Rennes, France during the 1840s and 1850s.

| Julienne Despeignes wife Blouin, French woman from Ercé-en-Lamée, in Brittany, 35 km south Rennes, France, born on February 13, 1705, gave birth to her last daughter, Magdelaine, on June 11, 1757, at the age of 52 years and almost 4 months, after conceiving naturally with her husband Pierre.

Zenden made his competitive debut for Marseille on 11 August 2007, starting and eventually being substituted in a 0 – 0 stalemate with Rennes.

On the 11 September 1943, at Rennes, he and Colonel Hartmut Pulmer ( chief of the Sicherheitsdienst at Rennes ) signed the foundation convention of a new unit to be called Bezen Kadoudal, named after the Breton rebel Georges Cadoudal.