** 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 11 cantons:

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.

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.

In April 2007 however, Houllier won his 2nd successive ( Lyon's sixth consecutive ) Ligue 1 title after Toulouse's loss to Rennes.

After the 2006 World Cup, he was invited by French Ligue 1 Championnat club Rennes for a trial but could not meet the deadline for the summer registration. He had trials also with Hamburger SV and Djurgarden in January 2006 following preseason in South Africa. In his first attempt to move outside Ghana he signed a pre-contract for IFK Mariehamn in Finland but with Kotoko asking for more money was never eligible to play for them. In the 2006 / 07 season he joined Israeli side Hapoel Nazareth and later on came close to sign for Danish side Randers FC but eventually signed in October 2007 a two year contract with Swedish Allsvenskan club Gefle IF under manager Per Olsson. When his contract ended and despite interest from 2nd division Bundesliga club he renew for 1 more year with Gefle IF. Finally the season 2012-2013 destiny brought him back in Stockholm and signed for historic club Djurgårdens IF.

During the 2nd World War, the ONF was evacuated to Rennes, then Marseilles and returned to Paris in 1943.

* Rock ' n solex: Oldest French student festival and the 2nd largest music festival in Rennes with more than 30 000 visitors each year.

Matisse, thoroughly unpolitical, was shocked when he heard that his daughter Marguerite, who had been active in the Résistance during the war, was tortured ( almost to death ) in a Rennes prison and sentenced to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.

Two of the leading centres have been the University of Rennes ( France ) and the University of Birmingham ( UK ).

* 2001, La Poterie metro station, Rennes, France

* Général-George-S .- Patton ( avenue ), Rennes, France ( formerly Chemin vicinal n ° 25 )

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.

The French Prison Service operates the Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes, the largest women's prison in France.

Rennes has the third-fastest growing metropolitan area in France.

Rennes invests heavily in arts and culture and a number of its festivals ( such as the music festival Les Transmusicales, les Tombées de la Nuit and Travelling ( a cinematic festival )) are well known throughout France.

Rennes was one of the first towns in France to have its own television channel ' TV Rennes ', created in 1987.

Henry agreed to this plan and in December publicly swore an oath to that effect in the cathedral in Rennes, France.

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

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.

Sixteen other parades take place at cities throughout France in: Angers, Biarritz, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Caen, Le Mans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Rouen, Strassbourg, Toulouse and Tours.

Rennes had also been the administrative capital of the Intendant of Brittany between 1689 and 1789, and Intendances were the most important administrative units of the kingdom of France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

* Campus de Beaulieu, in Rennes ( France );

Montparnasse () is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

When the Duchy of Brittany was united to the kingdom of France in 1532 by the Treaty of Plessis-Macé, Nantes kept the Parliament of Brittany for a few years before it was moved to Rennes.

* Rennes, France