PARIS -- Eight days after the police shot dead the self-confessed killer of four Jews and three French paratroopers in Toulouse, the French police on Friday detained 17 people described as Islamic militants in that city and other parts of France. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, said that the detentions were not directly related to the...
NANTES, FRANCE -- The 50-ton wooden elephant raises its trunk, bellows and, having aimed the oversize trunk at a couple of bystanders, lets off a cool spray of water. The dozens of tourists riding atop the beast laugh and wave as the elephant lumbers around its surprising stomping grounds, the Île de Nantes, once a center of French shipbuilding....
The French police have exhumed five bodies from a freshly dug grave at a house in the northwestern city of Nantes. The remains were believed to be those of a family who lived in the house and disappeared almost three weeks ago. The discoveries began Thursday when investigators dug up a human leg from under a porch overlooking the family's backyard....
Nantes er en fransk by i den vestlige del af landet nær Atlanterhavet. Nantes er hovedby i regionen Pays de la Loire. Byen er Frankrigs sjettestørste by. Nantes er kendt for at være en meget dynamisk by. De mange uddannelsessteder gør, at mange unge tiltrækkes af bylivet i Nantes.
Nantes, ligger ved udmundingen af Loire-floden i det vestlige Frankrig, ca. 50 km fra Atlanterhavskysten.
Nantes var hovedstaden i det uafhængige hertugdømme Bretagne tilbage i middelalderen, og byen blev en central handelshavn i det 18. århundrede, takket være dens strategiske beliggenhed ved floderne Loire, Erdre og Sevre.