Discover here all that Monsieur de France tells or presents in connection with the Pays de la Loire region. This region includes the departments of Loire-Attlantique, Vendée, Mayenne, Sarthe and Maine-et-Loire. Cities like Nantes, Angers, Le Mans, Laval, La Roche sur Yon but also big tourist cities like La Baule, Pornichet, Saint Jean de Mont, or charming villages like Sainte Suzanne in Mayenne...
It's one of France's 101 départements, and perhaps the most typical, with its towns rich in history and, above all, its many small villages. Postcard villages with churches, town halls, cafés and lanes that lead you through dazzling green countryside. The Mayenne is also the magnificent river that gives it its name and crosses it from top to bottom. It's the perfect destination if you want to spend some time in the countryside and get a taste of a France that's less touristy but so much more authentic...
French destinies
Pays de la Loire
Jules VERNE ? the French inventor of "science fiction
Jérôme Prod'homme
He is perhaps the most translated French author in the world. His stories are known all over the world. From "5 weeks in a balloon" to "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the world in 80 days", he inspired dozens of films or series and part of the universe of Disneyland Paris. Jules Verne is one of the inventors of Science Fiction, he imagined machines more than 20 years before they really appeared...
There is the politician, there is the journalist, the man of the words of humor and there is especially the man of the Great War. The man who won the Victory in 1918. Georges Clémenceau, nicknamed "the tiger", is the story of a French destiny born in the West, in a land of convictions: the Vendée.
If freedom of conscience is guaranteed by law in France, it is because a long road has been travelled. It began, at least in part, in April 1598 with the promulgation, by King Henry IV, of the Edict of Nantes. This was a first, since it guaranteed freedom of conscience to Protestants, albeit under certain conditions. For the first time, two religions coexisted, at least partially, in France.
Nantes is a link. A meeting between Brittany and Pays de la Loire, between past and future, between culture and city, between land and sea, Loire and Ocean
