...of France and the French. I have selected the following passage about les Machines de l'Ile : "In Nantes they have a 45-foot-high, 25-foot-wide mechanical wood and metal elephant. Like some clockwork creation ( un mécanisme sorti d'un roman de ...) from a nineteenth-century Jules Verne novel, this...

  Here's a a great artist you could see in the streets of Nantes and Angers. This British opera-singer is a contralto who plays Olga in Tchaikovski's Eugen Onegin . Her voice is exceptionally rich in tone and colour, her acting is perfect, mobile and sensuous. No wonder she has such a fast-rising...

...Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles> <![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--> One French engraver, born in Nantes, is almost better known in the British Isles than he is in France : his name is J.E. Laboureur (1877 - 1943).   Although little interested in the army, he was recruited by the...