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BREST, City, France

brĕst, city (1990 pop. 153,099), Finistère dept., NW France, on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a commercial port, an important naval station, and the seat of the French Naval Academy. There is a national engineering school in Brest and nearby is the Oceanographic Center of Brittany. Electronics equipment, metals, paper, and clothing are the chief manufactures. The city dates from Gallo-Roman times. The spacious, landlocked harbor was created in 1631 by Cardinal Richelieu as a military base and arsenal. In 1683, during the reign of Louis XIV, Marshal Vauban built the ramparts and a castle. The French repulsed the English in 1694 off Brest; in 1794 the English, under Lord Howe, defeated the French fleet. During World War II the Germans had a huge submarine base at Brest. Their heavily fortified submarine pens showed few cracks under Allied air raids; but the city itself was almost completely destroyed. The German garrison capitulated to U.S. troops in 1944.

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Understanding A Tale of Two Cities: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Book by George Newlin; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects:	Dickens, Charles--1812-1870--Tale Of Two Cities--Sources, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Literature And The Revolution
...street, his head paraded on a pike. All France, "as National Guards, to suppress Brigands...thereupon and National Oath, which flies over France. General "Federation," or mutual Oath...Mutinous Swiss sent to the Galleys at Brest; solemn Funeral-service for the slain...

Politics and Theater: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830
Book by Sheryl Kroen; University of California Press, 2000
Subjects:	Democracy--France--History--19th Century, France--History--July Revolution, 1830--Theater And The Revolution, France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830--Political Aspects, Legitimacy Of Governments--France, Monarchy--France--History--19th Century
...In the fall of 1819 the city of Brest became the scene of a public...preaching in the town of Brest, were finally sent away...anticlerical protesters in Brest, tactics that would become...missionaries throughout France during the Restoration...

A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France
Book by Roger Price; Holmes & Meier, 1987
Subjects:	France--Social Conditions--19th Century
...limited to the Nord, Normandy, upper Alsace, the Nantes area, Lyon region, Mediterranean coast and Paris. The big city Brest, Nantes, St-Nazaire, Rouen, Le Havre, Lyon, Limoges, Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris and its suburbs was the typical...

Retreat to the Reich: The German Defeat in France, 1944
Book by Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.; Praeger, 2000
Subjects:	Germany--Armed Forces--History--20th Century, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France
...trying to retreat into Brest with the rest of his men...reached the outskirts of the city of Brest on August 7 but could not...advance, slipped into Brest from the south on August...advanced of any fortress in France. In addition, the nearby...

Cultural Policy and Socialist France
Book by David Wachtel; Greenwood Press, 1987
Subjects:	France--Cultural Policy, France--Intellectual Life--20th Century, France--Politics And Government--1981-1995, Politics And Culture--France--History--20th Century, Socialism--France--History--20th Century
...politicized than in the city of Nantes. After being...available theaters for the city, and attacking "elitist...attract top artists to the city. As the socialist-oriented...municipalities throughout France. In Brest, where a situation of...

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Echoes from Kerizinen: Pilgrimage, Narrative, and the Construction of Sacred History at a Marian Shrine in Northwestern France./Echos De Kerizinen: Pelerinage, Narration et Construction De L'histoire Sacree D'un Sanctuaire Marial Dans l'Ouest De la France
Journal article by Ellen Badone; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects:	Discourse analysis--Usage, France--Buildings and facilities, France--Religious aspects, Narratives--Comparative analysis, Pilgrimages--Comparative analysis, Pilgrims and pilgrimages--Comparative analysis, Ramonet, Jeanne-Louise--Religious aspects, Shrines--Design and construction, Shrines--History
...Shrine in Northwestern France./Echos De Kerizinen...Dans lOuest De la France. by Ellen Badone...of the Breton port city of Brest, Kerizinen is the...Paris and Breton cities, there maybe 300...hospitalizations in Brest and helped to care...parish throughout France in the 1940s. Apparently...

Nuns and Nurses: Debates on New Nursing Programs and Improving the Training of "secondary Hospital Personnel" in France, 1890-1910
Journal article by Daniel Hickey; Nursing History Review, Vol. 17, 2009
Subjects:	Education, Health care, Hospital systems, Interest groups, Meetings, Nursing, Patients, Politics, Recruitment, Religion, Religious congregations, Religious orders, Schools
...identical program on all the cities of France. Instead a model should...detail: Le Havre, a port city at the mouth of the Seine...century. In 1879 the city had a population of 100...annual grants from the city to aid in paying expenses...along with a doctor from Brest visited and studied hospital...

Class and Identity on the Margins of Industrial Society: a Breton Illustration
Journal article by Charles R. Menzies; Anthropologica, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects:	Community development, Fishing industry, France, Globalization, History
...histoire, Quireper, France: Patrimoine Maritime...Memoire de maitrise, Brest: Universite de Bretagne...Memoire de maitrise, Brest: Universite de Bretagne...Contact in Rural France during the Nineteenth...politiques et realites, Brest, France: Ifremer. Palmer...

A Little Tour through the Land of Alain-fournier
Journal article by John Taylor; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 39, 2000
Subjects:	Fournier, Henri-Alban (Alain-Fournier) (1886-1914), France, Literature, Roads & highways, Tourism, Travel, Writers
...this point, at the Vierzon city limits, the traffic piles up...indicate hick towns buried in la France profonde. Yet lovers of literature...paint the landscapes of central France but also provides a moving literary...1901), a student at the Brest naval high school (1901-1902...

French Colonial and Post-Colonial Hybridity: Condition Metisse
Journal article by Dina Sherzer; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 28, 1998
Subjects:	Colonization--Social aspects, Ethnicity--France, France--Social aspects, Group identity--Social aspects, Social identity--Social aspects
...represented in contemporary France? How are hybrid...French people in Brest in the 1950s accepting...occurrences in contemporary France. In En famille NDiaye...apartment in the city to her grandmothers...Lyon and other cities. 5. See Michel...construction of Otherness in France over the years in...

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The Other D-day: the Invasion of Southern France
Magazine article by Earl Burton; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, September 2004
...the free soil of France. (True, certain...to crack. As in Brest, Lorient and other...greatest Naval base in France, was the Island...ground ringing the city. The battle with...Marseilles, second city of France and her first seaport...

Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945-1975
Magazine article by H.J. Kaplan; The National Interest, Winter 1998
Subjects:	Books--Reviews
...from the countryside to the cities, which by 1975 had absorbed...his book, the heavily rural France we had discovered during and...World War II - the Vieille France of Roger Martin du Gard, of...Modernizing the Provincial City. Granting all this, it is...little attention was paid in France and elsewhere to a transformation...

Pursuits & Retreats - Travel: Storm Island - If You like Extreme Weather, the French Island of Ouessant Is a Good Place to Find It
Magazine article by William Langewiesche; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, December 2001
Subjects:	Ouessant, France--Description and travel, Shipwrecks--Personal narratives, Storms--Personal narratives
...shapes the west coast of France into a ships prow pushing...passenger ferry from the port city of Brest. The island, four miles...ferry, which departs from Brest at 8:30 A.M. but suspends...French coast. I called France from a pay phone in a cafe...

The French Referendum
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 287, July 2005
Subjects:	European Union--Membership, France--Membership, France--Political aspects, Referendum--Forecasts and trends, Referendums--Forecasts and trends
...been their last sight of France if the weather had been...Queen of Scots, left France (in 1561) where she...in their blockade of Brest and Nantes, month after...that it is an European city and its inhabitants European...matter. Certainly in France it was an educated decision...

A Calculated Risk at a Very High Price
Magazine article by Raymond E. Bell; Army, Vol. 61, January 2011
Subjects:	Armed forces, Divisions
...liberate the German-held harbor city of Brest, France, in September 1944. By September...the collapse of the Wehrmacht in France, into the late fall the Allies...been in place since arriving from Brest. The 2nd Infantry Division had...

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Here Oui Go; FRANCE HAS FAR MORE TO OFFER THAN JUST FAB FOOD AND WINE 5 PAGES OF HOLIDAY IDEAS EDITED BY IAIN MAYHEW
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), July 1, 2006
...worlds most romantic cities and in summer, when...worth a visit are: BREST: The old seafaring town of Brest is on the Brittany...westernmost tip of France. Used as a German...consequently heavily bombed - Brest is still a huge (French...

Nantes So Fine; SECOND TO GUIDE NANTES, FRANCE
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), July 11, 2010
Subjects:	Verne, Jules
...SECOND TO GUIDE NANTES, FRANCE. Byline: BRIDGET MCGROUTHER...sail on the Nantes-Brest canal; enjoy the Estuary...emblematic green lung of the city since 1688. nights...FlyBe from Gatwick and Air France from London City. Indirect flights available...

Holidaying in France? Let the Experts Guide You; GET THE BEST FROM YOUR BREAK: Specialist Firms Can Arrange Any Type of French Holiday, from a Trip to Provence to Skiing in the Alps
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 13, 2008
Holidaying in France? Let the Experts Guide...the Alps. IN MANY ways France is the perfect destination...great countryside, fine cities and lots of extraordinary...French airports from Brest, Dinard andNantes in...to Paris and Lille, France has never been easier...gite or chateau, a city break, a wine touror...

Holiday HOT SPOTS: LITTLE BRITANY; Go with the Flow in Laid-Back France
Newspaper article; The People (London, England), April 29, 2007
...the Flow in Laid-Back France. Byline: By HENRY AUSTIN...Brittany in northern France is an ideal place for...these days. I flew to Brest with Ryanair but you can...is a great place for a city walk. Dont leave without...Ryanair from Luton to Brest from pounds 10 one way...

Onward to France, Christian Soldier; (1)Overseas (2) First-Time Buyer Special (3)Unable to Afford Birmingham, a Salvation Army Captain and Her Family Invested in Brittany
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 28, 2007
Subjects:	Home buying, House buying, Salvation Army, Soldiers
Onward to France, Christian Soldier...prices in their native city of Birmingham have risen...days drive away - in France. I wouldnt want to buy...airports at Dinard and Brest. We cant afford to fly...main aim of buying in France was to have a house to...

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Brest , City, France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BREST , city, France brest, city (1990 pop. 153,099), Finistere dept., NW France, on an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a commercial port, an...

France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...important industrial cities are, in the northeast...Other important cities are Orleans , Tours , Troyes , and Arles . France has an extensive...several other French cities, as well as Belgium...Havre , Cherbourg , Brest , Saint-Nazaire...Revolution of 1789, France has had an extremely...

Trotsky, Leon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...propaganda. Expelled from France, he moved (Jan., 1917) to New York City, where he edited, with...powers. In the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Feb., 1918...was allowed to move to France, and in 1935 he found...in a suburb of Mexico City. There, on Aug. 20...

Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Alliance and Triple Entente ) of England, France, and Russia. War and Revolution The...I by signing the humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Mar., 1918), under which...parliamentary system similar to that of France. In legislative elections at the same...

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