Una coppia si staglia contro il verde Loch stand Loch guardando e puntando verso il basso a Place Saint-Sauveur nel quartiere Saint-Goustan di Auray, Morbihan, Bretagna meridionale, Francia, fiancheggiata da ristoranti e caffè marciapiede con tende colorate e ombrelloni. Saint-Goustan, un tempo un porto di pesca e commerciale, è ora una popolare destinazione turistica che onora una visita del 1776 da parte del padre fondatore degli Stati Uniti, Benjamin Franklin.
4256 x 2832 px | 36 x 24 cm | 14,2 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
26 giugno 2011
Ubicazione:
Auray, Morbihan, southern Brittany, France.
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Auray, Morbihan, southern Brittany, France: the Saint-Goustan district of this inland Breton town between Lorient and Vannes, once based around a busy commercial port on the River Loch or Loc'h, is now a popular tourist destination, with restaurants and pavement cafes trading from its well-restored medieval buildings. In this view from across the river, framed by trees flanking the Promenade du Loch belvedere, a couple stand silhouetted against the green river water as they point down towards the Place Saint-Sauveur quayside with its colourful awnings and sun umbrellas shading tables for al fresco diners. Auray is said to be the last place reached by Julius Caesar on his conquest of Gaul. Its later history is bloody. The Battle of Auray, on Michaelmas Day 1364, ended the Breton War of Succession, witnessed the defeat and death of Charles de Blois and secured the dukedom of Brittany for young Jean de Montfort, later son-in-law to King Edward III of England. In 1795, following the 1789 French Revolution, royalist counter-revolutionaries known as Chouans were transferred to Auray as captives. After a summary trial, a military commission of Auray citizens condemned them to death; 750 of them were shot and buried in a meadow now called the Champ des Martyrs or Martyrs' Field. In December 1776, Saint Goustan was also involved - tangentially - in the American Revolutionary War or War of Independence against the British. Statesman, scientist, inventor and writer Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), a Founding Father of the United States, was forced by bad weather to land on the quayside while trying to reach Nantes to ask Louis XVI for military aid. In this image, the wharf to the right of the Place St.-Sauveur is now named the Quai Franklin, and his visit is also commemorated by an early-19th century plaque. D1210.B4452
