Vista dalla Promenade du Loch belvedere sulle acque verdi del fiume Loch di Place Saint-Sauveur e il molo di Saint-Goustan a Auray, Morbihan, Bretagna meridionale, Francia. Saint-Goustan, un tempo un trafficato porto per la pesca e il commercio, è ora una popolare area turistica con antichi edifici restaurati che ospitano ristoranti, creperie e caffè sul marciapiede che offrono cene all'aperto sotto tende colorate e ombrelloni.
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: venerable restored stone and timber framed buildings, once part of the Saint-Goustan commercial port district of this inland Breton town between Lorient and Vannes, now house restaurants, creperies and pavement cafes catering for increasing numbers of tourists visiting the attractive quayside along the River Loch or Loc'h. In this view captured from the Promenade du Loch belvedere on the other side of the river, pedestrians stroll across the paved Place Saint-Sauveur in front of 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 Quai Franklin, and his visit is also commemorated by an early-19th century plaque. D1211.B4458
