Johnny, Pierre & le Général Cambronne à Nantes...
Episode 22 : Johnny Hallyday se promène cours Cambronne à Nantes.
Cet épisode est dédié à Pierre Demolliens.
La petite histoire de Pierre Cambronne
Aujourd’hui, je vais vous parler de Pierre Cambronne général d’empire, un homme qui est rentré dans l’histoire de manière assez impromptue car c’est un gros mot de 5 lettres, qu’il aurait prononcé en juin 1815, qui forgea sa légende. Nous sommes à Waterloo morne plaine, Cambronne est à la tête de la garde impériale. Et aux Anglais sommant les derniers carrés de soldats français de se rendre, il aurait répondu « La garde meurt mais jamais ne se rend ! » et devant l’insistance de l’ennemi il aurait rajouté : « Merde »
Toute sa vie il niera avoir tenu ces deux propos. Et pourtant ils lui sont à jamais associés. Dans Les Misérables, Victor Hugo y fait référence, et plus tard Sacha Guitry écrira même une pièce intitulée « Le mot de Cambronne ». L’anecdote prend des proportions phénoménales, alors qu’aujourd’hui encore personne ne peut vraiment affirmer que Cambronne ait prononcé ces mots.
En revanche ce que moi je peux vous confirmer c’est que Cambronne était un homme de cœur. Né à Nantes en 1770 dans l’une des maisons du pont de Belle-Croix, il est fils de petit commerçant, il fait ses études à l’Oratoire de Nantes où il reçoit une éducation religieuse. Mais ce sont les armes qui l’ont toujours séduit. Il s’engage très tôt dans l’armée républicaine, à seulement 22 ans.
Sauf qu’à 22 ans, on fait des bêtises. Certains volent des voitures, d’autres se retrouvent chroniqueurs ici. Complètement ivre, il frappe un officier et sera condamné à mort. Heureusement, son colonel de régiment, conscient des qualités militaires de Cambronne, lui sauve la mise.
Il part alors du principe que chacun mérite une seconde chance. Et son statue d’officier lui permettra de sauver plus d’une fois la vie de ses ennemis, en relâchant parfois des anciens camarades de L’Oratoire, en donnant ses rations de pain à des habitants de village assiégé. Une fois même, il a hébergé chez sa mère à Saint Sébastien près de Nantes un curé royaliste poursuivi par la justice républicaine.
Après Waterloo, notre homme de cœur, emprisonné en Angleterre, fait comme l’opportuniste de Jacques Dutronc il, Il, « retourne sa veste ». Et oui, Cambronne servira Louis XVIII sous la Restauration. Ce qu’il a peut être regretté lorsqu’il apprendra que Napoléon Bonaparte lui avait légué 100 000 francs dans son testament.
Pour l’anecdote : le bonnet à poil d’ours des Grenadier Guards britanniques est emprunté aux grenadiers à pieds de la Garde impériale de Napoléon 1er, vaincus à Waterloo. Cambronne commandait alors le 2e bataillon du 1er Chasseurs
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Places to see in ( Nantes - France ) Place Graslin
Places to see in ( Nantes - France ) Place Graslin
The Place Graslin is one of the main squares in the city center of Nantes , in France , of which the most significant monument is the Graslin Theater. Place Graslin is shaped like a rectangle attached to a semicircle whose flare is oriented towards the South. It is served by eight arteries: the streets Crebillon , Moliere , Corneille , Racine , Voltaire , Piron , Regnard and Jean-Jacques-Rousseau .
The square is mostly paved and pedestrianized , except the west side serving the streets Racine and Piron (the beginning of the street Voltaire is also pedestrianized) which are open to traffic. On its north side is the Graslin Theater ; south of the square is La Cigale brewery .
While the place is still a project, the city office decided, September 22, 1780, that the new esplanade should receive the name of Place Graslin, in tribute to the promoter. Mathurin Crucy seems to be the only one to have proposed the name of Place de la Comédie
From 1777, Jean-Joseph-Louis Graslin , receiver general of the farms of the kingdom, buys vast lands to the West of the city, on what was until then only a sparsely populated rocky hill. He decides to realize a real estate transaction. The municipality of Nantes, then led by Jean-Baptiste Gellée de Prémion , being reluctant, Graslin won his adhesion by donating to the city land necessary for streets and squares, by taking charge of the necessary leveling works, and by lending to low rate of interest to the community money for road works.
La Cigale , a famous art nouveau brasserie , facing the theater, is inaugurated on1 st April 1895. It is the work of the ceramic architect Nantes Émile Libaudière and was listed as a historic monument in 1964. In n o 2, the angle occupant building between Voltaire and Racine streets hosted a hotel garni second prestigious building that Graslin was able to locate the place (after theater) 8 . Named first Hotel Henri IV, the former name of the course Cambronne neighbor, he was then called the Hotel de France (not to be confused with the hotel of the same name who succeeded him at n o 24 from the rue Crébillon) 9 . Arthur Young , in 1787, notes I doubt that there is in Europe more beautiful inn than the Henri-IV hotel, and Stendhal , in 1837, considers that it isA beautiful hotel.
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Nantes | Wikipedia audio article
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Nantes
00:02:22 1 Etymology
00:04:01 1.1 Modern pronunciation and nicknames
00:05:01 2 History
00:05:09 2.1 Prehistory and antiquity
00:07:19 2.2 Middle Ages
00:10:02 2.3 Modern era
00:13:03 2.4 French Revolution
00:15:21 2.5 Industries
00:18:05 2.6 Land reclamation
00:21:19 3 Geography
00:21:28 3.1 Location
00:22:44 3.2 Hydrology
00:24:30 3.3 Geology
00:25:52 3.4 Climate
00:26:55 3.5 Urban layout
00:29:40 3.6 Parks and environment
00:30:56 4 Governance
00:31:05 4.1 Local government
00:33:49 4.2 Heraldry
00:35:28 4.3 Nantes and Brittany
00:38:15 4.4 Twinning
00:39:20 5 Demographics
00:42:33 5.1 Ethnicity, religions and languages
00:45:38 6 Economy
00:49:36 7 Architecture
00:54:32 8 Culture
00:54:40 8.1 Museums
00:56:46 8.2 Venues
00:58:22 8.3 Events and festivals
01:00:55 8.4 In the arts
01:03:39 8.5 Cuisine
01:05:23 9 Education
01:07:21 10 Sport
01:09:34 11 Transport
01:13:27 11.1 Nantes Public Transportation Statistics
01:14:06 12 Media
01:16:41 13 Notable residents
01:17:55 14 See also
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Nantes ([nɑ̃t] (listen)) (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt (pronounced [nɑ̃t] or [nɑ̃ːt]); Breton: Naoned (pronounced [ˈnɑ̃wnət])) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, 50 km (31 mi) from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth-largest in France, with a population of 303,382 in Nantes and a metropolitan area of nearly 950,000 inhabitants. With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms the main north-western French metropolis.
It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire région, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial.
Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after the 1532 union of Brittany and France. During the 17th century, after the establishment of the French colonial empire, Nantes gradually became the largest port in France and was responsible for nearly half of the 18th-century French Atlantic slave trade. The French Revolution resulted in an economic decline, but Nantes developed robust industries after 1850 (chiefly in shipbuilding and food processing). Deindustrialisation in the second half of the 20th century spurred the city to adopt a service economy.
In 2012, the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ranked Nantes as a Gamma world city. It is the fourth-highest-ranking city in France, after Paris, Lyon and Marseille. The Gamma category includes cities such as Algiers, Orlando, Porto, Turin and Leipzig. Nantes has been praised for its quality of life, and it received the European Green Capital Award in 2013. The European Commission noted the city's efforts to reduce air pollution and CO2 emissions, its high-quality and well-managed public transport system and its biodiversity, with 3,366 hectares (8,320 acres) of green space and several protected Natura 2000 areas.