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00:00 Is the city of Nantes Bretonne?
00:02 We won't risk giving a definitive answer to this question,
00:06 but there is no doubt that Nantes was Bretonne.
00:09 It was even the capital of Brittany,
00:11 even if the city became the capital of the Atlantic Loire,
00:14 then today, its own department and its own region, the Loire countries.
00:19 The split will occur during the interwar period,
00:22 when the idea of grouping departments into administrative regions
00:25 will make its way into French administration.
00:28 This will be first realized by Marshal Pétain
00:32 under the government of Vichy on April 19, 1941.
00:35 The map of France is then divided into 17 regions,
00:39 grouped around prefectures.
00:41 Nantes and the Lower Loire are separated from Brittany,
00:44 even though Pétain was favorable,
00:46 on the contrary, by nostalgia for the provinces of the old regime.
00:49 If this decree was canceled at the fall of the Vichy regime,
00:53 the rest of the story does not manage to define the two entities.
00:56 (upbeat music)