Collection(s) : Routes of discovery
Paru le 25/09/2000 | Cartonné 127 pages
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photographs Bertrand Demée, Éric Cattin | translation Angela Moyon
Ille-et-Vilaine, alphabetically the thirty-fifth département in France, occupies an unusual position within Brittany, forming a lynch pin between Western Brittany, Normandy and the Pays de Loire area. Its main city, Rennes, is a major university town and the regional capital. With a population of 870,000 it is the largest of the Breton départements and the second largest département in Western France. Ille-et-Vilaine combines a wide range of landscapes, a wonderful blend of well-preserved natural environments and economic or cultural dynamism. With well-controlled urban development, fields, lakes, moors and woodlands provide an outstanding lifestyle. Its coastline is a window onto the open sea. It is true that the coast is not as long here as it is in neighbouring départements but it provides striking contrasts. Saint-Malo, Dinard and Cancale are still the stuff that dreams are made of... With its well-established agricultural background, Ille-et-Vilaine can look forward to the third industrial revolution with equanimity. An intense, eclectic culture drawing on tradition and modernity makes this a dynamic area in which to live, in any season of the year.
E. Cattin
B. Demée
Eric Cattin and Bertrand Demée are freelance photographers specialising in documentaries and illustrations (books and magazine articles).
A.-F. Lesacher
J.-Y. Lefevre
Alain-François Lesacher, a historian and headmaster of a junior high school, is a « county » councillor with special responsibility for cultural affairs.
Jean-Yves Lefèvre, a historian, has focussed his research on the history of the département of Ille-et-Vilaine where he was born and brought up.
