| Now when Eastertide was come, a great tournament was proclaimed to be held beyond the walls of Nantes, that rich city. |
| In the swamps of Niort six hundred children of Nantes were rounded up, massacred, and atrociously mutilated. |
| In 1577 he secured the treaty of Bergerac, which foreshadowed the edict of Nantes. |
| After France's loss of her colonial empire the merchants of Nantes and Bordeaux sank their capital in the arable land and vineyards of the hinterland. |
| For this service he was promoted in rank, and received a gift of the castle and isle of Indre, near Nantes. |
| Equitan was King of Nantes, in Brittany, and led the life of a pleasure-seeker. |
