The partisans of Brittany had been left to five departments, all to their failure. On December 18, 2018, the Loire-Atlantique departmental council voted against its Breton attachment, but asked the state to organize a referendum on the subject. Without success. “ Paradoxically, it invigorated us. It is nevertheless 105,000 voters who supported by paper petition the organization of a referendum ", reports Florian Le Teuff, 40, who became an unpublished assistant to" Breton issues "at the City of Nantes at the beginning of July. “ It shows that the political context is changing. A taboo is being broken in Nantes ”, wants to believe this activist associative of Brittany united.
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The city of the Dukes of Brittany, nickname inherited from the 10th century, has been the capital of the new Pays de la Loire region since 1956, after its detachment from Brittany in 1919 (Clémentel arrested) and, above all, in 1941 (Pétain decree ). “ It is not just reunification but a real territorial project of general interest that we are preparing.
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