The Land of Briord Blog

De janvier à mai 1794, les douze colonnes infernales du général Turreau ravagent la Vendée et ses bordures. Le château de Bri...

More than two hundred châteaux and manor houses are scattered across present-day Loire-Atlantique. Eighteenth-century Nantes foli...

Four armies fought over the bridge on the Acheneau in twenty months. From Beysser's first gun on 20 April 1793 to La Cathelinière...

Some thirty houses scattered around Nantes bear the strange name of folies. Built in the eighteenth century by the merchants and s...

On the far side of the main avenue, facing the chapel, the chaplain's house at Briord stands on the site of an oratory raised in t...

From cloth merchant's son in Vitré to Treasurer General of Brittany: how Pierre Landais acquired Briord in 1469, fortified it, an...

In the declaration of 1478, Pierre Landais lists six métairies at Briord. Under the Charette in the eighteenth century, La Berthe...

From 1225 to 1949, the Terre de Briord passed through eight families of owners: Rezay, Labbé, Landais, L'Épervier, Rouxières, L...

Joseph and his cousins. From the end of the 14th century, the probable date of its establishment in the county of Nantes, until...