Special Envoy at Nantes
Stendhal did not know the Nantes he wrote on Memoirs of a tourist“The happiness of Nantes is that fashion is good enough to admit beautiful stone houses of three stories, more or less equal; nothing is more beautiful… “. The reason is that since 1837, the day he stayed here, the city of Anne de Bretagne has thickened to the point where it sometimes looks fat, surrounded by delusional and messy urban development.
A reflection of the success that attractive Nantes is paying dearly for. Beginning, perhaps, with the abandonment of one’s own identity in favor of a cultural muddle from elsewhere. A festive program that sets the city on fire and gives pride of place to acclaimed acts without necessarily being tied to the local DNA. “It can happen anywhere, and it’s the same with urban planning; we bet on the big names in architecture whose achievements in Nantes could have been realized elsewhere than Nantes.“, storms the watercolorist…
Source: Le Figaro
