Le Croisic
Le Croisic
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| Coordinates: 47°17′38″N 2°30′33″W / 47.2939°N 2.5092°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Department | Loire-Atlantique |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Nazaire |
| Canton | La Baule-Escoublac |
| Intercommunality | CA Presqu'île de Guérande Atlantique |
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| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Michèle Quellard[1] |
| Area 1 | 4.5 km2 (1.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[2] | 4,107 |
| • Density | 910/km2 (2,400/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 44049 /44490 |
| Elevation | 0–20 m (0–66 ft) (avg. 5 m or 16 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Croisic (French pronunciation: [lə kʁwazik] ⓘ; Breton: Ar Groazig; Gallo: Le Croèzic) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department, western France. It is part of the urban area of Saint-Nazaire.[3]
History
In the autumn of 1583, while the Catholic Church in Ireland was illegal and underground, Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley arranged for a sea captain to smuggle him into Ireland from Le Croisic and drop him upon Holmpatrick Strand in Skerries, County Dublin.[4] Archbishop O'Hurley, who later became one of the most celebrated of the 24 Irish Catholic Martyrs, was met at Skerries by a priest named Fr. John Dillon, who accompanied him to Drogheda.[4]
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Legend
In a medieval French legend recounted during the funeral of Anne of Brittany in 1514, Le Croisic was the scene of a story which explained the origin of the use of ermine in heraldry. In the story, Anne's supposed ancestor Innogen, the daughter of Greek king Pandrasus and wife of Brutus of Troy from Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-history Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136), was attending a hunt at Le Croisic, when a stoat being pursued by Brutus' dogs took refuge with her. Innogen saved and fed it, and adopted it for ordre et armes ('order and arms').[7]
Population
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See also
- La Baule - Guérande Peninsula
- Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department
- Ferdinand du Puigaudeau
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Unité urbaine 2020 de Saint-Nazaire (44601), INSEE
- ^ a b Patrick J. Cornish; Benignus Millet, eds. (2005). The Irish Martyrs. Dublin: Four Courts Press. pp. 67–69.
- ^ Van Wyen, Adrian O. (1969). Naval Aviation in World War I. Washington, D.C.: Chief of Naval Operations. p. 45.
- ^ WWII's Greatest Raids - Commando Do or Die
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- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Croisic, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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