The Loire and Atlantic trade - 17th-19th centuries

This is exactly what the various contributions of this volume are set on finding out, on the one hand by looking at the contributions made by these regions' inhabitants to shaping the Atlantic world and, on the other, by studying the impacts of such growing transatlantic trade on the Loire Valley.   

Atlantic influences are obviously not limited to the coastline and ports, since these are interfaces - i.e. zones in contact with different areas. The Loire – the longest navigable river in France – was thus used as a means of communication, linking up people, goods and ideas. 

Cahier des Anneaux de la Mémoire n°16  

Annexes - Exhibition on the banks of the Loire on Ile de la Tortue 

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