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Stade Nantais
Stade nantais, also called Stade nantais rugby, is a semi-professional rugby union team based in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. They compete in the Fédérale 1, France's fifth tier. History Stade nantais université club The organization was formed in 1907 as Stade nantais université club (SNUC), from the amalgamation of two earlier clubs: Sporting club universitaire nantais (SCUN) and the Couëron-based Rugby club de Basse-Indre. The Stade nantais name can be traced to a turn-of-the-century high school club team that pioneered rugby union in Nantes, and whose members had scattered to SCUN and RC Basse-Indre. Right off the bat, the SNUC benefited from the involvement of star player :fr:Pascal Laporte, who had relocated to Nantes to oversee a company that imported coal from Wales, following a highly successful career with Stade bordelais. The Laporte connection further paid off in 1910, with the signing of Welsh fly-half Percy Bush, one of finest players of the game's pionee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nantes
Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabitants (2018). With Saint-Nazaire, a seaport on the Loire estuary, Nantes forms one of the main north-western French metropolitan agglomerations. It is the administrative seat of the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region, one of 18 regions of France. Nantes belongs historically and culturally to Brittany, a former duchy and province, and its omission from the modern administrative region of Brittany is controversial. Nantes was identified during classical antiquity as a port on the Loire. It was the seat of a bishopric at the end of the Roman era before it was conquered by the Bretons in 851. Although Nantes was the primary residence of the 15th-century dukes of Brittany, Rennes became the provincial capital after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
