Côte De Jade
The Jade Coast ( ) constitutes the coastal fringe of the Pays de Retz in Loire-Atlantique, extending from the Loire estuary in the north to the Marais breton in the south, thus bordering the Bay of Bourgneuf on its southern part. Its jagged coasts and its numerous beaches are of summer tourist interest. Description There is a notable disparity between the coasts north and south of Pointe Saint-Gildas. To the north, from Mindin ( Saint-Brevin-les-Pins) to Cormier ( La Plaine-sur-Mer) stretch long fine sandy beaches with vast foreshores, bordered by pine-wooded dunes or low cliffs. To the south, from La Plaine-sur-Mer to La Bernerie-en-Retz, the coast is wilder and presents a succession of coves and more or less reduced beaches, separated by rocky areas with larger schist cliffs. These then fade into the mudflats, salt marshes and polders of the around Les Moutiers-en-Retz. Development Tourism in the Pays de Retz developed from the late 17th century with the fashion fo ...
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Riviera
() is an Italian word which means , ultimately derived from Latin , through Ligurian . It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of Liguria (the Genoa region in northwestern Italy) in the form , then shortened in English. Riviera may also refer to: Africa * Kalk Bay Riviera (''Riviera Kalk Bay'' or ''Coasta Kalk''), to the west of Cape Town, South Africa * Red Sea Riviera, the eastern shore of Egypt North America Mexico * Riviera Maya, the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula * Mexican Riviera, the southwestern coast of Mexico, including Acapulco * Riviera Nayarit, another part of Pacific coast of Mexico United States * California Riviera, Santa Barbara, California * Florida Riviera, Fort Lauderdale, Florida * Florida Riviera, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida * Irish Riviera, Scituate, Massachusetts * the Hollywood Riviera region of Los Angeles, known for its coastal location where Hollywood elite would retreat to in the 1920’s. Asia *Bengali Riviera, coastal r ...
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La Plaine-sur-Mer
La Plaine-sur-Mer (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Seaside Resorts In France
A seaside is the marine coast of a sea. Seaside may also refer to: Places Canada * Seaside Park, British Columbia, also known as Seaside * Sea Side, New Brunswick, a community in Durham Parish United Kingdom * A coastal area in central Scotland; see * Seaside, Carmarthenshire, a List of places along Wales Coast Path#Carmarthenshire Coast section, settlement on the Carmarthenshire coast of Wales United States * Seaside, California * Seaside, Florida * Seaside, Oregon * Seaside, Queens, a section of Rockaway Beach in New York City * Seaside Heights, New Jersey * Seaside Park, New Jersey Transport * Kanazawa Seaside Line, or simply Seaside, a people mover line in Yokohama, Japan *Seaside station (LIRR Montauk Line), a former name of the Babylon LIRR station in Babylon, New York *Seaside station (LIRR Rockaway Beach), the original name for the IND Rockaway Line in Queens, New York Music * Seaside (Liane Carroll album), ''Seaside'' (Liane Carroll album), a 2015 jazz album by Liane ...
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Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer
Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer (; ), officially Sainte-Marie, is a former Communes of France, commune in the Pays de Retz, situated in the Loire-Atlantique ''Departments of France, département'' and in the France, French Regions of France, région of Pays de la Loire. From 1973, it was absorbed by the neighbouring commune of Pornic and from 1 July 2007 it became a subdivision of this commune. The commune forms a part of Brittany, in the Pays (France), traditional county of Retz and in the historical Nantes, Pays Nantais. The inhabitants of Sainte-Marie are known as the ''Sanmaritains'' and ''Sanmaritaines''. Geography Sainte-Marie-sur-Mer is a market town on the Côte de Jade, with a jagged coastline strewn with coves. History At one time, during the French First Republic, Sainte-Marie was known as ''Roche-Peltier''. The commune of Sainte-Marie was attached to that of Pornic on 1 June 1973 (under the terms of the Marcelin law of 16 July 1971). On 16 May 2006 the Sanmaritains voted for ...
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Préfailles
Préfailles (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Population See also *Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department The following is a list of the 207 communes of the Loire-Atlantique department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):

Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef
Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef (; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Its inhabitants, known as Michelois, numbered 5,173 at the 2018 census. The commune of Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef includes the seaside resort of Tharon-Plage and is also known as the home of the Biscuiterie Saint-Michel, which produces the "galette Saint-Michel" among many other products. Though the original factory lies in the territory of the town, the headquarters have been delocalized in Contres, France Geography The commune is part of historical Brittany, in the traditional country of the pays de Retz. Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef is located on the Côte de Jade, 17 km south of Saint-Nazaire and 50 km west of Nantes, at the western end of the pays de Retz. It lies 8 km north of Pornic, the main city of the community of communes (Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz) to which the town belongs. Three coastal rivers flows within the communal territory: the ''Calais'', the ''Berno ...
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Littoral StBrevin
The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore. In coastal ecology, the littoral zone includes the intertidal zone extending from the high water mark (which is rarely inundated), to coastal areas that are permanently submerged — known as the ''foreshore'' — and the terms are often used interchangeably. However, the geographical meaning of ''littoral zone'' extends well beyond the intertidal zone to include all neritic waters within the bounds of continental shelves. Etymology The word ''littoral'' may be used both as a noun and as an adjective. It derives from the Latin noun ''litus, litoris'', meaning "shore". (The doubled ''t'' is a late-medieval innovation, and the word is sometimes seen in the more classical-looking spelling ''litoral''.) Description The term has no single definition. What is regarded as the full extent of the littoral zone, and the way the littoral zone is divided into subregions ...
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Jade
Jade is an umbrella term for two different types of decorative rocks used for jewelry or Ornament (art), ornaments. Jade is often referred to by either of two different silicate mineral names: nephrite (a silicate of calcium and magnesium in the amphibole group of minerals), or jadeite (a silicate of sodium and aluminum in the pyroxene group of minerals). Nephrite is typically green, although may be yellow, white or black. Jadeite varies from white or near-colorless, through various shades of green (including an emerald green, termed 'imperial'), to Lavender (color), lavender, yellow, orange, brown and black. Rarely it may be blue. Both of these names refer to their use as gemstones, and each has a mineralogically more specific name. Both the amphibole jade (nephrite) and pyroxene jade are mineral aggregates (rocks) rather than mineral species. Nephrite was deprecated by the International Mineralogical Association as a mineral species name in 1978 (replaced by tremolite). The ...
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University Of Paris
The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated with the cathedral school of Paris, it was considered the List of medieval universities, second-oldest university in Europe.Charles Homer Haskins: ''The Rise of Universities'', Henry Holt and Company, 1923, p. 292. Officially chartered in 1200 by Philip II of France, King Philip II and recognised in 1215 by Pope Innocent III, it was nicknamed after its theological College of Sorbonne, founded by Robert de Sorbon and chartered by King Louis IX around 1257. Highly reputed internationally for its academic performance in the humanities ever since the Middle Ages – particularly in theology and philosophy – it introduced academic standards and traditions that have endured and spread, such as Doctor (title), doctoral degrees and student nations. ...
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Les Moutiers-en-Retz
Les Moutiers-en-Retz (, literally ''Les Moutiers in Retz''; ) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Climate The climate which characterises the town was classified, in 2010, as a “frank oceanic climate” (), according to the typology of which identified eight major types of climates in metropolitan France. In 2020, the town was classified as having an “oceanic climate” type using the classification established by Météo-France, which only has five main types of climates for mainland France. This type of climate is characterised by mild temperatures and relatively abundant rainfall (in conjunction with disturbances from the Atlantic), distributed throughout the year with a slight maximum from October to February. The climatic parameters which made it possible to establish the 2010 typology include six variables for temperature and eight for precipitation, the values of which correspond to the monthly data for the 1971–2000 norm. The seven ...
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Polder
A polder () is a low-lying tract of land that forms an artificial hydrology, hydrological entity, enclosed by embankments known as levee, dikes. The three types of polder are: # Land reclamation, Land reclaimed from a body of water, such as a lake or the seabed # Floodplain, Flood plains separated from the sea or river by a dike # Marshes separated from the surrounding water by a dike and subsequently drained; these are also known as ''koogs'', especially in Germany The ground level in drained marshes subsidence, subsides over time. All polders will eventually be below the surrounding water level some or all of the time. Water enters the low-lying polder through infiltration (hydrology), infiltration and water pressure of groundwater, or rainfall, or transport of water by rivers and canals. This usually means that the polder has an excess of water, which is pumped out or drained by opening sluices at low tide. Care must be taken not to set the internal water level too low. Pold ...
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Salt Marsh
A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. It is dominated by dense stands of salt-tolerant plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh in trapping and binding sediments. Salt marshes play a large role in the aquatic food web and the delivery of nutrients to coastal waters. They also support terrestrial animals and provide coastal protection. Salt marshes have historically been endangered by poorly implemented coastal management practices, with land reclaimed for human uses or polluted by upstream agriculture or other industrial coastal uses. Additionally, sea level rise caused by climate change is endangering other marshes, through erosion and submersion of otherwise tidal marshes. ...
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