Coat of arms

• First Pale: Blue, three gold fleurs de lys
  Fleur-de-lis
  The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys is a stylized lily or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. It may be "at one and the same time, political, dynastic, artistic, emblematic, and symbolic", especially in heraldry...
  
  , Pales split in two by a shortened staff with a red hache. (La France illustrée, 1882, de Malte-Brun
  Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun
  Victor Adolphe Malte-Brun was a French geographer and cartographer.He was born in Paris, France. The son of Conrad Malte-Brun, another geographer, of Danish origin, and founder of the Société de Géographie....
  
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• Red haches, semy of gold fleur-de-lis. (La France illustrée, 1882, de Malte-Brun)

Notable people

• Jean de Laval - in French
• Françoise de Foix
  Françoise de Foix
  Françoise de Foix, Comtesse de Châteaubriant was a mistress of Francis I of France.-Background:Françoise was the daughter of Jean de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, and Jeanne d'Aydie. Her father was the son of Pierre de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec; Pierre had been a younger brother of Gaston IV of Foix,...
  
  
• Victor Hugo
  Victor Hugo
  Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
  
  

Monuments and sites of interest

• Château de Châteaubriant
• Église Saint-Jean de Béré: 10th Century Parish.
• Carrière des Fusillés: Memorial dedicated to those executed by Germans in revenge for the assassination of their Lieutenant-Colonel Karl Holtz in Nantes on 22 October 1941.

Sister cities

• Radevormwald (Germany) 1981
  Radevormwald
  Radevormwald is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of the oldest towns in the Bergischen Land, formerly the County and Duchy of Berg.-Geography:Radevormwald is located about 50 km east of Cologne...
  
  
• Athlone (Ireland) 1975
• Brabova (Romania) 1990
  Dolj County
  Dolj -Jiu, "lower Jiu", toward Gorj ) is a county of Romania, in Oltenia, with the capital city at Craiova .- Demographics :In 2002, it had a population of 734,231 and a population density of 99/km²....
  
  
• Tigzirt (Algeria)
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  

See also

• Communes of the Loire-Atlantique department
• Edict of Châteaubriant
  Edict of Châteaubriant
  The Edict of Châteaubriant, issued from the seat of Anne, duc de Montmorency in Brittany, was promulgated by Henri II of France, 27 June 1551. The Edict was one of an increasingly severe series of measures taken by Henry II against Protestants, whom he regarded as heretics...
  
  
• Chateaubriand

External links

• see Châteaubriant's French Wikipedia site for external links in French
• Châteaubriant on the French Map
• Map of Châteaubriant
• Site officiel du Pays de Châteaubriant
• Châteaubriant Online News