News

14 October 2026

Radio Trentemoult streams online 24/7, with a 2026-2027 schedule that mixes music, village stories and a show for young children.

Radio Trentemoult

6 October 2026

For Octobre Rose, FC Nantes held a photo shoot at the Bistrot du Port, with Manon, Chanel and Noémie wearing the pink collector shirt. Half the profits go to two Nantes charities.

FC Nantes

6 October 2026

On 10-11 October the Maison des Isles hosted some fifty local authors and publishers for the fair's 4th edition, which is looking for new volunteers.

Ouest-France

29 September 2026

The plant next to the Trentemoult-Les Isles area is close to full capacity. It will be modernised and expanded from 2030, and residents can give their views from 17 November.

Ville de Rezé

27 September 2026

In an unmarked house in the village, the ONA chef welcomes six guests for a long, fully plant-based and staged meal. She is asking people to book to keep the place alive.

France 3 Pays de la Loire

20 September 2026

On 20 September the CNSL raced sail-and-oar boats, dinghies and sea rowing boats off the quay, with activities, a brass band and a history exhibition.

Ouest-France

10 September 2026

On 10 September, 6-10pm, the village's artists' studios opened in the evening for the very first time.

Big City Nantes

1 July 2026

The makers' market on place des Filets reopened for July and August, 11am-6pm, with around fifty rotating stallholders and a big finale on 30 August.

Ouest-France

11 May 2026

From 7 to 10 May, the 12th Fanfaronnades filled Trentemoult with more than 30 brass bands from all over France.

Ville de Rezé

29 March 2026

On Sunday 29 March, the Jean-Jaurès school collective's big flea market filled the quay and lanes from 8am.

Nantes Métropole

18 February 2026

On the evening of 18 February the Loire spilled onto the quays: old Navibus pontoon underwater, quays closed, and onlookers came to see a "little Venice".

Ouest-France

12 November 2025

The Roquios pontoon gives way to Trentemoult-Sablières on quai Marcel-Boissard: N1 to Gare maritime, N2 extended to Bas-Chantenay and the Hangar à Bananes, and a 140-space park-and-ride.

Semitan

1 October 2025

Renovated and enlarged, the Trentemoult slipway has been operational since late September 2025. Doubled in width and lengthened, it is now 15 metres wide and 55 metres long, with lighting added. “Before, we could only take two sail-and-oar boats out or in at the same time. Now five boats can set off on the Loire at any hour, without waiting for half-tide or high tide,” explains Yvon Kerhervé, president of the Sèvre et Loire sailing centre. Discussed during the 2016 great debate on the Loire, the works were funded by Nantes Métropole and required compensatory measures for two protected plants.

Rezé Mensuel n°203 (novembre 2025), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

12 September 2025

On 12-13 September 2025 the harbour hosted a festival blending art and ecology, "halfway between land and sea".

Nantes Métropole

1 September 2025

You will have to wait until next year to see sail-and-oar boats, zefs, sea yoles and other boats sailing off Trentemoult. The Regatta, due to take place in mid-September 2025, was cancelled. The reason: works on the Trentemoult port slipway, delayed by Loire floods. Once finished, the wider slipway will allow several boats to be launched or hauled out safely. Rezé Mensuel promised to meet again the following year to enjoy the nautical show and the entertainment, once the work was done.

Rezé Mensuel n°201 (septembre 2025), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

28 June 2025

Among the summer 2025 events noted by Rezé Mensuel: the Saint-Jean bonfire, on Saturday 28 June at 7 pm, a popular festival organised by Trentemoult's tourist-office association, with, around 10:15 pm, the burning of a large pallet structure by the blacksmiths of the association Fer, then a dance until 1 am, with bar and food on site. On Saturday 5 July, the festival Agités d'la cale invited people to take seats at the long tables of the quai de l'Échouage, on the Haute-Île, with opera, DJ set and song, a thrift market from 11 am, music workshops for children, an oyster bar and food trucks.

Rezé Mensuel n°200 (juin, juillet, août 2025), p. 11 — Ville de Rezé

14 June 2025

Débord de Loire returned for a 4th edition from 12 to 18 June 2025, from Saint-Brevin-les-Pins to Mauves-sur-Loire, via Rezé. The highlight was the great nautical parade on Saturday 14 June, with much-awaited boats such as the Belem, the three-master built in Nantes, and L'Étoile du Roy, a replica of a British frigate seen in “The Count of Monte Cristo”. The Trentemoult quays offered a prime view at the end of the day. Ashore: a batucada from the municipal music school from 6:15 pm, a B6K concert at 7:30 pm, then a DJ set by the association À mi-marée. On 15 June the City organised a nature walk along the Loire.

Rezé Mensuel n°200 (juin, juillet, août 2025), p. 11 — Ville de Rezé

7 May 2025

A TF1 report showcases Trentemoult, its bright façades, the boat crossing from Nantes and its slow pace.

TF1 Info

1 April 2025

The end of diesel navibus has come. From 2027, Nantes Métropole will acquire and gradually deploy five electric catamaran-type navibus, serving in particular the routes from Trentemoult. They will carry 150 passengers, against about a hundred today, as well as bicycles. Their engines will be electric, recharged during stops, with a thermal range extender to take over if sailing conditions require. The Métropole funds the purchase of the boats and the quayside adaptations. A new river link to Bas-Chantenay is announced from September 2025.

Rezé Mensuel n°198 (avril 2025), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

27 March 2025

On 30 March 2025, quai Marcel-Boissard and the lanes hosted about 300 stallholders, raising money for the Jean-Jaurès school.

Big City Nantes

1 February 2025

Not yet built, but already named! The first ten public streets on the former slaughterhouse site, in the Les Isles development zone, now have their names. From 21 November to 21 December 2024, more than 300 Rezé residents voted. Four names of notable women were chosen: Jeanne de Belleville, Rachel Carson, Harriet Tubman and Victoria Drummond. Six common names tied to the history of the place came out on top: Les civelles, Les cap-hornières, Angélique des estuaires, Les bargers (fishermen of the Isles), Le Courtil-Brisset (the stream that once flowed in Trentemoult) and Les pibaliers. The first buildings are due in late 2027.

Rezé Mensuel n°196 (février 2025), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

10 January 2025

On 10 January 2025, the City of Rezé and the Loire, Sèvre and Vignoble division of Nantes Métropole presented to Haute-Île residents the final layout of the “La Loire à vélo” route, the cycling route that follows the river. From autumn 2025, 1.5 km of roadway is to be redeveloped between the Hôpital privé du Confluent and the Trois-Continents bridge, with planting carried out along the route. Rezé Mensuel relayed the information in its “Je participe !” section, devoted to civic life, street works and projects under discussion with the town's residents.

Rezé Mensuel n°197 (mars 2025), p. 14 — Ville de Rezé

18 December 2024

Faced with costly major dredging, Nantes Métropole is trying smaller, more targeted and more frequent operations at Trentemoult harbour.

Ouest-France

1 October 2024

Edmond Guibert's latest book, “Femmes de Loire”, gathers eighteen women from varied backgrounds who share a strong bond with the river: a naval officer, a navibus captain, a storyteller… Each portrait pairs a photo or painting chosen from the author's vast documentary collection with a text more affectionate and poetic than his earlier technical books. In all there are “really 20 women” in the book, counting Frédérique Lamy, who wrote the preface, and Isabelle Cahier, who posed for the cover. Published by Victor Stanne and in bookshops at €30, it was featured in Rezé Mensuel in October 2024.

Rezé Mensuel n°192 (octobre 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

27 September 2024

After two editions outside the village, the Fanfaronnades returned to Trentemoult for their 11th edition, from 27 to 29 September 2024: three days of unamplified music by 400 musicians, with three stages, two of them under big tops, set up in the Parc de la Grève, and bands in the village's streets and lanes. The programme included local bands on Friday, national and international guests on Saturday and Sunday, children's bands on Sunday afternoon, band “battles” and a flash mob, about forty 45-minute concerts in all. The biennial festival had drawn 25,000 visitors in 2022.

Rezé Mensuel n°191 (septembre 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

15 September 2024

On Sunday 15 September 2024, from 11 am to 6 pm, the Trentemoult Regatta hoisted its sails again for its 131st edition, run by the Sèvre et Loire sailing centre, on land and on the water. From the port quays you could watch sail-and-oar boats, Zef dinghies, cabin boats and sea rowing boats. The “Vétille”, a historic sailboat listed as maritime heritage, took part, as did the inter-association challenge Objectif Loire, where six crews competed. On shore, place des Filets, there were accrovoile climbing, a knot-tying workshop, a concert by steel-drum band Calyps' Atlantic and food.

Rezé Mensuel n°191 (septembre 2024), p. 27 — Ville de Rezé

14 September 2024

After the Petits Bazars, the makers' markets held in July and August on place des Filets, there is always a Grand Bazar! For the 10th edition, the collective Clés doubled its efforts: the Grand Bazar ran over two days, 14 and 15 September 2024, on the port of Trentemoult and around the Maison des Isles. The programme included a makers' market, a fashion parade, protest songs and an evening of concerts with DJ Blacksad, Alex Ruiz and DJ Latipik on Saturday, then a musical nap, a spinning-top tournament and concerts on Sunday, plus line fishing for adults. A 100% local event.

Rezé Mensuel n°191 (septembre 2024), p. 27 — Ville de Rezé

1 June 2024

For its third edition, the event Duo, started by the association Art Connexion 44, promised new artistic encounters on 1 and 2 June 2024. Ten duos of artists and professionals, created for the occasion, each presented their work in ten different places in Trentemoult. The programme mixed photography, video, music, painting, sculpture, reading, poetry, singing, dance, theatre, juggling and calligraphy. Entry was by badge at €10 (€15 for two), free for children. Also noted in the same issue: on 25 May at 7 pm, the troupe Los Martos offered an improv cabaret at the Maison des Isles, free entry, booking recommended.

Rezé Mensuel n°189 (mai 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

18 May 2024

On 18 and 19 May 2024, the second Trentemoult Book Fair invited readers to discover the output of local authors and publishers: no fewer than 55 authors to meet, publishers, a storytelling screening, a poetry reading, a children's workshop on “making a book from A to Z” and a Japanese bookbinding workshop. Initiated in 2023 by Éric Perraud of the association Îles'liens, it was run this year by the Maison des utopies magnifiques, the association of Nantes novelists and Rezé Histoire, with the Loire-et-Seil community centre. About 550 visitors came the previous year.

Rezé Mensuel n°189 (mai 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

30 April 2024

From late April 2024 to May 2025, the Anne-de-Bretagne bridge and boulevard Léon-Bureau are closed to vehicles in both directions, with only pedestrians, cyclists and emergency services allowed through, as part of the works linked to the arrival of the tram. To help Rezé residents, including those of Trentemoult, get around, Nantes Métropole planned measures: crossings doubled on navibus N1, with a boat every ten minutes and service extended to 9 pm, stronger frequency on several transit lines, a free one-month trial of the Naolib network and extra electric bikes for long-term rental.

Rezé Mensuel n°188 (avril 2024), p. 13 — Ville de Rezé

7 April 2024

The Trentemoult flea market, on the Loire bank, is a spring classic. For its 28th edition, on Sunday 7 April 2024 from 9 am to 5 pm, the Jean-Jaurès school's parents' association, running the event, announced 270 stalls and 135 volunteers, recalling 240 kg of chips, 500 crêpes, thousands of visitors and 161 happy pupils. Profits fund educational outings, shows and small equipment for the schoolchildren. The same Sunday, 7 April, sixteen artists were also exhibiting at the Maison des Isles and giving half of their sales to the association Les Amis des enfants du monde, to fund programmes for disadvantaged children.

Rezé Mensuel n°188 (avril 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

16 March 2024

Born in 1933 “at the far end of Finistère”, Marie-Thérèse Le Moal worked as a schoolteacher, notably on the island of Sein in 1961, with her husband, the painter Yves Marion. The couple settled in 1989 on the Haute-Île, then in 1998 the painter found his dream studio on the Trentemoult quay; she stayed there after his death in 2007. A familiar figure for her walks along the quay and her Tuesday-morning meetings at the Café du port, she is moving back to Douarnenez after thirty-five years in the neighbourhood. Neighbours and friends paid tribute to her on 16 and 17 March 2024, from 11 am to 5 pm, with Yves Marion's works shown in private homes.

Rezé Mensuel n°187 (mars 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

1 February 2024

After the festive season, mountains of oyster, scallop and mussel shells are thrown away: 250,000 tonnes a year in France. In 2020, Morgan Guyader, a graduate of the École de design Nantes Atlantique, imagined turning them into a material: 60% crushed shells, stone and a little glue. His company Malakio, created with childhood friend Hugo Kermarrec, moved in late 2022 to a 320 m² workshop on the Haute-Île. There it handcrafts coasters, trays, candle holders and mirrors, without firing and with little water. Restaurants, including the starred Les Cadets in Nantes, appreciate the sustainable design.

Rezé Mensuel n°186 (février 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

1 January 2024

Did you know that cigarette butts or wipes thrown on the road near storm-drain grilles end up in waterways, which carry them to the ocean? To raise awareness, Nantes Métropole created ground signage placed beside the drains. Nine markers stamped “Ici commence la Loire” (“The Loire starts here”) have been installed in Trentemoult. The same issue of Rezé Mensuel (January 2024) also featured the woodworking workshop of the Loire-et-Seil community centre, where eleven teenagers aged 11 to 18 learn, one Saturday a month, to build furniture such as garden furniture from pallet wood.

Rezé Mensuel n°185 (janvier 2024), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

1 December 2023

Could the Isles district be Rezé's beer stronghold? It is where the craft brewery Nautile was born in 2017, now on rue du Seil, and where Fanny Delhommeau created her micro-brewery Maze, at 2 bis rue Codet. Though not certified organic, she uses ingredients from organic farming and even grows hops in her mother's garden in Rezé. The “Maze touch”: beers with small bubbles, raw ingredients and little sugar. She produces 300 to 400 litres a month, sold locally, and handles bottling, labels and the deposit scheme herself. Excessive alcohol consumption is harmful to health.

Rezé Mensuel n°184 (décembre 2023), p. 13 — Ville de Rezé

28 November 2023

For its tenth anniversary, the year-end art and makers' market ran over two weekends.

Ouest-France

25 November 2023

“At Saint Catherine's, every wood takes root.” On 25 November 2023 and the following days, Rezé's municipal gardeners planted fruit trees in the Parc de la Grève, in Trentemoult, with the three residents who won the Neighbourhood Envelopes. The “Communs fruits” orchard project had gathered 223 votes. According to Rezé Mensuel of February 2024, two apple trees, three plum trees, a peach and a pear were planted that Saturday, with help from elected officials and Trentemoult residents, then eight more fruit trees on 18 January 2024. Until the harvest can be shared, neighbourhood residents can watch the trees grow.

Rezé Mensuel n°183 (novembre 2023), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

24 September 2023

After a three-year break, the Trentemoult Regatta, run by the Sèvre et Loire sailing centre, returned on Sunday 24 September 2023. Rezé Mensuel did not promise famous three-masters, but gallant sail-and-oar boats and their crews, for a fine show in the Trentemoult roadstead. The programme combined nautical activity on the Loire with a popular festival on shore, with entertainment for children and their parents on place des Filets, from 11 am to 6 pm, plus a bar and food on site.

Rezé Mensuel n°181 (septembre 2023), p. 7 — Ville de Rezé

15 September 2023

For its second edition, the amphibious festival À mi-marée took place in the port of Trentemoult on Friday 15 September 2023 from 6:30 pm to midnight and on Saturday 16 from 3 pm to midnight, pay-what-you-want, with food and a bar on site. Organised by a collective of associations, cultural venues and “lovers of the sea, the river and the land”, it offered a river-and-sea voyage mixing storytelling, theatre, concerts, workshops, exhibitions, talks, short films and a film-concert, against a backdrop of sea spray, foam and the Loire tide, with activities on ecology in the nautical world.

Rezé Mensuel n°181 (septembre 2023), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

28 July 2023

In summer visitors flock to this village of 1,400 people. Residents describe noise and intrusions, even into their living rooms.

Ouest-France

27 July 2023

Many people think Trentemoult is an island. It isn't anymore, but it once was, surrounded by the Seil and the Courtil-Brisset.

Ouest-France

2 July 2023

For its 9th edition, Le Grand Petit Bazar, a makers' sales exhibition, set up its summer quarters in Trentemoult: every Sunday in July and August 2023, from noon to 6 pm, on place des Filets, at 7 quai Robert-Surcouf, pay-what-you-want. Until September it also ran on the first Saturday of each month at La Cambuse, in Pirmil. On Sunday 27 August, from noon to 7 pm, the Grand Bazar also took over the courtyard of the Hangar du Pendule, with a rock concert by Alex Ruiz to close. It was a friendly way to discover makers and craftspeople while strolling by the Loire.

Rezé Mensuel n°180 (juin, juillet, août 2023), p. 19 — Ville de Rezé

3 June 2023

From 30 May to 5 June 2023, Débord de Loire gathered some 200 boats, including the famous Belem. On 3 June the Nantes three-master set out alongside the Oosterschelde, a Dutch schooner from 1918, and Le Français, the ex-Kaskelot built in Denmark in 1948, for a parade on the Loire from Saint-Brevin-les-Pins to Nantes. It was a sight to watch from the Trentemoult quays or the Cale Aubin garden. The village lived to the rhythm of boats and music all weekend: Brazilian dance workshops, a batucada, a hip-hop dance show, a folk ball, a percussion concert and women's singing. A bike parade also followed the boats along the estuary.

Rezé Mensuel n°179 (mai 2023), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

1 May 2023

In May 2023 the restaurant “Farniente”, one of the smallest in the world, opens in the car park of Scopéli, the cooperative supermarket, at 20 rue de l'Abbé-Grégoire. It has only four seats in its sun-coloured caravan, plus a few on a terrace. At the stove is Pauline Potteuw, a former chef at the Grand T restaurant, backed by Scopéli, by the cooperative Ouvre-Boîtes 44 and by about a hundred contributors who raised €8,000 through crowdfunding. From Tuesday to Friday at lunchtime she cooks Scopéli's products and fish from a Rezé fish merchant, without meat, with two dishes and two desserts a day.

Rezé Mensuel n°179 (mai 2023), p. 18 — Ville de Rezé

16 December 2022

On 16, 17 and 18 December 2022 the association Les Magnifiques utopiques, together with the Loire-et-Seil community centre, offered the Z'Illuminantes de Trentemoult: a festive, artistic and participatory weekend around light. It began on Friday with the Festival of Lights, then continued on Saturday and Sunday with demonstrations and artistic performances, concerts, readings, screenings and storytelling at the Maison des Isles and around the port. A couple of weeks after the Christmas Flâneries, the event extended the year-end atmosphere in the village.

Rezé Mensuel n°174 (décembre 2022), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

3 December 2022

On 3 and 4 December 2022, the Christmas Flâneries, run by the association Clés, enlivened the lanes of Trentemoult: 52 makers in 28 venues, from the Maison des Isles to the Hangar du Pendule, where the Flâneries bar stood. Maps guided visitors, with surprises along the way. Four choirs, including the Trentemoult choir and the women's choir Zingarelle, sang at street corners. Photographer Anne Landais projected her “Regards confinés” and a children's illustrator welcomed kids at the sailing club. Pottery, jewellery, wooden toys, children's clothes: local gifts, often eco-responsible and zero waste. Saturday 11 am–8 pm, Sunday 11 am–6 pm.

Ouest-France

21 October 2022

The metropolis opens consultation on a Trentemoult–Bas-Chantenay link and a new pier near the old Sablières.

20 Minutes

16 September 2022

Dead calm for the 2022 Regatta: facing a steep extra cost for renting pontoons, the Sèvre-et-Loire sailing centre gave up the traditional race. It kept activities going on 16, 17 and 18 September: a talk on the history of the Trentemoult regattas on Friday evening, with writer François Puget, a specialist in Loire navigation, and the Amis de Rezé; a retrospective exhibition on regattas and leisure sailing on the Loire; and the Objectif Loire outing, with seven association crews. The centre was already looking for ways to hold a “real reunion” in 2023.

Rezé Mensuel n°171 (septembre 2022), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

13 August 2022

The heat spikes of summer 2022 lowered the Loire to a level too low to keep navibus line 1 running. Between Friday 12 and Tuesday 16 August, the Tan operator therefore suspended the link between Trentemoult Roquios and the Gare maritime in Nantes during several afternoon slots: 13 August from 2 to 4 pm, 14 August from 2:40 to 4:40 pm, 15 August from 3:20 to 4:20 pm and 16 August from 4 to 5 pm. The shuttle is free at weekends. The episode is a reminder that the crossing depends directly on the tide and the river level.

Ouest-France

2 July 2022

Opened on 2 July 2022 at 110 rue de la Basse-Île, on the former Conforama depot, the Cale Aubin garden covers 5,000 m²: a gently sloping grassy beach, reed bed, a cutting garden of willow and poplar, and a plane-tree terrace. The first green milestone of the future river park of the Pirmil-les Isles development, which will eventually stretch 600 metres to the Trois-Continents bridge, it offers a view of the Loire, the Île de Nantes and the Sainte-Anne hill. The site, floodable for part of the year, will remain open to residents. The inauguration came with an exhibition on citizens' proposals from the consultation.

Rezé Mensuel n°170 (juin, juillet, août 2022), p. 7 — Ville de Rezé

3 June 2022

From 3 to 5 June 2022 the Fanfaronnades celebrated two anniversaries: the festival's tenth year and the twentieth of Le Grandmachinchose, the organising brass band. With 25,000 spectators in 2019, it is one of the biggest brass-band festivals in western France. More than 500 musicians from all over France took over the lanes of Trentemoult and the Transfert site, from funk to Balkan, reggae to rap, including children's bands with the schools. The programme included the eagerly awaited release of bands in Trentemoult on Saturday afternoon, followed by a flash mob, and band battles. Admission was free.

Rezé Mensuel n°170 (juin, juillet, août 2022), p. 14 — Ville de Rezé

1 April 2022

About a hundred times a year, in front of the port of Trentemoult, large cargo ships 90 to 225 metres long turn around in the roadstead in barely fifteen minutes, helped by Loire pilots and tugboats: this is the “évitage”. Three residents, Edmond Guibert, Éric Perraud and Philippe Michel, who have photographed the manoeuvre for more than forty, twenty and ten years respectively, produced the book “Évitage à Trentemoult-les-Isles”, published in November 2021 by Victor Stanne (€20). The ships come to load grain at the Roche-Maurice terminal, the second on the west coast. Presented as a travel notebook, the book explains the manoeuvre, the variety of ships and their flags.

Rezé Mensuel n°168 (avril 2022), p. 17 — Ville de Rezé

1 March 2022

With remote working, coworking spaces have multiplied in Rezé in varied forms: several residential houses have been converted into workspaces. In Trentemoult, the École Buissonnière is decorated in the spirit of 1950s and 1960s classrooms. In the same district, the Tiers Lieu Productif (TLP), recently created by the Rezé start-up Nielsen Concept, is dedicated to sustainable-city businesses and offers, over three levels, varied spaces and even a garden to work in when the weather is fine. Rates, by the hour, day or month, range from 25 euros a day to 300 euros a month for an office, according to Rezé Mensuel.

Rezé Mensuel n°167 (mars 2022), p. 15 — Ville de Rezé

1 March 2022

In her small office on the Haute-Île, Camille Trivun created Yokow, her responsible jeans brand, in September 2019. A stylist and pattern-maker in ready-to-wear, she quit in 2017, bothered by “the other side of the scenes”: human and environmental consequences and the frantic pace of collections. Her models carry women's or film names, such as “Thelma et Louise”, “Janis” or “Simone”. Having found no workshop in France, the jeans are made in Tunisia by a family company with eco-friendly rinsing: “between two and four litres of water, against hundreds for a classic pair”. All the photo shoots are done in Rezé.

Rezé Mensuel n°167 (mars 2022), p. 21 — Ville de Rezé

1 February 2022

Rezé is taking part in an experiment launched by Nantes Métropole to let residents sort their waste in public space too, for example with bins that separate what is recyclable from what is not. Two sites are involved: Trentemoult, near the Maison des Isles, and the Château district, around the Paul-Allain park and the skatepark. Sorting devices will be tested there in spring 2022. The aim is to check their effectiveness before the anti-waste law for the circular economy (Agec), which requires sorting in public space, takes effect in 2025.

Rezé Mensuel n°166 (février 2022), p. 11 — Ville de Rezé

1 October 2021

Nine artists and art craftspeople share the Ateliers Haute-Île at 7 rue de l'Île-Macé, in a former warehouse and then metalworker's workshop. The project was started by the Nantes association MilleFeuilles, which put out a call for applications to share the workshop. Settled there since early 2020, they did not know each other: a cabinetmaker who makes lamps, a maker of wooden surfboards, a painter, a jewellery designer, visual artists, sculptors… “We form a small community, we pool materials and tools, we help each other.” Reducing environmental impact and salvaging materials are shared concerns. Two open days, in June and September 2021, let residents discover the place.

Rezé Mensuel n°162 (octobre 2021), p. 15 — Ville de Rezé

19 September 2021

In his book “Chroniques de la renverse”, Trentemoult resident Michel Le Brigand offers his view of the city and the Loire from kayak height. “The renverse is the moment when the tide changes direction,” he says with a smile, adding that he only goes out by kayak at high tide, when conditions allow. Born in Brittany, he has paddled the Loire for twenty years: “twenty years of rituals and routes that settled into this book”. He read extracts at a reading-concert with pianist Liliya Clem on Sunday 19 September 2021 at 11 am at the Maison des Isles, as part of the European Heritage Days.

Rezé Mensuel n°161 (septembre 2021), p. 7 — Ville de Rezé

10 September 2021

A collective of Rezé artists and boaters launched “À mi-marée”, presented as Loire-Atlantique's first amphibious festival: a festival halfway between land and sea, between art and science, celebrating the preservation of ecosystems. Planned in the port of Trentemoult on 10 and 11 September 2021, with activities on land and on the water, it had to scale back that year in order to return stronger in 2022. Two free concerts were scheduled: on Friday, Agua Sonora, a “water-lily orchestra” with a Latin American repertoire, performed on the water; on Saturday, a session of traditional Irish music.

Rezé Mensuel n°161 (septembre 2021), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

9 September 2021

3,300 homes, a school and shops: an update on the new district reshaping the Loire banks between Pirmil and Trentemoult-Les Isles.

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1 September 2021

A former kitchen garden and orchard is coming back to life in Trentemoult with the association Moult comestibles, which brings together about twenty gardening enthusiasts. Neighbours who met while gardening since 2018 in the flowerbeds of the Maison des Isles, they were drawn closer by the first lockdown and the small plot became too tight. In March 2021 the City made available a former walled orchard of 1,300 m², after cleaning, decontamination, fencing, a shed and a water point. The collective comes first: decisions are made collectively and newcomers are welcome, on Thursdays from 6:30 pm and Sundays from 5 pm, rue Viau.

Rezé Mensuel n°161 (septembre 2021), p. 17 — Ville de Rezé

1 September 2021

Turning a shipping container into a connected bike garage: the idea came from the Rezé company Nielsen Concept. This “bike hut” stands on the quai Surcouf in Trentemoult. Cyclists can leave their bike there 24/7, re-inflate tyres, recharge a battery and even repair their bike with the tools provided. The 11 spaces can be booked by the day through the mobile app mobypod.app and the facility is free to use for one year. The City sees it as a measure to make cycling easier and cut CO₂ emissions; other shelters are being installed elsewhere.

Rezé Mensuel n°161 (septembre 2021), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

7 June 2021

At a public meeting held in June 2021, Trentemoult residents reminded elected officials of their concerns: parking, traffic, upkeep of the quays and terraces spilling onto public space. Seven restaurants now line the quai Marcel-Boissard and, with summer and the navibus link, the terraces are likely to be packed. Some residents complain that certain businesses overflow the space allotted to them and take over slipways, to the detriment of pedestrians. Mayor Hervé Neau said the City and the Grand port had issued several reminders and that residents, traders and tourists must be able to coexist in Trentemoult.

Ouest-France

22 May 2021

Cancelled in December because of health restrictions, the Trentemoult Flâneries bet on spring 2021 with an open-air edition, announced from Saturday 22 to Monday 24 May. Artists, craftspeople and makers were to exhibit in village houses, preferably in gardens and courtyards depending on the colour of the sky and on health conditions, as well as at the Mékano, the Hangar du Pendule and the Maison des Isles. To find them you had to look for the teddy bears, helped by large maps posted in the district. The organisers, the association Îles'Liens with the Maison des magnifiques utopiques and the association Clés, also planned street entertainment if the situation allowed.

Rezé Mensuel n°159 (mai 2021), p. 23 — Ville de Rezé

1 April 2021

An ecological counterpoint to the “Thousand Cows” farm project, the community farm Mille Bras (“Thousand Arms”) grew out of Scopéli, Trentemoult's cooperative supermarket, so as to grow part of its own local organic vegetables. Launched in January 2020 with the help of a market gardener from Bouguenais who lends a greenhouse and a 1,000 m² plot, the project has already yielded 150 kg of beans and 20 kg of blackcurrants, sold at market price. In 2021, two market gardeners will be hired on land bought by Nantes Métropole. The farm has 150 members and hopes to settle in Rezé, offer training and one day supply canteens and hospitals.

Rezé Mensuel n°158 (avril 2021), p. 17 — Ville de Rezé

1 March 2021

North of Rezé, old maps show a small archipelago whose names changed over time: Trentemoult (or Trentemoux), Norkiouse, the Île des Chevaliers… Cut off from the mainland by the Seil, the islands were separated from one another by a watercourse. In 1285, Olive, widow of Mathieu de l'Île, handed lands to the Templars that took the name Île des Chevaliers, with Basse-Île downstream and Haute-Île upstream. A 1698 map calls it the “île de Madagascard”. As the Seil, cut off from the Sèvre as early as the sixth century, gradually dried up, Trentemoult, built on an island of rocky origin, was inhabited from Antiquity, geographer Loïc Ménanteau reminds readers in Rezé Mensuel.

Rezé Mensuel n°157 (mars 2021), p. 20 — Ville de Rezé

1 February 2021

Located in Trentemoult, the Petite Californie wastewater plant treats the sewage of seven municipalities, equivalent to 180,000 inhabitants. Since 2011 it has been used to produce biomethane, a renewable gas, but only 55% of the biogas was put to use, the rest being burned off. Presented to residents on 8 December 2020, a new system designed with operator Suez was meant to use all of it: from June 2021 the biogas would be injected into the GRDF network, a first in Loire-Atlantique. It would produce 10.7 gigawatt-hours a year, the consumption of 2,140 homes, for an investment of €2.8 million by Nantes Métropole.

Rezé Mensuel n°156 (février 2021), p. 10 — Ville de Rezé

5 December 2020

In December 2020, Rezé Mensuel announced Christmas Flâneries for 5 and 6 December in Trentemoult, but “exceptionally, with no street entertainment so as to avoid gatherings”, said organiser Éric Perraud. A tour of 26 venues and about 46 exhibitors was planned, with the event's polar-bear emblem outside each participating venue. The May 2021 issue of the magazine later states that the December edition was cancelled because of health restrictions, which led the organisers to plan a spring edition in 2021. It was a forced parenthesis in the history of one of the village's most anticipated events.

Rezé Mensuel n°154 (décembre 2020), p. 6 — Ville de Rezé

1 December 2020

Anthony Marchand is a plumber who travels by bicycle. He works only within five to six kilometres of his home in Trentemoult, which does not stop him from having plenty of customers: “I stand out from my colleagues, it brings goodwill.” After several years working in Montréal in various fields, he returned to his original training and set up six years ago to work in line with his values and independently. The bike forces him to organise differently, as he cannot carry all his equipment, but it means less traffic stress, easier parking and more time outdoors. Rezé Mensuel profiled him in December 2020.

Rezé Mensuel n°154 (décembre 2020), p. 11 — Ville de Rezé

28 November 2020

In autumn 2020, Rezé's new city council went out to meet residents in each district in small groups, at markets, school gates or near shops, aboard a “citizen bus”: the youth service's van. For Trentemoult–Les Isles, the meeting was set at the market on Saturday 28 November, from 10 am to noon. The officials discussed the first actions launched, gathered opinions and presented the upcoming citizen-dialogue bodies, such as the neighbourhood council or workshops, with health measures observed. The district's elected representative also held monthly drop-in sessions at the Maison des Isles.

Rezé Mensuel n°153 (novembre 2020), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

1 September 2020

Joëlle Legua, who has lived in Trentemoult for about thirty years, has written the story of her life, closely tied to the history of street theatre since the 1970s. She came to Nantes with Royal de Luxe, of which she was a member from the very beginning, and has been an actress, director, author and singer, as “Joe” or as the extravagant singer Rosita. Her book, “Bonsoir public chéri”, came out in late 2019 in 110 copies, handmade with friends (folding, sewing, gluing, binding) and distributed at a pay-what-you-want price. Her daughter Lola, who set up a community print shop, produced the book. A reissue is expected, Rezé Mensuel noted in September 2020.

Rezé Mensuel n°151 (septembre 2020), p. 25 — Ville de Rezé

25 July 2020

During the spring 2020 lockdown, Camille Saint-M'Leu, a young cook from Trentemoult, turned his mother's former architecture office into a culinary laboratory. Trained at the Ferrandi school in Paris and then in the pastry kitchen of a two-star restaurant, he came up with original ice creams, described as little gastronomic jewels, rather than “waiting for it to pass”. The Ouest-France article, published on 25 July 2020, tells how a period of constraint became the starting point of a local craft venture in the village. It is a fine example of the spirit of initiative that drives Trentemoult.

Ouest-France

8 March 2020

For International Women's Day, on Sunday 8 March 2020, the “motardes solidaires” ride had its arrival village on the port of Trentemoult. From noon to 6 pm, the association Lucky Rider ran activities there to welcome the riders and the public. The event was part of the city's 8 March programme, alongside exhibitions on girl-boy equality, skate and BMX introductions with priority for girls, and a “Girls Power” concert at the Barakason. Local associations also took part, including the Loire-et-Seil community centre with a talk and a film debate.

Rezé Mensuel n°150 (mars 2020), p. 5 — Ville de Rezé

2 March 2020

In March 2020 the association Trentemoult village said it was ready to act as a source of proposals on neighbourhood matters, provided Nantes Métropole involved residents in decisions, “so as to avoid reliving a situation like that of the boiler plant”. The subject was the so-called “Colas” area, a plot next to the village. According to the association, residents voiced both concerns, notably about possible nuisance from restaurants or bars or a Transfert-type venue, and ideas for the space. The initiative is part of the dialogue between residents and public authorities that accompanies the village's evolution.

Ouest-France

1 March 2020

Inaugurated in September 2018 at the entrance of the Roquios car park, on the Trentemoult quay, the secure bike shelter known as the “Mobilypod” has been trialling solar power since early 2020. Public-works company Colas, which invented the solution, installed three photovoltaic slabs in front of the shelter; each produces the energy needed to charge one parked electric bike. Designed by the Rezé start-up Nielsen Concept from a shipping container, the shelter is built by an integration workshop. The City bought two: the Trentemoult one and another near the town hall. Nielsen Concept also offers charging stations for electric scooters.

Rezé Mensuel n°150 (mars 2020), p. 19 — Ville de Rezé

1 March 2020

The telephone appeared in France about 140 years ago, yet in 1965 only 2.5 million of 50 million households were listed in the directory. The Amis de Rezé, in their newsletter, leafed through the 1950s directory: seven doctors, five pharmacies, a notary, four hotels… and very few subscribers. For practically all Rezé residents, a telephone was reachable only from three public booths, in Pont-Rousseau, Ragon and Trentemoult, from 8 am to noon and 2 to 6 pm, except on Sundays. Rezé Mensuel retold the story in March 2020, a small look back at an era when you crossed the village to make a call.

Rezé Mensuel n°150 (mars 2020), p. 20 — Ville de Rezé

11 February 2020

On 11 February 2020 the new Navibus line N2 was inaugurated between the Hangar à bananes, on the Île de Nantes, and Bas-Chantenay. The boat “Heb Ken”, 20 metres long, carries 140 passengers and ten bicycles; the crossing takes six minutes, with a departure every twenty minutes. The article notes that the first line, between the Gare maritime and Trentemoult, recorded 700,000 passengers in 2019: a success that encouraged the Métropole to develop further river links. N2 also recalls the history of the roquios, the ferrymen who linked the two banks of the Loire until the mid-twentieth century.

Presse Océan / Ouest-France

18 December 2019

In December 2019 a major dredging project began at Trentemoult harbour to make the moorings usable again.

20 Minutes

6 December 2019

From Friday 6 to Sunday 8 December 2019, the 6th Christmas Flâneries brought together more than forty exhibitors in some thirty places across Trentemoult: artists who live or work in the district opened their doors to the public. To spot the exhibitors you just had to look for the teddy bears. On Saturday the News Fanfare roamed the streets; on Sunday, country dancing enlivened the village. Hours: Friday 5–8 pm, Saturday 11 am–8 pm, Sunday 11 am–6 pm. It was a way to stroll while choosing original local gifts, long before the tenth edition celebrated in 2023.

Rezé Mensuel n°147 (décembre 2019), p. 8 — Ville de Rezé

23 November 2019

Founded in 2017, the collective Les Magnifiques utopiques brings together more than eighty makers, mostly women who have changed careers. Its charter is clear: no imported products, no stolen images, a real ecological sensitivity. Since March 2019 the collective has had a house in Trentemoult, home to workshops, a sales gallery, a lecture room and a bookshop. Its Christmas market took place on 23 and 24 November 2019 at L'Orphéon, with about fifteen artists and Moroccan specialities to taste. The event was a prelude to the December Flâneries and confirmed the place of makers in the village's identity.

Rezé Mensuel n°146 (novembre 2019), p. 17 — Ville de Rezé

21 November 2019

In early November 2019, Erena, which operates the Centre Loire heating network, began testing the new wood boiler at Petite Californie, near Trentemoult. Plumes of smoke were visible in the sky; according to Nantes Métropole this can happen intermittently while the settings are adjusted. On 7 November the chimney released a nuisance of black smoke for about an hour: as a precaution the head of the neighbouring school kept nursery children indoors and alerted the town hall. A residents' group opposed to the project mobilised and the mayor received them. The Métropole spoke of a technical incident and announced that testing would resume no earlier than 26 November.

Ouest-France

1 October 2019

Natives of Trentemoult, Youenn and Fañch Landreau recorded a traditional-music album in autumn 2019. Fañch plays violin and Youenn the Chapman Stick, an unusual stringed instrument of which he is one of the virtuosos. The two brothers have played together for years but had never recorded their duo: it took about two years of preparation and rehearsals. The CD, whose title alludes to the glass eel, the small fish emblematic of the Loire, was designed by graphic artist Nicolas Bocquel and produced by Coop Breizh. It is an album deeply tied to the village, featured in the city's October magazine.

Rezé Mensuel n°145 (octobre 2019), p. 16 — Ville de Rezé

1 October 2019

Jean-François Morange and Nicolas Bocquel are neither brothers nor named Dubois, but that is the name under which they perform. Their intimate show, increasingly theatrical, alternates songs and sketches. In autumn 2019 the duo released a ten-track CD, “Créateurs d'émotions fortes”, recorded in Trentemoult in Youenn Landreau's studio. The booklet is by Nicolas Bocquel, who is also a graphic designer, with a sleeve that has no beginning or end and a two-headed fish. It is one example among others of the village's discreet musical life, where artists and studios share the same lanes.

Rezé Mensuel n°145 (octobre 2019), p. 17 — Ville de Rezé

27 September 2019

At a public meeting at Rezé town hall in late September 2019, Nantes Métropole announced the renovation of Trentemoult's quays. Collapsed steps, slipways overrun with weeds and hollows under the rock armour: the damage had been known since an alert was raised in 2016. The works, funded by the Métropole at about €480,000, were to run from November 2019 to March 2020, in three zones treated one after another from east to west. The room was almost full of attentive residents following the schedule and the details of the site. The port was then dredged, as covered in another news item on this site.

Ouest-France

22 September 2019

On Sunday 22 September 2019, the port of Trentemoult hosted the 129th edition of its Regatta. The programme included races for all types of boats and the inter-association challenge, in which six crews mixing seasoned and beginner sailors competed in “seils”, including a crew of municipal staff and one of firefighters. Activities included rowing events, manoeuvring and slalom tests, children's “accrovoile” climbing on masts, sandpits in dinghies, a miniature-fleet pond and the brass band Le Grandmachinchose. The free event is run by the Sèvre-et-Loire sailing centre. Born in the late nineteenth century, these regattas are a reminder that the village has always kept a close bond with the Loire and with recreational sailing.

Rezé Mensuel n°144 (septembre 2019), p. 23 — Ville de Rezé

21 September 2019

On Saturday 21 September 2019, from 10 am to 1 pm, the City of Rezé invited Trentemoult residents to pick up litter in the village streets as part of World Clean Up Day. This worldwide day of citizen clean-up, held every September, mobilises volunteers in dozens of countries. In Rezé the operation was open to everyone and ended with a drink offered to participants. The Château district had its own operation the same day, from 10 am to 12:30 pm. It was a simple way to keep the colourful lanes, the quays and the port area clean, all of which are very busy once the fine weather arrives.

Rezé Mensuel n°144 (septembre 2019), p. 19 — Ville de Rezé

21 May 2019

On 21 May 2019, the City of Rezé christened “Le Ville de Rezé”, a sailboat that now lives on dry land. Built in Trentemoult in 1973 at the Chantier du port, one of the village's family boatyards, this Mopelia pleasure boat sailed for nearly forty-five years. It had lost its centreboard and was deteriorating when its owner handed it over for a symbolic one euro to the Bathô workshop, which turned it into an unusual dwelling. The christening is a reminder that Trentemoult was also a village of boatbuilders, not only of fishermen and Loire pilots, and that a piece of that know-how lives on in a new form.

Rezé Mensuel n°144 (septembre 2019), p. 20 — Ville de Rezé

2 May 2019

La Civelle, a well-known restaurant on the Trentemoult quay, reopened on Thursday 2 May 2019. Its first-floor kitchen had burned down on the night of 16–17 November 2018. After five months of work involving twelve trades, everything was refreshed: the façade was repainted white, the mural of a boat carrying glass eels across the Loire was redone identically by Nantes artist Élodie Lechevallier, and the large upstairs room, the former dance hall, now opens onto the kitchen through a glass roof. The menu still centres on Loire and Atlantic fish delivered by a Rezé fish merchant. The reopening came with three concerts, from Thursday to Saturday.

Presse Océan / Nantes.maville.com

24 October 2017

In 2017 Télénantes devoted several episodes of "Chez vous" to Trentemoult: lanes, colourful houses, the harbour café and Hangar du Pendule.

Télénantes

Summer 1990

Catherine Deneuve, Richard Bohringer, Bernard Giraudeau and Jean Carmet shoot Jean-Loup Hubert's film on the quays. Some sets remain, like the "Confort Moderne" shopfront.

Centre d'histoire du travail (iconothèque)