Figures of Trentemoult

• Marc Elder (1884-1933)

  Writer, winner of the 1913 Prix Goncourt for Le Peuple de la mer, ahead of Alain-Fournier and Proust.

• Talma Bertrand (1872-1954)

  Naval architect; his yacht Mac Miche won gold at the Stockholm Games (1912).

• Dr Henri Zeiler (1908-1986)

  A Jewish doctor deported to Auschwitz in 1942 despite a petition from 344 residents; he came back and took up his practice again.

• Marcel Boissard

  A resistance fighter, arrested on the quay that now bears his name, shot in 1943.

• Edmond Bertreux (1911-1991)

  Painter of the Loire and of the village as it was.

• Yves Marion (1936-2007)

  Prix de Rome, painter of the Cour du Miracle.

• Henri Landreau

  He revived the veuze, the bagpipe of the Nantes country, and co-founded An Namnediz.

• Jean Breteau (1945-2019)

  Historian of the port of Nantes and of Trentemoult.

• Annie Lebeaupin

  Architect, behind the colourful façades.

• Women of the neighbourhood

  While the men were at sea they kept the village going; later they were elected (Ginette Blandin, Danièle Daunis-Féraut).

• Jean-Pierre Lévy (1947-2024)

  Sculptor of monumental stone fruit.

• Jean-Baptiste Codet (1900-1991)

  Born and died at 5 quai Surcouf; an officer on the liner Normandie when it won the Blue Riband in 1935.

Sources: Rezé Histoire no. 97 (April 2026), “3 walks to understand Trentemoult”, Rezé Histoire association – rezehistoire.fr. Texts rewritten by trentemoult.com; for more, get the magazine.