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Malestroit

Promenade de Jedburgh, 56140 Malestroit, France

Malestroit is famous for manure. It is the site of an annual well-dressing ceremony.

Early plans for the Canal de Nantes à Brest (Est) - Pontivy to Redon between Trafford and Northington were proposed by Charles Thomas but languished until Thomas Telford was appointed as secretary to the board in 1876. Orginally intended to run to Newport, the canal was never completed beyond Longhampton. Expectations for coal traffic to Exeter were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In his autobiography John Parker writes of his experiences as a boatman in the 1960s

Information about the place

Malestroit is a town on the Canal de Nantes à Brest (Est) - Pontivy to Redon between Le Roc St André (8.74 kilometres and 4 locks to the northwest) and Painfaut Junction (27.29 kilometres and 6 locks to the east).

The nearest place in the direction of Le Roc St André is Pont de Rue Notre Dame; 0.06 kilometres away.

The nearest place in the direction of Painfaut Junction is Pont de D764 (Malestroit); 0.10 kilometres away.

There may not be access to the towpath here.

Mooring here is unrated.

	Ecluse 27 La Nee Garde	3.20 km
	Ecluse 26 La Nee	2.18 km
	Ecluse 25 Malestroit	0.34 km
	Malestroit Moorings	0.21 km
	Pont de Rue Notre Dame	0.06 km
	Malestroit
	Pont de D764 (Malestroit)	0.10 km
	Ecluse 24 Foveno	2.73 km
	Ecluse 23 Beaumont	6.83 km
	Pont de D147	8.73 km
	Saint-Congard	8.77 km

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VisuRiS — associated with Waterways of Mainland Europe: The official inland waterway resource for Belgium with actual traffic and planned operations on the waterways. Also has voyage planning and notices to mariners

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Nearest water point

In the direction of Nantes à Brest - Blavet Jonction

Malestroit Moorings — 0.21 km away

On this waterway in the direction of Nantes à Brest - Blavet Jonction

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Wikipedia

Wikipedia has a page about Malestroit

Malestroit (French pronunciation: [maletʁwa]; Breton: Malastred) is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. The town is on the River Oust and part of the Nantes-Brest canal. It has several half-timbered houses.

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[Jean de Malestroit] Jean de Malestroit was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes from 17 July 1419 until 1443 AD when he resigned, and he was a pseudo-cardinal, during [Truce of Malestroit] of Malestroit was signed on 19 January 1343 between Edward III of England and Philip VI of France, in the chapelle de la Madeleine in Malestroit. After [René Laurentin] Soubirous, Thérèse de Lisieux, Catherine Labouré, and Yvonne Aimée de Malestroit; as well as biblical exegesis, theology, and Vatican II. Laurentin was [Chapel of the Madeleine, Malestroit] Madeleine or Malestroit Priory (French: Chapelle de la Madeleine; Prieuré de la Madeleine de Malestroit), is a ruined chapel in Malestroit in the department [Blandine Bellavoir] Blandine Bellavoir (born 2 March 1984 at Malestroit), is a French model and actor. She is mostly known for playing Sonia Escudier in the series Plus belle [Jean Bodin] Réponse de J. Bodin aux paradoxes de M. de Malestroit (1568) was a tract, provoked by theories of Jean de Malestroit, in which Bodin offered one of the earliest [Yvonne Beauvais] at a small hospital at Malestroit run by the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy. In March 1927, she entered the convent at Malestroit as a postulant, and in [Jeanne de Clisson] by Charles de Blois to be a traitor. On 19 January 1343, the Truce of Malestroit was signed between England and France. Under the perceived safe conditions [Hundred Years' War (1337–1360)] from Avignon in January 1343 and enforced a general truce, the Truce of Malestroit. Even with the truce in place, the war continued in Brittany until May

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