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The Blanche (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ] ) is a tributary of the left bank of the Acheneau and thus a sub-tributary of the Loire.

Buzay Abbey, dedicated to Our Lady, was a Cistercian Abbey at Rouans in Pays de la Loire, France, formerly in Brittany, founded in 1135 and dissolved in 1790.

The Acheneau (French pronunciation: [aʃno]) is a French river in the Loire-Atlantique Department, in the Pays de la Loire region, a tributary on the left bank of the Loire which is fed by the Lac de Grand-Lieu.

Le Pellerin (French pronunciation: [lə pɛlʁɛ̃] ; Breton: Pentelloù) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

La Gerbetière is a mansion in the Couëron commune of the Loire-Atlantique département, France. It was the residence of John James Audubon in his youth.

Port-Saint-Père (French pronunciation: [pɔʁ sɛ̃ pɛʁ] ; Breton: Porzh-Pêr) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Planète Sauvage (French pronunciation: [pla.nɛt so.vaʒ], Wild Planet in English) is a zoological park situated in the French Atlantic coast, in Port-Saint-Père near Nantes, in the Loire-Atlantique departement. Founded in 1992 by Monique and Dany Laurent and known as the Safari Africain until 1998, it was then operated by the Compagnie des Alpes between 2005 and 2015. Since that date the park has been the property of the multinational company Looping Group, whose main shareholder is a Belgian private equity fund of the Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. Its director is Philippe Vignaud. The park covers about 80 hectares (200 acres) of land, where almost 1,000 animals of about 150 species live, and is a blend of a safari portion visible by car and a pedestrian part which includes one of the three dolphinariums of metropolitan France, where bottlenose dolphins are presented. Since 2008 it receives between 200,000 and 322,000 visitors each year. Although not a member of the EAZA, it cooperates with researchers and finances wildlife conservation NGOs. It has been at the heart of several controversies since its opening, about a temporary human zoo in 1994, an adjourned dolphinarium project in 1998, the captivity conditions of its dolphins, which three of them have died, since 2007, and the transfer of macaques to a research laboratory practicing vivisection, in 2014.

Bethlehem Chapel (chapelle de Bethléem) is a Roman Catholic chapel, located in the French community of Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau in Loire-Atlantique, beside district road 58, between Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau and Le Pellerin. Classified as a historic monument in 1911, restored from 1993 to 1995, the chapel has pinnacles where certain newly created chimeras resemble products of American film culture and Japanese animation.

Saint-Jean-de-Boiseau (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ də bwaso] ; Breton: Sant-Yann-ar-Granneg) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It contains the historic Bethlehem Chapel.

Brains (French pronunciation: [bʁɛ̃] ; Gallo: Brâin or Brein, Breton: Brenn) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. The commune is a part of historical Brittany, in the traditional region of Retz, and in the historical region of Nantes.

Saint-Léger-les-Vignes (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ leʒe le viɲ] ; Breton: Sant-Lezer-ar-Gwiniegi) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

Couëron (French: [kwɛʁɔ̃] ; Gallo: Coéron or Couéron, Breton: Koeron) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. It is part of the historic French Brittany. Couëron is one of the 24 communes of the Nantes Métropole.