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PROMOTING THE HERITAGE OF THE LOIRE

Through exhibitions, artistic and cultural projects, publication of works, the association Les Anneaux de la Mémoire begins a temporal journey back to the bed of Loire history. Since its launch in the spring of 2013, "Loire des Lumières", supported by the Pays de la Loire Region, has already aroused the interest of many partners: actors from the private and public sectors, historians, professionals in culture, tourism and heritage, artists, elected officials or ambitious citizens for the Loire region. The “Loire des Lumières” program promises to enliven the shores of the royal river – towns, villages, heritage sites.

Loire des Lumières is a program to enhance the tangible and intangible heritage of the Loire territories, started in 2013. inhabitants of the Loire Valley.

The material heritage is immense and multifaceted, natural and built. Intangible heritage is so culturally rich that it becomes part of a form of civilization. These elements can be mobilized to offer the population of the Loire the assets – image, attractiveness, identity, quality of life, reflection and intellectual wealth – which will guarantee economic and cultural progress.

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Loire des Lumières projects and actions
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EXHIBITION - Cotton, the conquest of the World 

December 2021 - May 2022 at the Museum of Art and History of Cholet

We invite you on a journey from the Americas to the territories of the Loire, an ascent on the cotton roads, the upheaval that its arrival causes in the manufacture of textiles and their uses. Cotton is one of the symbols of globalization and capitalism as our societies have known it since the 17th century. Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade had a central role in the production of cotton and the rise of capitalism. The exhibition will highlight this articulation between the local and the international through, in particular, objects, artefacts and archives.

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SYMPOSIUM - Memories of the Civil Wars

Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12 June 2019 - Cholet University Campus

In partnership with the Museums of Cholet, the University of Nantes, the Catholic University of the West.

Memorial issues, from the constitution of collective memories to the duty of remembrance, are themes that punctuate the news of our societies and come to answer deep questions related to transmission, construction, identities. This multidisciplinary symposium is part of an approach to understanding the past in order to shed new and different light on these questions.

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EXHIBITION - A monument of memory

April 27 to November 3, 2019 at the Museum of Art and History of Cholet.

October 1793. General Bonchamps, mortally wounded, orders the release of 5,000 Republican prisoners in Saint-Florent-le-Vieil. Thirty years later, David d'Angers, son of a Republican who fought in the Vendée, sculpted the funerary monument of Bonchamps. Should the gesture of the Vendée chef immortalized in marble by a young artist on the rise be seen as an emblem of reconciliation? The exhibition invites you to travel through two centuries of history, to discover the issues surrounding this masterpiece works and reveals the lives of these two exceptional figures.

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PUBLICATION - After the war

June 2019, preface by Emmanuel Furei, authors: Véronique Boidard, Anne Rolland-Boulestreau, Marc-Édouard Gautier, Patrick Le Nouëne and Éric Morin.

The monuments carry within them a sensitive memory… The tomb of the Vendée general Bonchamps is one of these. A major masterpiece of the Republican sculptor David d'Angers (1788-1855), it was erected in the small town on the banks of the Loire of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, the scene of bloody episodes of the Vendée wars._cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Intended for a wide audience, the book reconciles scientific requirements and accessible and enlightening texts.

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EXHIBITION - From the banks of the Loire to Turtle Island

From March to October 2015 at the Sainte-Barbe chapel in Chalonnes-sur-Loire and from April 16 to May 29 at the Hôtel des Pénitentes in Angers.

​ The exhibition “From the banks of the Loire to Turtle Island” illustrates the historical links that unite the West Indies and Anjou, from the 17th to the 19th century. It invites visitors - citizens, schoolchildren and national tourists - to reclaim the history of these regions separated by the Atlantic Ocean, but linked by a common past.

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PUBLICATION - The Loire and Atlantic trade, 17-18th century

Publication of 2016, the Cahier des Anneaux de la Mémoire n°16 is part of the program to promote the heritage of the Loire led by the association "Loire des Lumières".

Are Orléans, Tours or Angers Atlantic cities? The question is surprising. Indeed, if Nantes, French capital of the slave trade, owes a good part of its development to the rise of Atlantic trade in the 17th and 18th centuries, what about the towns and provinces in the interior of the kingdom? crossed by the Loire and its tributaries?

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Colloque - Mémoires des guerres civiles

mardi 11 et mercredi 12 juin 2019 - Cholet, campus universitaire

Mémoires des guerres civiles - Filiation, construction, instrumentalisation des mémoires

En partenariat avec l'agglomération du Choletais, l'Université de Nantes, l'Université catholique de l'Ouest (Angers)

Ce colloque souhaite mettre en avant des recherches actuelles sur la thématique de la constitution et de la transmission d’une mémoire collective, en partant de l’exemple de la Révolution française et des guerres de Vendée, à travers la pluralité des disciplines scientifiques : histoire, histoire de l’art, sociologie, ethnologie, littérature.

Exposition - Un monument de mémoire - Bonchamps par David d'Angers

Du 27 avril au 04 novembre 2019 - Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Cholet

En 1793, au cœur de la guerre de Vendée, le général Bonchamps, blessé à mort, ordonne la libération de 5000 prisonniers républicains à Saint-Florent- le-Vieil. 30 ans plus tard David d’Angers, fils d’un républicain ayant combattu en Vendée, sculpte le tombeau de Bonchamps. Le geste du chef vendéen, immortalisé dans le marbre par un jeune artiste en pleine ascension, devient un emblème de réconciliation. L’exposition invite à parcourir deux siècles d’Histoire, à découvrir les enjeux autour de ce chef d’œuvre et révèle l’histoire de ces deux figures d’exception…

Conférence - Loire et Pacification

Vendredi 9 février 2018 à 18h30 - Hôtel de Ville - Saint Sébastien sur Loire

Par Anne Rolland-Boulestreau - Maitre de conférences en histoire moderne à l'Université catholique d'Angers, spécialiste de la Révolution et de la Contre-révolution.

Après l’épisode tragique des colonnes infernales de Turreau, la Convention nationale et le Comité de salut public, chargent les généraux, dont Louis-Antoine Vimeux, de mettre fin à la Guerre civile. Certains des officiers subalternes de ce dernier sont mandatés pour descendre la Loire en bateau et rencontrer les troupes vendéennes qui combattent encore autour des rives du fleuve. La Loire devient ainsi un lieu de rencontre et de petits traités de pacification y sont parfois signés. Le rôle qu’a pu jouer la Loire, dernier lieu de contact possible avec les vendéens insurgés, est un aspect méconnu de la guerre de Vendée.

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Anne Rolland-Boulestreau est maître de conférences à l’université catholique de l’Ouest, spécialiste de la Révolution et de la Contre-révolution. Elle publie en 2016 chez Fayard «Les colonnes infernales».

Rencontre – Avec l’écrivain Yves Viollier

Vendredi 15 septembre 2017 à 18h30 – Bibliothèque de Varades - Loireauxence

Rencontre et échange avec l’écrivain Yves Viollier, auteur de L’instant de grâce, publié en 2016 aux éditions Robert Laffont. Le récit retrace la création du tombeau de Bonchamps par David d’Angers, à la croisée de l’histoire et de l’imaginaire. Yves Viollier nous parle de son travail d’écrivain, de ses recherches sur l’artiste et le général vendéen et de l’écriture d’un roman d’histoire.
Entrée libre et gratuite.

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