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three hundred years ago, the great fire of Rennes

On this Sunday, December 22, 1720, all is calm in Rennes. The city, one of the most important of the kingdom of France with its 40,000 inhabitants, thanks in particular to the establishment of the Parliament of Brittany in the 16th century, presents a half-timbered architecture with dense and winding streets. Rue Tristin, an artery in the city center that has now disappeared, a fire starts from a carpenter’s workshop. Quickly…

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