Editing Nantes (section)

==={{anchor|Nantes in the arts}}In the arts===
[[File:JMW Turner - Nantes from the Ile Feydeau.jpg|thumb|alt=Watercolour painting of Nantes, with large buildings and many small boats|J. M. W. Turner's ''Nantes from the Ile Feydeau'' (1829–30)]]
Nantes has been described as the birthplace of [[surrealism]], since [[André Breton]] (leader of the movement) met [[Jacques Vaché]] there in 1916.{{sfn|Pétré-Grenouilleau|2008|p=200}} In ''[[Nadja (novel)|Nadja]]'' (1928), André Breton called Nantes "perhaps with Paris the only city in France where I have the impression that something worthwhile may happen to me".{{sfn|J. H. Matthews|1986|p=52}} Fellow surrealist [[Julien Gracq]] wrote ''[[The Shape of a City]]'', published in 1985, about the city. Nantes also inspired [[Stendhal]] (in his 1838 ''Mémoires d'un touriste''); [[Gustave Flaubert]] (in his 1881 ''Par les champs et par les grèves'', where he describes his journey through [[Brittany]]); [[Henry James]], in his 1884 ''[[A Little Tour in France]]''; [[André Pieyre de Mandiargues]] in ''Le Musée noir'' (1946), and [[Paul-Louis Rossi]] in ''Nantes'' (1987).{{sfn|Au fil des pages de "Nantes dans la littérature"}}

The city is the hometown of [[French New Wave]] film director [[Jacques Demy]]. Two of Demy's films were set and shot in Nantes: ''[[Lola (1961 film)|Lola]]'' (1964) and ''[[Une chambre en ville|A Room in Town]]'' (1982). The [[Passage Pommeraye]] appears briefly in ''[[The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]]''. Other films set (or filmed) in Nantes include ''[[God's Thunder]]'' by [[Denys de La Patellière]] (1965), ''[[The Married Couple of the Year Two]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Rappeneau]] (1971), ''[[Day Off (film)|Day Off]]'' by [[Pascal Thomas]] (2001) and ''[[Black Venus (2010 film)|Black Venus]]'' by [[Abdellatif Kechiche]] (2010). [[Jean-Luc Godard]]'s ''[[Keep Your Right Up]]'' was filmed at its airport in 1987.{{sfn|Dictionnaire de Nantes|2013|pp=238–239}}

Nantes appears in a number of songs, the best-known to non-French audiences being 2007's "Nantes" by the American band [[Beirut (band)|Beirut]]. French-language songs include "Nantes" by [[Barbara (singer)|Barbara]] (1964) and "Nantes" by [[Renan Luce]] (2009). The city is mentioned in about 50 folk songs, making it the most-sung-about city in France after [[Paris]]. "Dans les prisons de Nantes" is the most popular, with versions recorded by [[Édith Piaf]], [[Georges Brassens]], [[Tri Yann]] and [[Nolwenn Leroy]]. Other popular folk songs include "Le pont de Nantes" (recorded by [[Guy Béart]] in 1967 and [[Nana Mouskouri]] in 1978), "Jean-François de Nantes" (a [[sea shanty]]) and the bawdy "De Nantes à Montaigu".{{sfn|Dictionnaire de Nantes|2013|p=203}}

British painter [[J. M. W. Turner]] visited Nantes in 1826 as part of a journey in the Loire Valley, and later painted a watercolour view of Nantes from Feydeau Island. The painting was bought by the city in 1994, and is on exhibit at the Historical Museum in the castle.{{sfn|Sur les traces|2014}} An engraving of this work was published in The Keepsake annual for 1831, with an illustrative poem entitled {{ws|[[s:Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Keepsake, 1831/The Return|The Return]]}} by [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]]. Turner also made two sketches of the city, which are in collections at [[Tate Britain]].{{sfn|Hervouët|2014}}