Sein Geschichte

Belle-île has changed a lot of his name at the course of his story. The geographer Ptolémée inscribed it on the Gaules card under the name of Vindilis who applied the island during the Roman period, al though César called Insulae Veneticae all the island subject to the Vénètes power, of the Sein's island to Noiremoutier.

The Breton, during their coming in Armorique, christened the island Guédel (Gwezel in modern breton). This name is attested as far back as 992 in a charter give to the abbey of Redon in front of the duke Geoffroy. We find its in 1006 and in 1029 beside the Latin name Bella Insula. Belle-île was equally called ar Gerveur ("the big city") in breton language.

The Citadel was build on the order of Henri II, from 1549 (Vauban was make changes to it). In 1573, Charles IX invested Albert de gondi, baron de Retz with the Belle-île's marquisate. In 1658, Gondi's family sold Belle-île for 1.3 millions of livre to Nicolas Fouquet, who never live on this island. His wife, the marchioness Madeleine of Castille, preserved it, in spite of the superintendent's displeasure, until 1704, date at which Louis XIV bought it to her.

The King rented Belle-île to the Indies's company to make it a store. The contract was canceled in 1722 and the island sold the next year to the farmers general. It counted at this time 5 000 inhabitants.

In spite of the resistance of the knight of sainte-Croix, Belle-île is fell between the hands of the British leading by the lord marshal hodgson, the 9 June 1761. It was traded for Minorque at the treaty of Paris in 1763.

In 1763, three head of the Acadian family, Honoré Leblanc, Joseph Trahan, and Simon Granger, coming to prepare the arrival of their compatriot drived from Acadie further to the treaty of Utrecht in 1713. This is how in 1765, seventy eight Acadian family setting up to Belle-île.

The Revolution sorely achieved the inhabitant of Belle-île and was been a period of poverty and unrest. In the nineteenth century, belle-île knew a relatively prosperity.

Don Pedro, ex-emperor of Portugal in exile, getting ready to reconquer his country, the Portuguese constitutional fleet mustered up from december 1831 to february 1832, under the citadel of Palais.

Under the old regime, the island lived at first the agriculture and produced colza, flax and tobacco. His sunniness allowed the farming of salt marsh and the fruit and vegetables farming; Fouquet introduced unsuccessfully the vine farming.

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