Recouvrance,_Brest

Recouvrance, Brest

Recouvrance, Brest

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For other uses, see Recouvrance (disambiguation).

Recouvrance is the section of the city of Brest, France, on the right bank of the River Penfeld. The popular and historically-Breton quarter is in contrast to the largely-Francophone quarter of Brest-même or Brest-proper, on the left bank.

The church of Saint-Sauveur in Recouvrance, the oldest parish church in Brest[1]

The lift bridge over the Penfeld was named after this neighbourhood, as was a schooner that was built in 1992 in the city.

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    Jean-Louis Auffret, Brest d'hier à demain, Éditions Cloître, mars 2002, Saint-Thonan France, (ISBN 2910981657), page 25

48°23′18″N 4°30′01″W

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