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from the Atlantic coast. The city is the 6th largest in France, with a metropolitan area of about 900,000 inhabitants. - Source: Wikipedia

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FILE - Supporters gather to pay tribute to Argentinian soccer player Emiliano Sala prior the French League One soccer match between Nantes against Bordeaux at La Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, western France, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)

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People line up as they wait to cast their ballot during the second round of France's municipal elections in Paris, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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Nantes fans wait for the start of the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Reims at the Stade de la Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, France, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Nantes coach Pierre Aristouy, who salvaged the eight-time French champion from relegation last season, was fired on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

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Nantes' Mostafa Mohamed celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Monaco in Nantes, France, Sunday, April 9, 2023. French soccer club Nantes fined striker Mostafa Mohamed for refusing to play against Toulouse on Sunday, when teams across the country wore rainbow-colored numbers on their jerseys this weekend to support the fight against homophobia. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

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Nantes' head coach Antoine Kombouare, centre, reacts during the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Monaco at the Stade de la Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, France, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

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Nantes' Ludovic Blas kicks the ball during the French Cup final soccer match between Nice and Nantes at the Stade de France stadium, in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Blas and his teammates are returning to the Stade de France on Saturday to take on Toulouse in another French Cup final. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

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Fire fighters brigade work to extinguish the blaze at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, western France, Saturday, July 18, 2020. The fire broke, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke spewing from between its two towers of the 15th century, which also suffered a serious fire in 1972. The fire is bringing back memories of the devastating blaze in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last year that destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire and threatened to topple the medieval monument. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, a Nantes soccer team supporters stops by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France. On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, the man leading a private search for the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala says the wreckage has been found. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

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A van stands by the Geo Ocean III specialist search vessel docked in Portland, England, which is carrying a body recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, Thursday Feb. 7, 2019. The aircraft remains 67 metres underwater 21 miles off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel as poor weather conditions stopped recovery efforts. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

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Flowers and tributes are placed near a giant picture of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala outside the FC Nantes training camp, in Nantes, western France, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, after a plane with Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. Sobbing after the active search for her brother was halted, the sister of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala urged authorities Thursday not to give up trying to find the remains of his plane that disappeared from radar over the English Channel. (AP Photo)

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Flowers and tributes are placed outside Cardiff City Football Club, Wales, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019, after a plane with new signing Emiliano Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. The search resumed Wednesday to find missing Emiliano Sala and his pilot with authorities in the Channel Islands prioritizing whether they have been unable to make contact after more than 36 hours having managed to land, been picked up by a ship or are still on a lifeboat. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

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In this his picture taken on Jan. 14, 2018, Argentine soccer player, Emiliano Sala, of the FC Nantes club, western France, gives a thumbs up during a soccer match against PSG in Nantes, France. The French civil aviation authority says Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Caen's forward Emiliano Sala celebrates scoring against Marseille during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Caen, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France. The French civil aviation authority said Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019, Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. French and British maritime authorities are searching the English Channel for the plane. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

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Police officers guard the van that crashed into a French Christmas market in Nantes, western France, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. France’s top security official says the driver stabbed himself several times after the incident. Eleven people including the driver were injured in the accident, which happened at a busy market full of holiday shoppers. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

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