Brivet

The Brivet is a river of Loire-Atlantique, the last tributary of the the Loire, crossing the Marshes of Large Brière.

Its source is not known: high Brivet appears in the wet and drained meadows small sedimentary basin of Saint-Gildas-of-Wood - Campbon. Consultation of chart IGN to the 1/25 000 watch which Brivet starts to exist under this name, as a river, slightly in the North-West of the hamlet of My, in Holy-Anne-on-Brivet. At this place, one sees it already broad with the paces of channel. It is that its water comes moreover higher and was gathered in this point by a radiant and rectilinear canal system tracing their range in the middle of a space located between Drefféac, Saint-Gildas-of-Wood and Holy-Anne-on-Brivet. Which of these channels, that of the Quarry, that of the Fleur, or the Joseph channel, can be regarded as the " père" of Brivet? The answer for the moment is not known, but they all are surely " fathers of Brivet". Thus Brivet would be one of the very few rivers of France, which do not have a source, but tens.

Brivet crosses the Furrow of Brittany by a deep notch, with Pontchâteau, and flows in the Marshes of Large Brière, to emerge in the estuary of the the Loire.

The banks of this river were inhabited since Prehistory, as the many discoveries testify some to boats and tools of the Neolithic era in the mud towards Holy-Anne-on-Brivet or towards its current mouth with Méan (commune of Trignac), upstream of Saint-Nazaire.

Its old blocked divagations created a natural port of damping = Penhoet , current district of Saint-Nazaire, which was attended Bronze Age at the time Gallo-Roman, and in which certain authors wanted to see Brivates Portus , named by the ancient authors, according to the archaeological discoveries made at the time of the construction of the wearing of Saint Nazaire and the extensions of the Building sites of the Atlantic. During important work of clearing out of Brivet, many boats monoxyles or in adjusted boards were discovered in the years 1980 - 1990, confirming by there the former discoveries.

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