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plants. This clandestine trade became so flourishing that they had to engage in massive importation. Companies trading in fake snuffboxes, involving all layers of island society, were created to regulate the traffic. The
280:: 778-1204, Mougon, Geste éd., coll. «Histoire», 1995, 303 p., ill., couv. ill. en coul. ; 24 cm (ISBN 2-910919-09-9, ISSN 1269-9454, notice BnF no FRBNF35804152), p. 54 62: 197:, assassinated on 13 July 1793. In the 14th century, the island benefited from island franchises, favourable to the development of 360: 355: 289:"Bouin, sea island in the middle of the land" by Thomas GISBERT-GUINGUENE de CALLAC, Éditions de l 'Etrave, 2003 350: 253: 190:
and by the French in 1471 (the town was Breton at the time) during the wars between Brittany and France.
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During the Vendée Wars, the island was renamed "Ile Marat" by the revolutionaries in homage to
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that increased the land area inland of the Bay of Bourgneuf.
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to the north to bring back "good" tobacco, then stored in
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Christophe Tassin
46°58′40″N 2°00′25″W / 46.97778°N 2.00694°W / 46.97778; -2.00694
Pays de la Loire
Vendée
French
marsh
Bouin
dyke
Breton Marsh
storm surges
reclamation
island
Vikings
813
Jean-Paul Marat
contraband
Île d'Yeu
tobacco
boats
flotillas
warehouses
Bishopric of Nantes
Poitou
Brittany
department
Loire-Inferior
Nantes
southern
digital copy

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