On Wednesday, chairman of the
Saint-Nazaire Society Nick Beattie travelled from Buckinghamshire for the plaque unveiling in Llandaff.
Sunderland and
Saint-Nazaire, a major port and shipbuilding centre on France's Atlantic coast, have been twinned since 1953.
is is the sixth consecutive year that Wearside companies have taken part in the programme for students from
Saint-Nazaire, the city's twin town.
Inspired by
Saint-Nazaire's recent history of maritime industry, port
Leslie Schuster's study of the ship-building port of
Saint-Nazaire, 1880-1910, is something of a throw-back to a spate of labor-history books published on individual cities and towns during the 1970s and 1980s, challenging the applicability of the conclusions of some of them to her case study.
Andrea Klose, press officer for
Saint-Nazaire, said, 'In France rugby is traditionally played in the south-western part of the country and Brittany is not exactly identified with that sport.
This study focuses on the adaptation of worker-peasants to shipbuilding employment in
Saint-Nazaire after 1881.