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From the origin to the year 1000
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 Le Tumulus des Mousseaux, entrée du dolmen vers 1900  Le Tumulus des Mousseaux de nos jours  Le drakkar, bateau de vikings | 5000 B.C.
The prehistorical man in this ultimate mesolithic period lives in the cliffs of Sainte Marie.
4000/3500 B.C.
Many megalithic monuments get erected by the neolithic man along the seashore (burial site). One example: the tumulus of Les Mousseaux.
56 B.C.
The Roman legions and Julius Caesar are nearby Pornic and join this region to the Aquitaine.
Around 600/700
A vicus is created in Le Clion sur Mer (first community).
After 700
A priory is built by the monks of Saint Philbert in Sainte Marie
712
The Saracens are in the bay.
799
The Vikings are now present.
800
The Pornic area is integrated to the county of Herbauges.
After 830
A castrum is built probably in order to defend the estuary of Haute Perche.
851
Erispoe takes over the Pays de Retz joining Brittany.
937-942
Alain Barbetorte chases the Vikings to Pornic and gets the sovereignty of the Pays d'Herbauges. The city takes slowly shape.
Source: "PORNIC - Etoile et Reine" by Dominique PIERRELEE, Ed. SILOË, Laval, 1998
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