Emmanuelle Petit provides a more contemporary view of the city of Nantes than than the authors we looked in previous posts, Gracq or Rossi. In Petit;s 2010 police novel, Elle n'était pas Marilyn . The key theme is one of setting off into new and unknown ways of living coupled with a slightly wistful look at the ways of life that will be lost. This theme is grounded in two places that Petit uses in the story and which can be easily identified and visited today. Capitaine Dubreuil crosses the Loire The first scene occurs very early in the novel (Petit 2010, 12) when the main police detective, Capitaine Dubreuil crosses the Anne de Bretagne bridge in his car and stops at La pointe de l'Île de Nantes beneath a large grey coloured crane, ‘sous la grue grise’ (Petit 2010, 12). Dubreuil likes to come to this point to think, he can see out along the river Loire to the bridge, Le Pont de Cheviré. Pont de Cheviré was inaugurated in 1991 and creates a link in the Atlantic Arc so th
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