The town of Rennes in Brittany, situated…

The town of Rennes in Brittany, situated at the confluence of the Ille and Vilaine rivers, in 1720 loses all the timber framed houses in the northern part of the city to fire.

The city is rebuilt from a grid plan that gives it wide, regular streets and a main axis running east and west along the canalized Vilaine.

The rebuilding is done in stone.