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On the 4 October 1785, in the Saint Similien"s church in Nantes, Louis and Mathurin Crucy married sisters Françoise and Marie Françoise Le Roux. Constant Douillard (born in 1795) is considered a rather important architect in Nantes: he designed some of the hospitals of Loire-Inférieure, notably Saint Jacques General Hospital in Nantes, and the place du Sanitat in the same town. The Crucy shipyard was located at Basse-Indre in the commune of Indre.
lieutenant was visited by Napoleon when he came in Nantes in 1808.
After the failure, it was abandoned until 1821, when it was sold to a group of British investors who between 1822 and 1824, created there a steel facility, which was to be knowh as the Forges de Basse-Indre (still existing nowadays, as Arcelor Packaging).
