Following the steps taken by Mr. Jean-Luc Losfeld, the City of Nantes confirms to the Amicale Philatélique de Nantes its support for the project to host the first day of the stamp celebrating the memory of the biologist Lucie Randoin. La Baule, Guérande and other towns in the Loire Atlantique department could also carry out educational, philatelic and philanthropic actions to celebrate the qualitative contribution of this great scientist to the development of nutrition-health and the food, biotechnology and food safety.
The Nantes region is rich in its market gardening but also in its historic cannery activities (Arsène Saupiquet, Léopold Cassegrain, Jean-Claude Bonduelle). Guérande salt reminds us that the saulniers, the salt farmers, were for several centuries the richest farmers in France. Likewise, the historic fishing sectors of Rezé and Trentemoult have maintained transatlantic links through cod and the riches of the sea (Quinton plasma, cod and whaling industry, extraction of marine minerals).
The future University Hospital of the island of Nantes currently under construction will include a Lucie Randoin alley following a municipal deliberation of the city of Nantes, the references of which are given below.
The work of this scientist with a very atypical career has made it possible to develop the sectors of the territory between land and sea, the historical contributions of which Nantes Patrimonia has detailed to transform the Banana Shed into a place of innovation for nutrition and health until the 1960s. : https://patrimonia.nantes.fr/home/decouvre/themes-et-quartiers/hangar-a-bananes.html.
“Fort Carillon” and the banana cargo ships of the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique have for a long time roamed the Quai des Antilles to unload exotic fruits rich in vitamins and magnesium. Until the 1970s, bananas arriving by boat from Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guinea and Ivory Coast were stored and allowed to ripen. Several nutritionists were interested in the role of passing the baton of this space as a nutrition-health laboratory.
A scientist played a decisive role in breaking down the barriers to innovation in this field: Lucie Randoin
The hygienic work of this biologist has encouraged the importance of selective sectors in search of natural products. His research, for example, encouraged the Newfoundlanders of Trentemoult to promote cod liver oil and to develop Norwegian salmon fishing.
Furthermore and in the same direction, Lucie Randoin has carried out numerous works in Loire Atlantique, notably on Guérande salt, marine minerals and more particularly in resonance with the field of nutrition and supply chains in Nantes (banana shed , import of cassava flour from Madagascar).
Its regional influence was highlighted in the columns of Ouest France: https://vannes.maville.com/actu/actudet_-la-roche-bernard.-il-lance-un-appel-pour-un-timbre-al- effigy-of-lucie-randoin-_-5307088_actu.Htm
Bridges were able to develop with industrial research and innovation players interested in Lucie Randoin's work. This field of exchange mainly concerned: health, nutrition and biotechnologies but could also be extended to broader deeptech applications in the context of the 2025 Universal Exhibition.
Kevin Lognoné
