Le Croisic

Resort that's home to Océarium Croisic - a sea life center with sharks, turtles & exotic fish, including an underwater tunnel. In a medieval French legend recounted during the funeral of Anne of Brittany in 1514, Le Croisic was the scene of a story which explained the origin of the use of ermine in heraldry. In the story, Anne's supposed ancestor Innogen, the daughter of Greek king Pandrasus and wife of Brutus of Troy (from Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudo-history Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136)), was attending a hunt at Le Croisic, when a stoat being pursued by Brutus' dogs took refuge with her. Innogen saved and fed it, and adoped 'ermine' for the family's coat of arms.