In Place du Bouffay in the centre of Nantes, a man steps sideways into midair. The bronze statue is Éloge du pas de côté (Ode to Sidestepping). It has become a symbol of the city. As I look up at the suit-clad gentleman, his half-suspended stance is disorienting—and that’s the point. The Nantais are bold and free-thinking, from a statue such as this to a 12-metre-tall mechanical pachyderm lumbering along the Loire. Near the mouth of France’s lon…
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