Saint-Michel-en-Grève
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Saint-Michel-en-Grève (; ) is a
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in the
Côtes-d'Armor The Côtes-d'Armor (, ; ; br, Aodoù-an-Arvor, ), formerly known as Côtes-du-Nord ( br, Aodoù-an-Hanternoz, link=no, ), are a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In 2019, it had a population of 600,582.
department of
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in northwestern
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. In 2009 huge quantities of sea lettuce seaweed (''
Ulva lactuca ''Ulva lactuca'', also known by the common name sea lettuce, is an edible green alga in the family Ulvaceae. It is the type species of the genus ''Ulva''. A synonym is ''U. fenestrata'', referring to its "windowed" or "holed" appearance. Descrip ...
'') washed up on the beach at Saint Michel. Poisonous gases resulting from its decomposition caused the death of a horse and may have been a factor in the earlier death of a cleanup crew truck driver. Image:Saint-Michel-en-Greve.jpg, The bay at Saint-Michel-en-Grève Image:Lieue-de-Greve1.JPG, Sunset over the Lieue-de-Grève


Population

Inhabitants of Saint-Michel-en-Grève are called ''michelois'' in French.


See also

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Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department The following is a list of the 348 communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Côtes-d'Armor {{CôtesArmor-geo-stub