Saint-Malo (, , ;
Gallo
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*Related to Gaul:
** Gallo-Roman culture
**Gallo language, a regional language of France
**Gallo-Romance, a branch of Romance languages
**Gallo-Italic or Gallo-Italian language, a branch spoken in Northern Italy of the Romance ...
: ; ) is a historic French port in
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019. ,
Brittany
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, on the
English Channel
The English Channel, "The Sleeve"; nrf, la Maunche, "The Sleeve" (Cotentinais) or ( Jèrriais), (Guernésiais), "The Channel"; br, Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; cy, Môr Udd, "Lord's Sea"; kw, Mor Bretannek, "British Sea"; nl, Het Kana ...
coast.
The
walled city
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had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Allies heavily bombarded Saint-Malo, which was garrisoned by German troops. The city changed into a popular tourist centre, with a ferry terminal serving the
Channel Islands
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of
Jersey
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and
Guernsey
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It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...
, as well as the
Southern English settlements of
Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is the most dens ...
,
Hampshire
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and
Poole
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,
Dorset
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.
The famous transatlantic single-handed yacht race
Route du Rhum
The Route du Rhum is a transatlantic single-handed yacht race, which takes place every four years in November. The course is between Saint Malo, Brittany, Metropolitan France
Metropolitan France (french: France métropolitaine or ''la Mé ...
, which takes place every four years in November, is between Saint Malo and
Pointe-à-Pitre in
Guadeloupe
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.
Population
The population in 2017 was 46,097
[ – though this can increase to up to 300,000 in the summer tourist season. With the suburbs included, the metropolitan area's population is approximately 133,000 (2017).
The population of the commune more than doubled in 1967 with the merging of three communes: Saint-Malo, ]Saint-Servan
Saint-Servan (often abbreviated as St. Servan; br, Sant-Servan) is a town of western France, in Brittany, situated 2 miles from the ferry port of Saint-Malo. It is renowned for its shops and restaurants.
History
In June 1758, during the Seven Ye ...
(population 14,963 in 1962) and Paramé
Paramé ( br, Parame) is a former town and commune of France on the north coast of Brittany. Paramé merged with Saint-Servan to form the commune of Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany ...
(population 8,811 in 1962).
Inhabitants of Saint-Malo are called ''Malouins'' in French. The population data in the table and graph below refer to the commune of Saint-Malo proper in its geography for the given years.[
]
History
Founded by Gaul
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s in the 1st century BC, the ancient town on the site of Saint-Malo was known as the Roman
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
Reginca or Aletum. By the late 4th century AD, the Saint-Servan
Saint-Servan (often abbreviated as St. Servan; br, Sant-Servan) is a town of western France, in Brittany, situated 2 miles from the ferry port of Saint-Malo. It is renowned for its shops and restaurants.
History
In June 1758, during the Seven Ye ...
district was the site of a major Saxon Shore promontory fort that protected the Rance
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Places
* Rance (river), northwestern France
* Rancé, a commune in eastern France, near Lyon
* Ranče, a small settlement in Slovenia
* Rance, Wallonia, part of the municipality of Sivry-Rance
** Rouge de Rance, a Devonian ...
estuary
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from seaborne raiders from beyond the frontiers. According to the ''Notitia Dignitatum
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'', the fort was garrisoned by the ''militum Martensium'' under a ''dux'' (commander) of the ''Tractus Armoricanus and Nervicanus'' section of the ''litus Saxonicum''. During the decline of the Western Roman Empire
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, Armorica
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(modern-day Brittany) rebelled from Roman rule under the Bagaudae and in the 5th and 6th centuries received many Celtic Britons
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fleeing instability across the Channel. The modern Saint-Malo traces its origins to a monastic
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settlement founded by Saint Aaron
Aaron of Aleth (died after 552), also called ''Saint Aihran'' or ''Eran'' in Breton, was a sixth-century hermit, monk and abbot at a monastery on Cézembre, a small island near Aleth, opposite Saint-Malo in Brittany, France. Some sources sugges ...
and Saint Brendan
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early in the sixth century. Its name is derived from a man said to have been a follower of Brendan the Navigator
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, Saint Malo or Maclou, an immigrant from what is now Wales
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.
Saint-Malo is the setting of Marie de France
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's poem "Laüstic "Laüstic", also known as "Le Rossignol", "Le Laustic", "Laostic", and "Aüstic", is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France. The title comes from the Breton word for "nightingale" (''eostig''), a symbolic figure in the poem.Marie de Franc ...
," a 12th-century love story. The city had a tradition of asserting its autonomy in dealings with the French authorities and even with the local Breton authorities. From 1590 to 1593, Saint-Malo declared itself to be an independent republic, taking the motto "not French, not Breton, but Malouin."
Saint-Malo became notorious as the home of the corsairs, French privateers
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and sometimes pirates. In the 19th century, this "piratical" notoriety was portrayed in Jean Richepin
Jean Richepin (; 4 February 1849 – 12 December 1926) was a French poet, novelist and dramatist.
Biography
Son of an army doctor, Jean Richepin was born 4 February 1849 at Médéa, French Algeria.
At school and at the École Normale Supé ...
's play ''Le flibustier'' and in César Cui
César Antonovich Cui ( rus, Це́зарь Анто́нович Кюи́, , ˈt͡sjezərʲ ɐnˈtonəvʲɪt͡ɕ kʲʊˈi, links=no, Ru-Tsezar-Antonovich-Kyui.ogg; french: Cesarius Benjaminus Cui, links=no, italic=no; 13 March 1918) was a Ru ...
's eponymous opera. The corsairs of Saint-Malo not only forced English ships passing up the Channel to pay tribute but also brought wealth from further afield. Jacques Cartier lived in, and sailed from, Saint-Malo to the Saint Lawrence River
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, visiting the villages of Stadacona
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History
French explorer and navigator Jacques Cartier, while travelling and charting the Saint Lawrence River, reached the village o ...
and Hochelaga that would later become the sites of present-day Quebec City
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and Montreal
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respectively. As the first European to encounter these sites and learning the local word "Kanata" (meaning a group of houses), Cartier is credited as the discoverer of Canada
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.
Inhabitants of Saint-Malo are called ''Malouins'' in French. From this came the Spanish name for the ''Islas Malvinas
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'', the archipelago
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known in English as the Falkland Islands. Islas Malvinas derives from the 1764 name ''Îles Malouines'', given to the islands by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (, , ; 12 November 1729 – August 1811) was a French admiral and explorer. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he took part in the Seven Years' War in North America and the American Revolution ...
.[ Bougainville, who founded the archipelago's first settlement, named the islands after the inhabitants of Saint-Malo, the point of departure for his ships and colonists.][
In 1758, the Raid on Saint-Malo saw a British expedition land, intending to capture the town. However, the British made no attempt on Saint-Malo and instead occupied the nearby town of Saint-Servan, where they destroyed 30 ]privateers
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before departing.
World War II
In World War II
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, during fighting in late August and early September 1944, the historic walled city of Saint-Malo was almost totally destroyed by fires lit by German troops as well as American shelling and bombing. The beaches of nearby Dinard
Dinard (; br, Dinarzh, ; Gallo: ''Dinard'') is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department, Brittany, northwestern France.
Dinard is on the Côte d'Émeraude of Brittany. Its beaches and mild climate make it a holiday destination, and this ...
had been heavily fortified against possible Allied commando raids. Artillery at the two locations provided mutual support. The fortification complex was garrisoned by more than twelve thousand German troops from different services and units as well as stragglers from other battles in the Cotentin
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. About eight thousand Germans were in Saint-Malo itself when the battle began.
Colonel Andreas von Aulock
Andreas Maria Karl von Aulock (23 March 1893 – 23 June 1968) was a highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 79th Infantry Division. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Le ...
, the German commander, refused to surrender when asked to do so by the town's authorities. He said he "would defend St. Malo to the last man even if the last man had to be himself".
The first American attack was launched by the 83rd Infantry Division on 5 August 1944. German positions at Châteauneuf quickly fell. Cancale was abandoned and occupied by the Americans on the 6th. In the same way and on the same day, Dinan
Dinan (; ) is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.
Geography
Its geographical setting is exceptional. Instead o ...
fell to Free French
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forces. The Germans shortened their lines and drew closer to the ancient citadel at St. Servan-sur-Mer, now reinforced with concrete.
Effective German artillery emplacements on the island of Cezembre were out of reach of American ground forces. German garrisons on the Channel Islands of Jersey
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, Guernsey
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, and Alderney
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The island's area is , making it the third-largest ...
were able to use small craft to bring in water and remove the wounded from the battle.
On 13 August, the walled city was on fire and a short truce was declared to allow French civilians to flee the city. Outlying German positions at St. Ideuc and La Varde fell to infantry attacks. This fighting ended resistance on the north shore of the peninsula. Only the citadel remained. Surrounded by American artillery and under frequent air attack, this last holdout surrendered on the afternoon of 17 August.
Cezembre surrendered on 2 September when the three-hundred-man garrison ran out of drinking water. The Americans had taken more than ten thousand prisoners during the two-week fight, von Aulock among them.
Post war
Saint-Malo was rebuilt over a 12-year period from 1948 to 1960.
Saint-Malo is a subprefecture
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Albania
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of the Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine (; br, Il-ha-Gwilen) is a department of France, located in the region of Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named after the two rivers of the Ille and the Vilaine. It had a population of 1,079,498 in 2019. . The commune of Saint-Servan was merged with Paramé, and became the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967.
Saint-Malo was the site of an Anglo-French summit in 1998 that led to a significant agreement regarding European defence policy.
Climate
The bay of Saint-Malo has an oceanic temperate climate. Temperatures are softened by the Gulf Stream
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and the range of average temperatures between winter and summer is very low (from 6.1°C in January to 17.8°C in August) with an average temperature of 11.6°C.
Politics
Saint-Malo is part of Ille-et-Vilaine's 7th constituency
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, and is currently represented in the National Assembly
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by Republicans Member of Parliament
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, Gilles Lurton.
Education
Schools
Schools include:
*13 public preschools (''écoles maternelles'')[Ecoles maternelles publiques]
" Saint-Malo. Retrieved on 6 September 2016.
*11 public elementary schools
*8 private preschools and elementary schools
*4 public collège : Chateaubriand, Duguay-Trouin, and Charcot
*3 private junior high schools: Choisy Jeanne d'Arc, Moka, and Sacré-Cœur
*3 public senior high schools: Lycee Maupertuis, Lycee Jacques Cartier, Professional Maritime Lycee Les Rimains
*2 private senior high schools: Lycee Institution Saint Malo-La Providence and Les Rimains
Higher education
* Institute of Technology of Saint-Malo
*A nurse school,
*A maritime school
Transport
Saint-Malo has a terminal for ferry services with daily departures to Portsmouth
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Portsmouth is the most dens ...
operated by Brittany Ferries
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and services on most days Poole
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in England via the Channel Islands
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operated by Condor Ferries
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Corporate history
Condor Ferries established the first high-speed car ferry service to ...
. It also has a railway station, Gare de Saint-Malo, offering direct TGV
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service to Rennes, Paris and several regional destinations. There is a bus service provided by Keolis. The town is served by the Dinard–Pleurtuit–Saint-Malo Airport
Dinard–Pleurtuit–Saint-Malo Airport or ''Aéroport de Dinard – Pleurtuit – Saint-Malo'' is an airport serving the city of Saint-Malo, France. It is located south-southwest of Dinard in Pleurtuit, a ''commune'' of the ''département'' ...
around to the south.
Sites of interest
Now inseparably attached to the mainland
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, Saint-Malo is the most visited place in Brittany. Sites of interest include:
*The walled city (''La Ville Intra-Muros'')
*The château of Saint-Malo, part of which is now the town museum.
*The Solidor Tower
Solidor Tower (in French ''tour Solidor'') is a strengthened keep with three linked towers, located in the estuary of the river Rance in Brittany.
It was built between 1369 and 1382 by John V, Duke of Brittany (i.e. Jean IV in French) to con ...
in Saint-Servan is a 14th-century building that holds a collection tracing the history of voyages around Cape Horn
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. Many scale models
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* Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original
* Scale factor, a number w ...
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s and objects made by the sailors during their crossing or brought back from foreign ports invoke thoughts of travel aboard extraordinary tall ships at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
*The tomb of the writer Chateaubriand on the Ile du Grand Bé
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*The Petit Bé
Petit Bé is a tidal island near the city of Saint-Malo, France, close to the larger island of Grand Bé. At low tide one can walk to the island from the nearby Bon-Secours beach.
Fort
In 1667 the French government built a small fort on the i ...
*The Cathedral
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of St. Vincent
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* Vincent of Saragossa (died 304), a.k.a. Vincent the Deacon, deacon and martyr
* Saint Vincenca, 3rd century Roman martyress, whose relics are in Blato, Croatia
* Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (died 305) ...
(Saint-Malo Cathedral
Saint-Malo Cathedral (''Cathédrale Saint-Vincent-de-Saragosse de Saint-Malo'') is a Roman Catholic Cathedral located in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France. The church was founded in dedication to Saint Vincent of Saragossa and is a national monume ...
)
*The Privateer's House ("La Demeure de Corsaire"), a ship-owner's town house built in 1725, shows objects from the history of privateering, weaponry and ship models.
* The Great Aquarium Saint-Malo, one of the major aquaria in France.
* The labyrinthe du Corsaire, (an attraction park in Saint Malo)
* The Pointe de la Varde, Natural Park.
* The City of Alet, in front of Saint Malo Intra Muros.
* Fort National
Fort National is a fort on a tidal island a few hundred metres off the walled city of Saint-Malo. The great military architect Vauban had it built in 1689 to protect Saint-Malo's port.
The fort was originally called Fort Royal. In 1789 the fo ...
* Fort de la Conchée Fort de la Conchée is a fortification on the rocky island of Quincé, four kilometers north-west of St Malo, France. Constructed by Sebastien Vauban the fort covers almost the entire island. The fortress consists of a service building built on hig ...
Panoramic photographs
Notable people
Saint-Malo was the birthplace of:
* Jacques Cartier (1491–1557), explorer
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of Canada
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* Jacques Gouin de Beauchene (1652–1730), explorer
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of the Falkland Islands
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* René Duguay-Trouin
René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, also known as René Duguay-Trouin, (10 June 1673 – 1736) was a French naval officer, nobleman, slave trader, and privateer best known for his career during the War of the Spanish Succession. He had a brilliant ...
(1673–1736) French corsair and Admiral who captured the city of Rio de Janeiro
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in 1711
* Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
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(1698–1759), mathematician
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and astronomer
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* Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais
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(1699–1753), sailor and administrator
* Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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(1709–1751), physician and philosopher
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* Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
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(1724–1772), explorer
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* Joseph Quesnel
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(1746–1809), Canadian poet
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, composer
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and playwright
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* Louis de Grandpré
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(1761–1846) French Navy officer and slave trader
* François-René de Chateaubriand
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(1768–1848), writer and diplomat
* Robert Surcouf
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(1773–1827), sailor, trader, ship-owner
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and corsair
* Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais
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(1782–1854), priest, philosophical and political writer
* Jean-Marie Duhamel
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(1797–1872), mathematician and physicist
* Louis Duchesne (1843–1922), historian, French academician
* Alfred Blunt (1879–1957), Anglican
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Bishop of Bradford
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, England, was born at St Malo of British expatriate parents and brought up there until the family returned to England in 1887.
* Pierre Allory - Rev Brother Maurice (1884–1988) of the Brothers of Christian Instruction
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, teacher and highly decorated during WWI in Medical Corp.
* Philippe Cattiau
Philippe Cattiau (28 July 1892 – 18 February 1962) was a French épée and foil fencer who won a total of eight Olympic medals between 1920 and 1936.
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(1892–1962), Olympic medalist
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in fencing
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* Colin Clive
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(1900–1937), actor
* Jean Lebrun
Jean Lebrun at the in 2008
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(born 1950), journalist and radio producer
* Agnès Martin-Lugand
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(born 1979), best-seller novelist
* Franck Mailleux
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(born 1985), racing driver
Twin towns – sister cities
Saint-Malo is twinned with:
* Port-Louis
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, Mauritius (1999)
* Gaspé, Quebec
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(2009)
* Saint-Malo, Quebec
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* St. Malo, Manitoba
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* Cowes
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, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
* Gniezno
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, Poland
Gallery
File:Street in St Malo.jpg, Street view of classic road in Saint-Malo
File:Saint-Malo Novembre 2011 (10).jpg, From the fort of Saint-Malo
File:Saint-Malo Novembre 2011 (17).jpg, The "Fort National" visible from Saint-Malo
File:St Malo - view up street from on the ramparts, to the cathedral.jpg, View up a typical city street towards the cathedral
File:Saint-Malo cathedral window.jpg, Cathedral window
File:Saint-Malo remparts 001.JPG, The city wall of St Malo.
File:Cartier Plaque.JPG, Commemoration of the Cartier expedition in the floor of the cathedral.
File:Large house in Saint-Malo.jpg , A local chateau
See also
* Battle for Brest
The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe called for the capture of port facilities, ...
* Jean-Marie Valentin
Jean-Marie Valentin, was born at Bourg-des-Comptes in Ille-et-Vilaine on 17 October 1823 and died in Paris on 8 August 1896. He was an architect and a sculptor specialising in religious furnishings such as pulpits, altars and statues. His fathe ...
* Mont Saint-Michel
* Robert Surcouf
Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and again from 1807 to 1808, capturing over 40 prizes. He later amassed a large fortune as a ...
* Rothéneuf
Rothéneuf is a village in the north west of France, situated north-east from Saint-Malo, about five kilometres alongside the coast. Administratively, it is part of the commune of Saint-Malo, in the ''département'' of Ille-et-Vilaine.
The villag ...
* Shipwrecks of Saint Malo
References
External links
Town hall's website
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Public transport of Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo France
Independent travel guide to the historic city of Saint-Malo.
Mayors of Ille-et-Vilaine Association
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Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine
Subprefectures in France
Port cities and towns on the French Atlantic coast
Seaside resorts in France