Rue Saint-Malo is a paved street in
Brest, France
Brest (; ) is a port city in the Finistère department, Brittany. Located in a sheltered bay not far from the western tip of the peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French mi ...
. It is located in the Carpon valley, against the plateau des Capucins in the
Recouvrance quarter. Only its lower half survives, as the oldest street in the city.
It runs along the wall of the terrain de la Madeleine, where once stood the convent which took in 'sinful women' and (after the
revocation of the edict of Nantes
The Edict of Fontainebleau (22 October 1685) was an edict issued by French King Louis XIV and is also known as the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The Edict of Nantes (1598) had granted Huguenots the right to practice their religion without s ...
)
Huguenot
The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...
s. It is lined with 17th- and 18th-century houses and overlooked by terraced gardens. After its fountain, the road runs into the
levée de Pontaniou and ends in the staircase of the Madeleine which leads to the plateau des Capucins.
History
See also
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Rue de Siam
The ''rue de'' Siam (or ''Siam'' Street, br, Straed Siam) is the main arterial street of Brest, a port city in Brittany, France. Its name comes from the arrival of three ambassadors led by Kosa Pan, sent by the King of Siam on the 29 June 1686 ...
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Arsenal de Brest
The Brest Arsenal (French - ''arsenal de Brest'') is a collection of naval and military buildings located on the banks of the river Penfeld, in Brest, France. It is located at .
Timeline
*1631-1635 Beginning of the foundations of the port infr ...
External links
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Official site for the association ''Vivre la rue''created in 1989 for the preservation of rue Saint-Malo
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Geography of Brest, France
History of Brest, France
Streets in Brest, France