Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northern France on the shore of the English Channel. It is a sous-préfecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine département.

Saint-Malo was the birthplace of:

• Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), explorer of Canada.
• Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1759), mathematician and astronomer
• La Bourdonnais (1699-1753), sailor and administrator
• Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854), priest, philosophical and political writer

• The walled city (La Ville Intra-Muros)
• The château of Saint-Malo
• The tomb of the writer Chateaubriand on the Ile de Grand Bé
• The Cathedral of St. Vincent

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