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Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a walled port city in Brittany in northern France on the English Channel. It is a a sous-préfecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine département.
Saint-Malo has 53,000 inhabitants, but that number can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season. With the suburbs, the population is about 135,000.
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Sites of Interest
- 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
Miscellaneous
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
- François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), writer and diplomat
- Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1782-1854), priest, philosophical and political writer
See also
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