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

Sites of Interest

\n*The walled city (La Ville Intra-Muros)\n*The château of Saint-Malo\n*The tomb of the writer Chateaubriand on the Ile de Grand Bé\n*The Cathedral of St. Vincent See also: Mont-Saint-Michel

External links

\n* http://www.ville-saint-malo.fr/ Category:Cities, towns and villages of France