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Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo is a 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
See also: Mont-Saint-Michel[?]
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