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[?]

External links

• http://www.ville-saint-malo.fr/