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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

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