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:
- 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
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