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For the saint, see Saint Malo (saint).
Saint-Malo (Sant-Maloù in Breton) is a walled port city in Brittany in northwestern France on the English Channel. It is a sous-préfecture of the Ille-et-Vilaine département. Saint-Malo has 50,000 inhabitants, but that number can increase to up to 200,000 in the summer tourist season. With the suburbs, the population is about 135,000.
History
Saint-Malo had a tradition of aserting its autonomy in dealings with the French authorities and even with the local Breton authorities. From 1590-1594, Saint-Malo declared itself to be an independent republic, taking the motto "not French, not Breton, but Malouins". Saint-Malo became notorious as the home of the corsairs, French privateers and sometimes pirates. The corsairs of Saint-Malo not only forced English ships passing up the Channel to pay tribute, but also brought wealth from further afield. Jacques Cartier, who sailed the Saint Lawrence River and visited the sites of Quebec City and Montréal - and is thus credited as the discoverer of Canada, lived in and sailed from Saint-Malo, as did the first colonists to settle the Falklands – hence the islands' French name Îles Malouines, which gave rise to the Spanish name Islas Malvinas. The commune of Saint-Servan was merged, together with Paramé, and became the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967.
Sites of interestNow inseparably attached to the mainland, Saint-Malo is the most visited place in Brittany. Sites of interest include:
MiscellaneousSaint-Malo was the birthplace of:
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