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To discover Saint-Malo, it is to traverse the book of its history through its Great men: geniuses or adventurers, they left all an indelible print in the granite of its ramparts. True fortress, Saint Malo is prided never not to be conquered.
Founded at the VI century by the Welsh monk Maclow from which it draws its name, the enclave Gallic, Roman, then inhabitant of Saint Malo initially developed on the City of Aleth to Saint-Servan. Too much often prone to the invaders, it is at the XII century that the bishop Jean de Châtillon transfers his seat on the rock, an island with high tide, where the old city has its bases today. At the XV century end, Anne of Brittany, by her successive marriages with Charles VIII, then Louis XII, annexed the Duchy of Brittany to the Kingdom of France. At the XVI century, its sailors foamed all the oceans of planet. Jacques Cartier discovers Canada, the Corsairs of the King, Surcouf and Duguay Trouin conquiérent a number of fortified towns, making of Malo Saint in same time the richest city of the Kingdom. > > > In knowknowing more about Saint-Malo
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