#SAINT MALO

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Snapdragon Saint-Malo, France

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Saint-Malo, France  2023

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Saint-Malo, quartier de Saint Servan.

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When in the light of a motel room I begged you not to go

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Saint Malo

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Bretagne (Brittany), France...

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In 1995, the wrecks of two large corsairs (French privateers) that had sunk at the foot of the Natière reef were discovered near Saint-Malo. The two ships were identified as the Dauphine (1703) and the Aimable Grenot (1748), two frigates with 30 and 40 guns respectively. They both ran aground on the reef during the 18th century and joined several other ships that also met their end there.

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Here's what San Malo looked like AFTER the bombing. It took 3 years to clean it up and 10 years to rebuild it. It is amazzzing that it even could be done!

“Every hour, she thinks, someone for whom the war was memory falls out of the world. We rise again in the grass. In the flowers. In songs.” ― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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Morning On The Beach Saint-Malo, France

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Saint-Malo, France  2023

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The tomb of Chateaubriand (1768-1848), famous French writer, mostly known for his part in the romanticism movement.

It is located on the Grand Bé islet, a few feets away from Saint-Malo intramuros and accessible during low tide. Chateaubriand wanted to be buried here so he could forever hear the sound of waves and wind, the same sounds that welcomed him to life when he was born in that city. The mayor accepted after some issues, and the writer was finally able to build his tomb, ten years before his death. About a century later, during WWII, Saint-Malo was heavily bombed and nearly destroyed, and the tomb also received some dammage. That is why it looks kinda recent when we see it today. While restoring it, it was decided to remove the separation facing the see and to erase his name from the grave, because that was more correct regarding to his last wills. Only a plaque was put on a small wall behind (the islet is full of diverse ruins) saying that a writer is resting here and doesn't want to be disturbed.

The tomb before the war (source here)

A plaque about him inside the city walls

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Othon Friesz

Les remparts de Saint-Malo (The ramparts of Saint-Malo)

1935

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Saint Malo. Bretagne. France

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Saint-Malo, Bretagne - France