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Saint-Malo is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Niterói is a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast region of Brazil. It lies across Guanabara Bay, facing the city of Rio de Janeiro and forming part of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area. It was the capital of Rio de Janeiro, as marked by its golden mural crown, from 1834 to 1894 and again from 1903 to 1975. It has an estimated population of 515,317 inhabitants (2020) and an area of 129.375 km2 (49.952 sq mi), making it the fifth most populous city in the state. It has the highest Human Development Index in the state and the seventh highest among Brazil's municipalities in 2010. Individually, it is the second municipality with the highest average monthly household income per capita in Brazil and appears in 13th place among the municipalities of the country according to social indicators related to education. The city has the nicknames of Cidade Sorriso.
Mont-Saint-Michel is a tidal island and mainland commune in Normandy, France.
The following is a list of the 332 communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department of France.
René Trouin, Sieur du Gué, also known as René Duguay-Trouin, was a French Navy officer and nobleman best known for his actions during the War of the Spanish Succession in the early 18th century. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career, eventually becoming Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King in 1728, as well as a Commander in the Order of Saint-Louis. Ten ships of the French Navy have since been named in his honour.
Vice admiral Emmanuel-Auguste de Cahideuc, comte Dubois de la Motte was a French naval officer.
Cancale is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is known as the birthplace of Saint Jeanne Jugan.
Jacques-Eugène Feyen was a French painter.
Carantec is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.
La Gouesnière is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Cherrueix is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department of Brittany in northwestern France.
Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France. Its inhabitants, known as Michelois, numbered 5,173 at the 2018 census.
Revenant was a 20-gun privateer corvette, launched in 1807, and designed by Robert Surcouf for commerce raiding. The French Navy later requisitioned her and renamed her Iéna, after Napoleon's then-recent victory at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. The British captured her in 1808 and she served in the Royal Navy as HMS Victor. The French Navy recaptured her in 1809, taking her back into service under the new name. The British again captured her when they took Isle de France in December 1810. They did not restore her to service, and she was subsequently broken up.
The Gulf of Saint-Malo is a part of the south-western English Channel between Brittany, Normandy, and the Channel Islands.
Hercules was a sailing ship built in 1801 at South Shields, England. She made one trip transporting convicts to Port Jackson. She made two trips for the British East India Company (EIC), and was homeward bound from the second of these when the French privateer Napoleon captured her off the Cape of Good Hope.
Joseph Potier was a French privateer and slave trader. He was one of the lieutenants of Robert Surcouf.
François-Thomas Le Même was a French privateer.
The Mont-Saint-Michel Bay is located between Brittany and the Normandy peninsula of Cotentin. The bay was listed as a UNESCO world heritage site in 1979 for its aesthetic quality and its importance to the Christian tradition. Due to the significant tidal movements in this region a large part of the bay is uncovered at low tide. There are two granitic islands in the bay: Tombelaine and the Mont-Saint-Michel. Many birds and harbor seals live in this area.
The long-distance hiking trail 34 is a French coastal path that starts from Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche) and ends in Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique). It runs along almost the entire coast of the Brittany region from Mont Saint-Michel and, beyond the limit between Morbihan and Loire-Atlantique, to the mouth of the Loire. It stretches over 1,700 kilometres. It largely follows former customs paths. These paths, gradually abandoned during the first half of the 20th century, allowed customs officers to patrol the coast from their guardhouses, located at key observation points on the Brittany coast.
The Côte d'Émeraude is a name given to a part of the English Channel coast of eastern Brittany near the border with Normandy in France.