Saint-Brieuc
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Location within Brittany region
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| Country | France |
| Region | Brittany |
| Department | Côtes-d'Armor |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Brieuc |
| Intercommunality | Saint-Brieuc |
| Mayor | Bruno Joncour (MoDem) (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 0–134 m (0–440 ft) |
| Land area1 | 21.88 km2 (8.45 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 45,879 (2008) |
| - Density | 2,097 /km2 (5,430 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 22278/ 22000 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Coordinates: 48°30′49″N 2°45′55″W / 48.5136°N 2.7653°W
Saint-Brieuc (pronounced [sɛ̃.bʁi.jø], Breton: Sant-Brieg, Gallo: Saent-Berioec) is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France.
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[edit] History
Saint-Brieuc is named after a Welsh monk Brioc, who evangelized the region in the 6th century and established an oratory there. Bro Sant-Brieg/Pays de Saint-Brieuc, one of the nine traditional bishoprics of Brittany which were used as administrative areas before the French Revolution, was named after Saint-Brieuc.
[edit] Culture
Saint-Brieuc is one of the towns in Europe that hosts the IU Honors Program..
The Cemetery of Saint Michel contains graves of several notable Bretons, and sculptures by Paul le Goff and Jean Boucher. Outside the wall is Armel Beaufils's statue of Anatole Le Braz. Le Goff, who was killed with his two brothers in World War I, is also commemorated in a street and with his major sculptural work La forme se dégageant de la matière in the central gardens, which also includes a memorial to him by Jules-Charles Le Bozec and work by Francis Renaud.
The town of St. Brieux in Saskatchewan, Canada is named after Saint-Brieuc of Brittany. It was founded by immigrants from this region in Brittany. It was settled in the early 1900s.
[edit] Geography
The town is located by the English Channel, on the Bay of Saint-Brieuc. Two rivers flow through Saint-Brieuc: the Goued/Gouët and the Gouedig/Gouëdic.
Other towns of notable size in the département of Côtes d'Armor are Gwengamp/Guingamp, Dinan, and Lannuon/Lannion all sous-préfectures.
In 2009, large amounts of sea lettuce, a type of algae, washed up on many beaches of Brittany, and when it rotted it emitted dangerous levels of hydrogen sulphide.[citation needed] A horse and some dogs died and a council worker driving a truckload of it fell unconscious at the wheel and died.[citation needed] The beach at Saint-Brieuc suffered bad damage and had to be shut.[citation needed]
[edit] Neighboring communes
Langueux, La Méaugon, Plérin, Ploufragan, Trégueux and Trémuson.
[edit] Population
Inhabitants of Saint-Brieuc are called briochins or briochains.
| Year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 |
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| Population | 43,142 | 50,281 | 52,559 | 48,563 | 44,752 | 46,087 | 45,879 |
[edit] Breton language
In 2008, 3.98% of primary school children attended bilingual schools.[1]
[edit] Transport
The Gare de Saint-Brieuc railway station, situated on the Paris–Brest railway, is connected by TGV Atlantique to Paris Montparnasse station in about 3 hours.
An air service from Saint-Brieuc – Armor Airport to Newquay in Cornwall is operated by Isles of Scilly Skybus[2] four days per week.
[edit] Personalities
Saint-Brieuc was the birthplace of:
- Octave-Louis Aubert (1870–1950), editor
- Émile Durand (1830–1903), music theorist and teacher
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838–1889), symbolist writer
- Louis Auguste Harel de La Noë (1852-1931), engineer
- Célestin Bouglé (1870–1940), philosopher
- Louis Guilloux (1899–1980), writer
- Henri Nomy (1899–1971), admiral
- Patrick Dewaere (1947–1982), actor
- Kévin Théophile-Catherine,footballer
- Mamadou Wague, footballer
- Anaclet Wamba (1960–), boxer
- Yelle (Julie Budet) 1983 – present, musician
- Maryvonne Dupureur (1937–2008), athlete, Olympic 800m silver medallist
[edit] International relations
Saint-Brieuc préfecture of the Côtes-d'Armor is twinned with :
Aberystwyth, Wales
Agia Paraskevi, Greece
Alsdorf, Germany
Goražde, Bosnia and Herzegovina
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ (French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue
- ^ Skybus
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Saint-Brieuc |
- City council website (French)
- saint-brieuc.maville (French)
- French Ministry of Culture list for Saint-Brieuc (French)
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