Saint-Germain

Saint-Germain may refer to:

People

• Saint Germain of Paris (496–576), bishop of Paris who founded Saint-Germain-des-Prés
• Saint Germanus of Auxerre (c. 378–448), a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul
• Germaine Cousin (1579–1601), French saint
• Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (1707–1778), French general
• Antoine-Louis Decrest de Saint-Germain (1761-1835), Count, French general, cavalry commander during the Napoleonic Wars
• Count of St. Germain ("Comte de Saint-Germain"), 18th-century adventurer/scientist and mysterious gentleman who claimed to be centuries old
  • St. Germain (Theosophy), based on the Count of St. Germain, considered to be one of the central deities of Theosophy
• St. Germain (musician), stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musician
• Christopher St. Germain, English legal writer
• Tabitha St. Germain, Canadian actress and voice actress
• Fernand St. Germain, American politician from Rhode Island
• Karen St. Germain, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
• Gerry St. Germain, Canadian Senator

Places

• Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a royal French chateau west of Paris
• Boulevard Saint-Germain, a street in Paris, France
• Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a neighborhood in Paris, France
• Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois,a church in Paris, France
• Communes in France:
  • Saint-Germain-en-Laye, city that has grown up around the above chateau
  • Saint-Germain, Ardèche, a commune in the department of Ardèche
  • Saint-Germain, Aube, a commune in the department of Aube
  • Saint-Germain, Meurthe-et-Moselle, a commune in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle
  • Saint-Germain, Haute-Saône, a commune in the department of Haute-Saône
  • Saint-Germain, Vienne, a commune in the department of Vienne
  • List of French communes of Saint-Germain
• Saint-Germain, Quebec, a parish municipality in Canada
• St. Germain, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
• St. Germain (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States

Events

• Edict of Saint-Germain, 1562, recognizing the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion in the 16th century, signed in the chateau
• Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1570, a truce in the same wars
• Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), also signed in the chateau, but at the end of World War I in 1919

Fiction

• Count Saint-Germain (vampire), fictional vampire and hero of two dozen novels by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• St. Germaine, a fictional town in North Carolina that is the setting for some of Mark Schweizer's mystery novel series
• Saint Germaine (comics), a comic book from Caliber Comics
• Saint Germain, an immortal who knows the elemental magic of Fire and married to Joan of Arc in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
• Maya St. Germain, a character in Sara Shepard's Pretty Little Liars series

Other uses

• Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris-based professional football club
• Saint Germain Foundation, a spiritual organization in Northern California
• Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café, a series of nu-jazz compilations
• St. Germain (liqueur), a French liqueur made from elderflowers
• MV Saint Germain, a French train ferry in service 1951-88

See also

• Sanctus Germanus
• Germanus (disambiguation)
• Germain (disambiguation)