N°2, the front of the “White Mansion”, reconstructed identically by the French National Trust ( Monuments Historiques) in 1951. Chateaubriand lived there with his family from the age of 3 to 8.

At N°3, the “La Gicquelais Mansion” (C17th) on the 4th Sept 1768 François René de Chateaubriand was born. At n°3, “The Blinais Mansion”(1670) on the ground floor, Gwen and Dodik, contempory sculptors, enamel and ceramics on celtic subject.

En attente

At n°2, « The House of Duchess Anne » (C15th restored), at n°10, a beautiful of Saint-Malo.

One can see there the last half-timbered houses still within the walls.

At n°2, in the Rue du Collège one can see the great of the ancient Plouer mansion (C17th), today “Institution of Saint-Malo”.

At n°2, beautiful sculptured gate in the Renaissance style where Bertrand-François Mahé de la Bourdonnais, governer of the “Isles of France and Bourbon” (Mauritus and la Reunion) was supposedly born

At n°8, beautiful front of the C18th, ancient chapel of the Victorious Benedictines (1622) and the reconstructed buildings of the National School of the Merchant Navy (Architects Arretche and Hummel, 1959) ; in the yard, statue of the God Aeol.

Maclow, Maclou or Saint Malo was a Welsh monk from the C6th who gave his name to the Aaron rock, which is now the old city.

After having arrived the little chapel of Saint Aaron (1621), dedicated to the hermit who was the first inhabitant of the rock in the C6th, one finds the new Law Court, 1957, apart of it, housed in the ancient church of the English Benedictines (1626). At n°6 and 8, beautiful fronts of the C17th are reconstructed identically.

(ancient hydrography teacher of Saint-Malo) : it faces the front of the School of Hydrography where a gate from 1710 is kept.

At the corner of the rue du Chat qui Danse rises the old renovated « la Bertaudière Mansion » where Robert Surcouf was suppossedly born in 1773.

We enter here in what was previously military arsenal of the city, above the gate, should shelter a small statue of Sainte Barbe which is preserved in the Museum of the History of the Town. The building to the right shelters now the “Quebec House” (Maison du Québec) and on the terrace, where the ancient colours of the Old and New France fly ; a statue of Robert Surcouf by Caravaniez (1902).

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Modern monument by the sculptor Dodeign at the bottom of the archway of an ancient cloister.

it takes the name of the first bishop of Saint-Malo who transferred in 1146 his seat of Alet (Saint Servan) to “Saint Malo de l’Isle” (the isle of Saint Malo). He started also the construction of the cathedral which merits a long visit.

it recalls the ancient name of the ecclesiastical district and market also the boundary ; this leads to the Place du Pilori at the same heart of reconstructed Saint Malo and the commercial street.

(the name of a captain of Saint Malo who succeded in rounding Cape Horn in 1701) : it shows the general effect of the reconstruction of Saint Malo.

Several old homes miraculously survived the harmonious integration in this yard of buildings reconstructed by M.Arretche.

(famous economist of the C18th) : it finishes by several old houses of the C17th.

A little picturesque square, sheltered from the wind, charming shrubbery, very near rue Saint Joseph, the famous old “Rue des Moeurs…”!

(famous admiral of Saint Malo, buried at the Panthéon) : After an old section, this street ends up in another yard of buildings reconstructed by M.Arretche, where one can see a graceful arch and arcades with tasteful enamels of the artist Bizette (Statue of Saint Malo).

(famous surgeon born in Saint-Malo in 1772) : New commercial street, still full of life.

This takes you to the old chapel of the Hotel Dieu (hospital) which is now used for cultural exhibitions C17th.

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At n°4, a mansion with an curved door dated 1637.

At n°2, “Brevet Mansion” (1725) which is part of what one calls the “houses of the privateers” (maisons de corsaires).

A picturesque wooden arch connecting the old Recollets convent (1618-1683) or “Saint François House” (Maison de Saint-François) above the street.

At n°4, a mansion of Saint-Malo (1620) marks the boundary of the old town before the Growth of C18th. From 1708 to 1742, 4 urban extensions were erected on the plans of the engineer Garangeau and they had permitted the city to increase from 16 to the now 24 hectares (the surface of the Gardens of the Tuileries!). It is in this growth that most of the shipowners mansions or also “privateers houses” (Maisons de Corsaires) were built.

At n°2, the “Le Fer de la Saudre Mansion” (reconstructed identically), Feydeau de Brou was the administrator of Brittany at the beginning of the C18th.

This name recalls Philippe d’Orléans, Regent France.

The Marquis of Asfeld was the director of the fortifications under Louis XVth. At n°5, is “Asfeld Mansion”of Magon de La Lande, charasteristic of the style of houses of the privateers of Saint-Malo.

Abbot of Trublet, a talented literary man, born in Saint-Malo, was laughed at by Voltaire who didn’t like the intellectuals of Saint-Malo.

In this block, entirely reconstructed after 1944, one sees the mansion which shelters the Municipal Library (C17th), where André Désilles was born, who rendered illustrious in Nancy in 1790.

Reconstructed mansion where the secret marriage of Chateaubriand and Céleste Buisson de la Vigne was celebrated.

Before n°2 stopped the Great Fire (Grande Brûlerie) of 27th October 1161, which destroyed 287 houses in one nights.

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his leads to the Place de la Poissonnerie of which the hall is reconstructed by the architect H. Auffret, inspired by the Nordic Buildings. “Chien de Mer” by the Sculptor Pellerin.