Jacques Cartier
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Jacques Cartier was a French maritime explorer from Brittany. Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he
Portrait by Théophile Hamel, c. 1844. No contemporary portraits of Cartier are known.
The Fleet of Cartier was commemorated on a 1908 Canadian postage stamp.
Plaque on the statue of Jacques Cartier in front of the Gabrielle-Roy public library, in the Saint-Roch neighbourhood of Quebec City.
Jacques Cartier on a 1934 Canadian postage stamp
Saint-Malo
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Saint-Malo is a historic French port commune in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.
Jacques Cartier
…Spanish had already settled in the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America, and were beginning their conquest of Peru. Jacques Cartier was born in 1491 in Saint-Malo, the port on the north-east coast of Brittany. Cartier, who was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Mary Catherine…
Walled city of Saint-Malo from the north at low tide
St Malo, painted c. 1900 by Emil Krause
An air raid on Saint-Malo during August 1944
Saint-Malo in 2024, within the medieval walled city