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Saint-Brieuc (săN-brēö`), town (1990 pop. 47,370), capital of Côtes-d'Armor dept., NW France, on the Gouet River near its mouth on the Bay of Saint-Brieuc, an arm of the English Channel. Tourism, metallurgy, and textiles are the chief industries. Saint-Brieuc was probably founded in the 5th cent. and grew rapidly after St. Briomach, the Welsh missionary for whom the town was named, built a monastery there (6th or 7th cent.). An episcopal see since the 9th cent., the town was the meeting place for the provincial estates of Brittany in the 17th and 18th cent. Many old houses remain, and there is a Gothic cathedral. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Hains was also born to a shopkeeping family, in the Breton town of Saint-Brieuc, where the difficulties of Nazi occupation were matched only by the destruction endured during the Allied campaigns of 1944. The group has over 1900 employees, 19 locations in France: Paris, Grenoble, Lyon, Tours, Lannion, Rennes, Nantes, Aix-en-Provence, Sophia-Antipolis, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Saint-Brieuc, Valognes, Strasbourg, Colmar, Belfort, Besancon and Mulhouse and is also present in Switzerland (Geneva), Spain (Madrid), Portugal (Lisbon), Canada (Montreal). |
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