What is Saint-Brieuc?
{{French commune |name = Saint-Brieuc |native name = Sant-Brieg |image = Cathedrale2.JPG |caption = [[Saint-Brieuc Cathedral]] |image coat of arms = Blason Saint-Brieuc.svg |coordinates = {{coord|48.5136|-2.7653|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |INSEE = 22278 |postal code = 22000 |arrondissement = Saint-Brieuc |canton = |mayor = Bruno Joncour |party = [[Democratic Movement (France)|MoDem]] |term = 2014–2020 |intercommunality = Saint-Brieuc |elevation min m = 0 |elevation max m = 134 |area km2 = 21.88 |population = 45936 |population date = 2012 }} '''Saint-Brieuc''' is a [[Communes of France|commune]]. It is the [[Prefectures in France|prefecture]] of the [[Côtes-d'Armor]] [[Departments of France|department]] in [[Brittany]]. == Born in Saint-Brieuc == * [[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]] * [[Octave-Louis Aubert]] (1870–1950), editor * [[Louis Guilloux]] (1899–1980), writer * [[Henri Nomy]] (1899–1971), [[admiral]] * [[Maryvonne Dupureur]] (1937–2008), athlete, Olympic 800m silver medallist * [[Patrick Dewaere]] (1947–1982), actor * [[Anne-Marie Idrac]] (1951- ), politician * [[Kévin Théophile-Catherine]], footballer * [[Mamadou Wague]], footballer * [[Yelle]] (Julie Budet) 1983 – present, musician == Sister cities == Saint-Brieuc ''préfecture'' of the [[Côtes-d'Armor]] is twinned with : * {{Flagicon|GER}} [[Alsdorf]], Germany, since 1970 * {{Flagicon|Wales}} [[Aberystwyth]], Wales, since 1973 * {{Flagicon|Greece}} [[Agia Paraskevi]], Greece, since 1991 ==Related pages== * [[Stade Briochin]] {{Commonscat}} {{Préfectures of départements of France}} {{France-geo-stub}} [[Category:Saint-Brieuc]]