Saint-Germain
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Saint-Germain may refer to:
people
- Saint Germain of Paris (496-576), bishop of Paris who founded Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- Germaine Cousin (1579-1601), French saint
- Claude Louis, Comte de Saint-Germain (1707-1778), French general
- Count of St Germain ("Comte de Saint-Germain"), the 18th-century adventurer/scientist and mysterious gentleman who claimed to be centuries old
- St. Germain (musician), stage name of Ludovic Navarre, a French electronica and nu jazz musician
- Gerry Saint Germain, Canadian Senator
- Christopher St. Germain
a location
- Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, royal French chateau in the Île-de-France west of Paris
- Boulevard Saint-Germain, in Paris, France
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 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
- St. Germain, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
types of 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, 1570, a truce in the same wars
- Treaty of Saint-Germain, also signed in the chateau, but at the end of World War I in 1919
In fiction
- Count Saint-Germain (vampire), fictional vampire and hero of two dozen novels by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- St. Germaine, North Carolina, fictional town that is the setting for some of Mark Schweizer's mystery novel series
other uses
- Paris Saint-Germain, Paris-based professional soccer team
- Saint Germain Foundation, a spiritual organization in Northern California
- Braque Saint-Germain, a dog breed
- Comte C. de Saint-Germain, A.B., LL.D., the pseudonym of Edgar de Valcourt-Vermont, a Chicago Times journalist who wrote a number of books, published in USA, on palmistry, astrology, hypnotism, and heraldry, circa 1900. He also translated Émile Zola's La Bête humaine and Le Rêve, and Honoré de Balzac's "dramatic works " into English
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