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Saint Vincent, Gulf: triangular inlet of the Indian Ocean, on the southeast coast of South Australia, between Yorke Peninsula to the west and the mainland. About 90 mi (145 km) long and 45 miles (73 km) wide, it is linked with the ocean ...
Saint-Acheul: locality near Amiens in the Somme River valley, Somme departement, Picardie region, northern France. Saint-Acheul is the type locality at which a number of distinctive early Paleolithic hand axes were found. These axes characteristically are large, bifacially flaked, ovoid stone ...
Saint-Affrique: town, Aveyron departement, Midi-Pyrenees region, southern France. The town is situated about 60 miles (96 km) northwest of Beziers on the southeastern coast and about 6 miles (10 km) from the town of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon, which is noted for its production ...
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux: town and spa, Nord departement, Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, northern France, at the junction of the Elnon River with the canalized Scarpe River. It is situated 22 miles (35 km) southeast of Lille and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Valenciennes, near ...
Saint-Amand-les-Eaux ware: tin-glazed earthenware and porcelain made in the French town of that name in the 18th and 19th centuries. The factory was begun in 1718 by Pierre-Joseph Fauquez of nearby Tournai and was continued by P.-F.-J. Fauquez after 1741 and by ...
Saint-Amand-Montrond: town, Cher departement, Centre region, central France. The town, which is situated some 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Bourges, grew up around a monastery founded by St. Amand, a follower of St. Columban, in the 7th century.
Saint-Amant, Antoine Girard, Sieur de: one of the most original and interesting of French early 17th-century poets and one of the first members of the French Academy.
Saint-Andre, Andre Jeanbon: French Protestant clergyman who became a member of the Committee of Public Safety that ruled France during the period of the Jacobin dictatorship (1793-94).
Saint-Andre, Jacques d'Albon, seigneur de: (lord of) favourite of King Henry II of France, who made him successively member of the royal council, marshal of France, premier gentleman of the chamber, governor of Lyonnais, and ambassador to England.
Saint-Andrew's-cross: (Ascyrum hypericoides), plant, of the family Hypericaceae, native to southeastern North America and Central America, sometimes cultivated for its four-petaled yellow flowers. It reaches 75 cm (2.5 feet) and has many branches, two-angled stems, oblong to narrow leaves, and 1.5-centimetre- ...
Saint-Arnaud, Armand-Jacques Leroy de: army officer and later marshal of France who was minister of war under Napoleon III and commander in chief of the French forces in the Crimean War.
Saint-Barthelemy: island at the northern end of the Windward group of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It constitutes a commune and, together with Saint Martin, forms an arrondissement of Guadeloupe, an overseas departement of France. The island is 120 ...
Saint-Benoit-sur-Loire: village, Loiret departement, Centre region, north-central France, on the right bank of the Loire River, 25 miles (40 km) east of Orleans by road. The splendid Romanesque basilica is the only survival of the Benedictine abbey of Fleury, founded about ...
Saint-Brieuc: town, capital of Cotes d'Armor departement, Brittany region, northwestern France. It is situated on a promontory between the ravines of the Gouet River and its tributary the Gouedic, near Saint-Brieuc Bay on the English Channel. Saint-Brieuc is named after a ...
Saint-Cesaire: paleoanthropological site in southwestern France where in 1979 the remains of a young adult male Neanderthal were found buried in a small pit. The skeleton was recovered during archaeological salvage excavations at the back of the Roche-a-Pierrot rock shelter, near ...
Saint-Cloud: town, Hauts-de-Seine departement, Ile-de-France region, northern France. It is a western residential suburb of Paris, located on the left bank of the Seine River. The northern part is separated from Paris by Longchamps racecourse ...
Saint-Cloud porcelain: soft-paste porcelain made in the town of Saint-Cloud, Fr., from the last quarter of the 17th century until 1766. Pierre Chicaneau began the manufacture, which passed by marriage to the family of Henri Trou (c. 1722 onward). Much of the ...
Saint-Cyr: French national military academy at Coetquidan, founded in Fontainebleau in 1803 by Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1808 Napoleon moved it to the town of Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole near Versailles, on the site of a famous school founded in the 17th century by Madame ...
Saint-Denis: city, Seine-Saint-Denis departement, Paris region, France. The city is a northern suburb of Paris and lies on the right bank of the Seine. Until the mid-19th century, when industries developed there, it was only a small township centred on its ...
Saint-Denis: town, capital of the French overseas departement of Reunion in the western Indian Ocean. The town lies in a basin at the mouth of the Saint-Denis River on the north coast of the island, wedged between the ocean and a ...
Saint-Denis, Louis Juchereau de: French-Canadian explorer and soldier, leader of a 1714 expedition from French-held Natchitoches, in the Louisiana Territory, to the Spanish town of San Juan Bautista (modern Villahermosa) on the Rio Grande.
Saint-Denis, Michel: French director, producer, teacher, and theatrical innovator who was influential in the development of the British theatre for 40 years.
Saint-Die: town, Vosges departement, Lorraine region, northeastern France, on the Meurthe River, southeast of Nancy. A bishop's see, it grew up around the monastery of Saint-Deodatus, or Dieudonne (7th century), from which its name is derived. It has a printing industry ...
Saint-Dizier: town, Haute-Marne departement, Champagne-Ardennes region, northeastern France, on the Marne River and the Canal de la Marne a la Saone, northeast of Troyes. On the site of the Roman Desiderii Fanum, its Gigny and Saint-Martin churches date from the 13th ...
Saint-Etienne: city, capital of Loire departement, Rhone-Alpes region, on the northeast border of the Massif Central, east-central France. From its beginning as a small community in a coal basin, huddled around the church from which it takes its name, it has ...
Saint-Eustache: town, Laurentides region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the Mille-Iles River, opposite Laval (Ile Jesus). Settled in the 18th century, it was the site of the final battle of the 1837 uprisings, in which the militia, under General John Colborne, ...
Saint-Evremond, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis, Seigneur de: French gentleman of letters and amateur moralist who stands as a transitional figure between Michel de Montaigne (d. 1592) and the 18th-century Philosophes of the Enlightenment.
Saint-Exupery, Antoine de: French aviator and writer whose works are the unique testimony of a pilot and a warrior who looked at adventure and danger with a poet's eyes.
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus: generally acknowledged to be the foremost American sculptor of the late 19th century, noted for his evocative memorial statues and for the subtle modeling of his low reliefs.
Saint-Germain, Claude-Louis, comte de: (count of) French general who sought reforms in the French armies.
Saint-Germain, comte de: (count of) 18th-century adventurer, known as der Wundermann ("the Wonderman").
Saint-Germain, Treaty of: (1919), treaty concluding World War I and signed by representatives of Austria on one side and the Allied Powers on the other. It was signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, on Sept. 10, 1919, and came into force on July 16, ...
Saint-Germain-en-Laye: town, Yvelines departement, Paris region, western suburb of Paris, France. It is on the left bank of the Seine River, adjoining the Forest of Saint-Germain and just north of the Forest of Marly. The chateau of Saint-Germain and its park ...
Saint-Gobain-Pont-a-Mousson, Compagnie de: leading French manufacturer and distributor of construction materials, packaging, and containers.
Saint-Hubert: city, Monteregie region, Quebec province, Canada, on the east side of the St. Lawrence River. The city is mainly a residential suburb of Montreal city, but it has two industrial parks-Pilon and Litchfield. Saint-Hubert was the site of the first ...
Saint-Hubert: municipality, Luxembourg province, southeastern Belgium. It lies in the Ardennes Forest, northwest of Arlon.
Saint-Hyacinthe: city, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is situated along the Yamaska River. Founded in 1760, it was named after Hyacinthe de Lorme, who bought the territory in 1753.
Saint-Jean, Lac: lake in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, south-central Quebec province, Canada. A shallow lake, occupying 387 square miles (1,003 square km) of a large graben (a downfaulted basin), it receives the drainage of a 30,000-square-mile (78,000-square-kilometre) area and discharges it through two outlets ...
Saint-Jean-de-Luz: town on Bay of Biscay, Pyrenees-Atlantiques departement, Aquitaine region, southern France. It lies on the right bank of the Nivelle River, near the Spanish frontier.
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Agreement of: (April 1917), pact concluded at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, on the French-Italian border, between Great Britain, France, and Italy to reconcile conflicting claims of France and Italy over southwestern Anatolia in the event of dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire at the end of ...
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu: city, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the west bank of the Richelieu River, opposite Iberville. Its site, 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Montreal city, was first occupied by Fort-Saint-Jean, built in 1666 and reconstructed in 1748 and ...
Saint-Jerome: city, Laurentides region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the Nord (North) River. Settled in 1834, it was originally called Dumontville. Situated 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Montreal city, it experienced rapid growth after the arrival in 1868 of Cure ...
Saint-John Perse: French poet and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry."
Saint-John's-wort: common name for the family Hypericaceae, in the tea order (Theales), which contains 8 genera and 350 species of herbs or low shrubs. Some authorities consider this family to be part of the family Guttiferae. Members of the family Hypericaceae ...
Saint-Just, Louis de: controversial ideologue of the French Revolution, one of the most zealous advocates of the Reign of Terror (1793-94), who was arrested and guillotined in the Thermidorian Reaction.
Saint-Lambert: city, Monteregie region, southern Quebec province, Canada, on the St. Lawrence River, opposite Montreal Island, with which it is connected by Victoria Bridge. Founded in 1647 as a freehold of the Jesuits, the community was long an agricultural centre and ...
Saint-Laurent: city, Montreal region, southern Quebec province, Canada. It is a western suburb of Montreal city, in the centre of Montreal Island in the St. Lawrence River. Founded in 1845 on the site of a mission that dated to 1720, it ...
Saint-Laurent du Maroni: port, northwest French Guiana, on the east bank of the Maroni River opposite Albina, Suriname. It was formerly headquarters of the country's penal colonies and the site of the largest prison, closed in 1944. Apart from its port facilities, local ...
Saint-Leon, Arthur: French dancer, choreographer, violinist, and inventor of a method of dance notation, celebrated as the choreographer of the ballet Coppelia.
Saint-Lo: town, capital of Manche departement, Basse-Normandie region, northwestern France. It lies on a promontory dominating the Vire River valley. Called Briovera in Gallo-Roman times, it was renamed for St. Lo, 6th-century bishop of Coutances. In the Middle Ages it was ...
Saint-Louis: island city and seaport near the mouth of the Senegal River, and rail terminus north-northeast of Dakar, Senegal, western Africa. The island and city are connected to the mainland by a land bridge. Saint-Louis, founded in 1659, is the oldest ...