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Saint-Lô
Saint-Lô, prefecture of the Manche department in Normandy, France; about 19,500 inhabitants. Known for its near-total destruction (77%) in July 1944, the Battle of Saint-Lô, Samuel Beckett's "capital of ruins," and postwar reconstruction.
Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne
Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, a former parish municipality in Les Moulins, Quebec, founded as a parish in 1723 honoring abbe Louis Lepage, constituted municipally in 1855, and merged with Terrebonne in 1985; now an official village within the city.
Saint-Malo
Saint-Malo (Sant-Maloù), Brittany's walled Corsair City at the Rance mouth: privateers Duguay-Trouin and Surcouf, Vauban forts, 80% wartime destruction, 17 August 1944 liberation, and identical postwar reconstruction.
Saint-Marc, Artibonite
Saint-Marc (Sen Mak), coastal commune and port city in Haiti's Artibonite department, founded 1695, commune 1915; IHSI 2024 commune population 292,716; colonial export port, now a consumer-goods entry point hit by gang violence and displacement.
Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan
Saint-Martin-le-Bas, Gruissan: Roman and medieval coastal settlement on the Île Saint-Martin in the Narbonnaise lagoon, a possible avant-port of ancient Narbonne, with a 2,500 m² courtyard complex, probable lighthouse, and cisterns.
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, a Var commune in Provence, France, home to the Gothic Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine holding the relics of Mary Magdalene; 17,896 residents in 2023.
Saint-Michel tumulus
Saint-Michel tumulus (Tumulus de Carnac): giant Neolithic burial mound in Carnac, Brittany, over 30,000 m³, type of the Carnacean barrows, richly furnished central crypt dated to the mid-5th millennium BC.
Saint-Nazaire
Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique port city at the Loire estuary (74,568 inhabitants, 2023); France's shipbuilding capital since 1862 (Chantiers de l'Atlantique), Nantes-Saint-Nazaire port (4th French port), WWII U-boat base, Operation Chariot, 80% destroyed, rebuilt modernist, 480 MW offshore wind farm.
Saint-Pierre (TV series)
Saint-Pierre: Canadian CBC police procedural (2025–) created by Allan Hawco, Robina Lord-Stafford, Perry Chafe; Hawco and Joséphine Jobert star as Fitz and Arch, exiled officers solving crimes in French Saint-Pierre et Miquelon; renewed through season 3.
Saint-Pierre-d'Aurillac
Saint-Pierre-d'Aurillac, a commune on the right bank of the Garonne near Langon in Gironde, France; former Benedictine priory of Aurillac abbey with a Gallo-Roman villa site and a 19th-century neo-Romanesque church.
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (SQY), a communauté d'agglomération of 12 communes in the Yvelines west of Paris, a 1970s new town with 234,000 residents, 132,000 jobs, seat at Trappes, Grand Paris Express line 18 due 2030.
Saint-Quentin, Aisne
Saint-Quentin (Aisne), sub-prefecture of the Aisne in Hauts-de-France, on the Somme and Canal de Saint-Quentin; 52,813 inhabitants (2023), old textile center, Gothic collegiate church, Art déco heritage.
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, a commune in Bouches-du-Rhône at the foot of the Alpilles, home to the ancient city of Glanum, birthplace of Nostradamus, and site of Van Gogh's asylum stay at Saint-Paul-de-Mausole; 9,599 inhabitants in 2023.
Saint-Romain-en-Gal
Saint-Romain-en-Gal, Rhône, France: right-bank archaeological site and Gallo-Roman museum of the Roman city of Vienna (Vienne), discovered in 1967, with domus, mosaics, the Palais du Miroir baths, and a 15 m mausoleum found in 2025.
Saint-Simonianism
Saint-Simonianism: French social-religious movement (1825–1835) founded on Henri de Saint-Simon's doctrine, led by Enfantin and Bazard, suppressed in 1832, whose disciples built banks, railways, and the Suez Canal.
Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Saint-Sulpice is a Roman Catholic parish church on the Place Saint-Sulpice in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, built between 1646 and 1870 and one of the city's largest churches.
Saint-Thibéry Roman Bridge
Saint-Thibéry Roman Bridge (pont dit romain de Saint-Thibéry): ruined stone arch bridge over the Hérault at Saint-Thibéry, France. Long called Roman and tied to the Via Domitia at Cessero, its surviving masonry is medieval (c. 1150–1250), nine arches, four remain, classified 1862.
Saint-Tropez
Saint-Tropez, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur: Mediterranean resort commune (3,582 residents in 2023) famous for its port, 17th-century Citadel, Brigitte Bardot, and seasonal crowds of up to 140,000 visitors a day.
Saint-Venant torsion
Saint-Venant torsion, also called uniform or pure torsion, is the classical elasticity theory of how a prismatic bar of arbitrary cross-section twists under torque, formulated by Saint-Venant in 1855.
Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation
Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation (SBA), a Barremian-Aptian Wealden-facies clay formation in the Hainaut Group, Mons Basin, Belgium; grey lignitic fossiliferous sinkhole clays at Bernissart that yielded the Iguanodon dinosaurs.
Sainte-Chapelle
The Sainte-Chapelle is a thirteenth-century royal chapel on the Île de la Cité in Paris, built by Louis IX to house Passion relics including the Crown of Thorns.
Sainte-Colombe
Sainte-Colombe (Rhône), commune on the right bank of the Rhône facing Vienne, part of Roman Vienna; its 2016-2017 excavations, the 'petite Pompéi française', revealed a fire-preserved Gallo-Roman quarter with domus, mosaics, and shops. Also names of other French sites.
Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Sainte-Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican priory near Lyon, France, designed by Le Corbusier and built between 1953 and 1960, regarded as his last major French work.
Sainte-Mère-Église
Sainte-Mère-Église is a Manche commune in Normandy, the first French town liberated on D-Day, 6 June 1944, famous for paratrooper John Steele caught on the church steeple, its Airborne Museum, and kilometer 0 of the Voie de la Liberté.
Sainte-Monique necropolis
The Sainte-Monique necropolis is a Punic burial ground at Carthage, near Tunis, excavated by Alfred Louis Delattre from 1899 to 1906 and identified as the cemetery of Carthage's priests.
Saints (Yellowjackets)
"Saints" (Yellowjackets) is the sixth episode of season 1, German title "Der Heilige Geist", aired December 19, 2021 on Showtime; written by Chantelle M. Wells, directed by Bille Woodruff, centered on Shauna's DIY surgery and Lottie's strangeness.
Saints & Sinners (2016 TV series)
Saints & Sinners (2016) is an American drama that premiered on Bounce TV in 2016. It is the network's first original scripted series, focusing on corruption and murder.
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity, also known as Saint Sophia and Her Three Daughters, are three virgin sisters martyred at Rome under Emperor Hadrian, venerated from the sixth century.
Saints Row
Saints Row is Volition's open-world crime-action game series, launched by THQ in 2006 as a Grand Theft Auto rival, later owned by PLAION/Embracer; five mainline games, a poorly received 2022 reboot, and Volition's 2023 closure.
Saints Row (2022 video game)
Saints Row (2022) is Volition's open-world action-adventure reboot of the Saints Row franchise, set in the fictional Southwest city of Santo Ileso with criminal ventures, deep customization, and co-op; it scored 61 on Metacritic, sold 1.7 million units, and preceded the studio's 2023 shutdown.