Saint-Germain
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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 St. Germain, Canadian Senator
- Christopher St. Germain, English legal writer
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Locations
- 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
- Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, 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
- List of French communes of Saint-Germain
- St. Germain, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
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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-en-Laye, 1570, a truce in the same wars
- Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), also signed in the chateau, but at the end of World War I in 1919
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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
- Saint Germaine (comics), a comic book from Caliber Comics
- Saint Germain, an immortal who knows the elemental magic of Fire and married to Joan of Arc in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series
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Other uses
- Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris-based professional football club
- Saint Germain Foundation, a spiritual organization in Northern California
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés Café, a series of nu-jazz compilations
- St-Germain, a French liqueur made from elderflowers
- Germanus of Auxerre (c. 378–31 July 448, a bishop of Auxerre in Gaul.
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See also
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