page_title: Saint-Lô
section_title: Births
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Lô / Personalities linked to the commune / Births
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Jean Teulé, à la Comédie du livre de Montpellier, 23 mai 2009
context_page_description: Saint-Lô is a commune in north-western France, the capital of the Manche department in the region of Normandy.
  Although it is the second largest city of Manche after Cherbourg, it remains the prefecture of the department. It is also chef-lieu of an arrondissement and two cantons.
  The commune has 18,931 inhabitants who are called Saint-Lois. The names of Laudois, Laudiens or Laudiniens are also cited. A martyr city of World War II, Saint-Lô was decorated with the Legion of Honour in 1948 and was given the nickname "Capital of the Ruins", a phrase popularised by Samuel Beckett.
context_section_description: Jacques Davy Duperron (1556–1618), poet and diplomat.
  Daniel Saint (1778–1847), miniaturist of the 19th century.
  Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), astronomer and mathematician, born in Saint-Lô where he spent the first years of his childhood. A plaque is installed at the Place du Champ-de-Mars on the building where he lived.
  Alexandre Blanchet (1819–1867), physician
  Leonor Couraye du Parc (1820–1893), legal and artistic personality of Manche and grandson of the last Viscount Granville, François Léonor Couraye du Parc.
  Octave Feuillet (1821–1890), writer, was born and died in Saint-Lô. His birthplace is 2 Rue Saint-Georges. A novelist and playwright who gained success under the Second Empire, he was considered a 'bourgeois writer' of that era and was elected to the Académie française when 40 years old.
  Valérie Feuillet (1832–1906), woman of letters and wife of the previous
  Daniel de Losques (1880–1915), cartoonist
  Raymond Brulé (1897–1944), resistant, died during deportation
  Jacques Datin (1920–1973), composer who wrote for France Gall, Juliette Gréco, Serge Lama, Claude Nougaro, Édith Piaf, etc.
  Jean-Pierre Brulé (1929), director of IT companies, son of Raymond Brulé
  Michel Brulé (1932), son of Raymond Brulé
  Claude Rolley, (1933–2007), archaeologist, Emeritus Professor of the University of Burgundy, writer on the art of Gaul and ancient Greece, President of the Académie du Morvan
  Jean Teulé (1953), novelist, who also performed in film and on television
  Jacky Vimond (1961), first French motocross rider to become world champion in 1986
  Stéphane Puisney, designer writer
  Éric Levallois, gold medallist team rider at the 2002 FEI World Equestrian Games
  Florian Angot and Reynald Angot, riders of the team of France at the Olympic Games in Athens
  Alexis Loret (1975), actor who was in the film Mariages ! by Valérie Guignabodet
  Hugues Duboscq, French swimmer, bronze medallist in the 100m breaststroke at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics
  Mathieu Johann, singer, candidate in the fourth season of Star Academy
  Benoit Lesoimier, professional footballer who plays for Stade Brestois 29.
  Florian Geffrouais (1988), decathlete.
caption: Jean Teulé, French novelist and native of Saint-Lô.
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