Saint-Lô

/ sɛ̃lo /

noun

1. a market town in NW France: a Calvinist stronghold in the 16th century. Pop: 20 090 (1999)

Example Sentences

French President Emmanuel Macron will pay homage to civilian victims in commemorations Wednesday in Saint-Lo, a Normandy town that became emblematic of losses from Allied bombing when it was razed on June 6 and 7, 1944.

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Playwright Samuel Beckett dubbed Saint-Lo “The Capital of the Ruins” after working there with the Irish Red Cross.

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Those killed in Saint-Lo included Marguerite Lecarpentier’s older brother, Henri.

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When her family subsequently fled Saint-Lo, they crossed through what was left of the town.

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“When one thinks that they landed on June 6 and that Saint-Lo was only liberated on July 18 and they lost enormous numbers of soldiers.”

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