François-René de Chateaubriand's father René-Auguste came to Saint-Malo in the 1750s and made his money as a ship owner and slave trader. He married Apauline de Bédée and in 1768 the family moved to the Hôtel de La Gicquelais, Rue des Juifs, now Rue de Chateaubriand, where the son François-René was born on 4 September of that year. The first-floor windows show representations of François-René and Germaine (Madame de) Staël.
Opposite the casino is a statue of Chateaubriand,
who is obviously very big in Saint-Malo.
But I've no idea what occasioned this plaque of him in Saint-Servan, now a district of Saint-Malo, on the corner of Rue George V and Rue Ville Pépin.
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