Paimpont

Paimpont

Pempont
Paimpont Pempont
Commune
	Abbey
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 48°01′08″N 2°10′11″W / 48.0189°N 2.1697°WCoordinates: 48°01′08″N 2°10′11″W / 48.0189°N 2.1697°W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Rennes
Canton	Montfort-sur-Meu
Intercommunality	Brocéliande
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alain Lefeuvre
Area 1	110.28 km2 (42.58 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	1,755
• Density	16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	35211 /35380
Elevation	62–258 m (203–846 ft) ; (avg. 160 m or 520 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Paimpont (Breton: Pempont, Gallo: Penpont) is a commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in Brittany in northwestern France.

The name is a compound of Old Breton pen "head" and the Latin borrowing pont "bridge" and is first attested in the 9th century in the Latinised form Caput Pontis and then in 870 CE as Penpont.^[2] The town grew up around the [Wikidata], which was founded by the Breton king and Catholic saint Judicael in 645 CE on the shore of a small lake now known as the Étang de Paimpont.^[3]

Population[]

Inhabitants of Paimpont are called Paimpontais in French.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,637	—
1968	1,714	+4.7%
1975	1,559	−9.0%
1982	1,449	−7.1%
1990	1,385	−4.4%
1999	1,395	+0.7%
2008	1,641	+17.6%

References[]

^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Dauzat, Albert; Rostaing, Charles (1979). Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieu en France. Paris: Librairie Guénégaud. pp. 515–6. ISBN 2-85023-076-6.
^ "Abbaye de Paimpont". Brocéliande (in French). Retrieved 2020-08-14.