{{For|the castle in Northern Ireland|Quintin Castle}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox French commune |name = Quintin |commune status = [[Communes of France|Commune]] |image = Panorama quintin.jpg |caption = The lake and chateau of Quintin |image coat of arms = Blason de la ville de Quintin (Côtes-d'Armor).svg |coordinates = {{coord|48.4044|-2.9081|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |INSEE = 22262 |postal code = 22800 |arrondissement = Saint-Brieuc |canton = Plélo |mayor = Nicolas Carro<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020&ndash;2026 |intercommunality = [[Saint-Brieuc Armor Agglomération|Saint-Brieuc Armor]] |elevation min m = 154 |elevation max m = 220 |area km2 = 3.12 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}

'''Quintin''' ({{IPA|fr|kɛ̃tɛ̃|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Marxav-Quintin.wav}}; {{langx|br|Kintin}}) is a commune in the [[Cotes-d'Armor]] department ([[Brittany (administrative region)|Brittany]] region) in the northwest of [[France]] {{convert|16|km}} from [[Saint-Brieuc]], the department capital.

==History== The area around Quintin has been occupied since the [[Neolithic]]. Early Quintin was originally located near [[Vieux-Bourg]] but, following a plague epidemic, the city moved to its current location. Quintin in Roman times was located on a crossroads but significantly developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, due to the weaving industry and the trade of linen cloth. Still, the decline came with the [[French Revolution]] and [[cotton]] gradually taking the lead over [[linen]]. At the height Quintin had 300 weavers. Quintin was also a monastic center. But despite its monuments and mansions that one can still see the city, it no longer has the importance it once had. The French Revolution and the wars of religion have left the fabric of the ancient and medieval city devastated.<ref>Mickael Gendry, Quintin. Genèse et développement d'un bourg castral, éd. (Edilivre, 2012), p185.</ref> In 1843, the geographical and historical dictionary of the province of Brittany, by Jean Ogée explains that the denizens of Quintin speak French and Breton.<ref>Par Jean Ogée, Dictionnaire historique et géographique de la province de Bretagne,(Mollieux, 1853) [https://books.google.com/books?id=oUA-AAAAYAAJ page]</ref>

==Population== {{Historical populations | align = none | cols = 2 | percentages = pagr | source = EHESS<ref name=ehess>{{Cassini-Ehess|28507|Quintin}}</ref> and INSEE (1968-2023)<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8643952?geo=COM-22262#tableau-POPREF_G1 Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023], INSEE</ref> |1793 | 4336 |1800 | 4073 |1806 | 3864 |1821 | 4252 |1831 | 4293 |1836 | 4454 |1841 | 4112 |1846 | 4021 |1851 | 3763 |1856 | 3617 |1861 | 3710 |1866 | 3690 |1872 | 3411 |1876 | 3331 |1881 | 3281 |1886 | 3319 |1891 | 3186 |1896 | 3194 |1901 | 3198 |1906 | 2948 |1911 | 2823 |1921 | 2451 |1926 | 2300 |1931 | 2190 |1936 | 2574 |1946 | 2768 |1954 | 2643 |1962 | 2593 |1968 | 2727 |1975 | 2857 |1982 | 2814 |1990 | 2602 |1999 | 2611 |2007 | 2844 |2012 | 2826 |2017 | 2838 |2023 | 2739 }}

Inhabitants of Quintin are called {{lang|fr|quintinais}} in French. [[File:Quintin - Hôtel de ville.jpg|thumb|left|Quintin town hall]] [[File:Quintin - Étang.jpg|thumb|center|Quintin seen from the lake.]] [[file:Quintin (22) Basilique 07.JPG |thumb|right|Quintin Basilica]]

==Mayor== *1929 1940 [[Alfred Duault]] *March 2001 2008 [[Claude Morin (Beauce politician)|Claude Morin]] *March 2008 March 2014 [[Yves Briens]] *from March 2014 [[Mireille Airault]]

==See also== *[[Communes of the Côtes-d'Armor department]] *[[Élie Le Goff]]. Sculptor of Quintin war memorial *[[Frome St Quintin]], Dorset, England

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==External links== {{commons category}} *{{Official website|http://www.quintin.fr}} {{in lang|fr}} *{{Search Mérimée|22262}}

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