Paimpont (; ;
Gallo: ''Penpont'') is a
commune in the
Ille-et-Vilaine
Ille-et-Vilaine (; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Ill-e-Vilaenn'', ) is a departments of France, department of France, located in the regions of France, region of Brittany (administrative region), Brittany in the northwest of the country. It is named a ...
department in
Brittany
Brittany ( ) is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duch ...
in northwestern
France
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.
The name is a compound of
Old Breton
Breton (, , ; or in Morbihan) is a Southwestern Brittonic language of the Celtic language group spoken in Brittany, part of modern-day France. It is the only Celtic language still widely in use on the European mainland, albeit as a member of ...
''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''. The town grew up around the , 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.
Population
Inhabitants of Paimpont are called ''Paimpontais'' in French.
See also
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Paimpont forest
Paimpont Forest (, ), also known as Brocéliande Forest (), is a temperate forest located around the village of Paimpont in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine in Brittany, France. Covering an area of 9,000 hectares, it is part of a larger fores ...
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References
External links
Official website Paimpont
Cultural Heritage
www.paimpont.org
Communes of Ille-et-Vilaine
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