Antrain

Antrain (Gallo: Antrein) is a former commune in the Ille-et-Vilaine department in the Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-Couesnon.[2] Château de Bonnefontaine dates to the second quarter of the 16th century.[3]

Antrain
Part of Val-Couesnon
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Antrain
Antrain Antrain
Coordinates: 48°27′40″N 1°29′01″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Ille-et-Vilaine
Arrondissement	Fougères-Vitré
Canton	Antrain
Commune	Val-Couesnon
Area ^1	9.31 km^2 (3.59 sq mi)
Population  (2017)[1]	1,302
• Density	140/km^2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	35560
Elevation	6–84 m (20–276 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1794	1,522	—
1798	1,419	−6.8%
1800	1,375	−3.1%
1804	1,543	+12.2%
1806	1,527	−1.0%
1820	1,524	−0.2%
1826	1,633	+7.2%
1831	1,742	+6.7%
1836	1,651	−5.2%
1841	1,567	−5.1%
1846	1,648	+5.2%
1851	1,696	+2.9%
1856	1,613	−4.9%
1861	2,262	+40.2%
1866	1,642	−27.4%
1872	1,630	−0.7%
1876	1,582	−2.9%
1881	1,601	+1.2%
1886	1,525	−4.7%
1891	1,575	+3.3%
1896	1,550	−1.6%
1906	1,443	−6.9%
1911	1,552	+7.6%
1921	1,484	−4.4%
1926	1,417	−4.5%
1931	1,383	−2.4%
1936	1,459	+5.5%
1946	1,682	+15.3%
1954	1,528	−9.2%
1962	1,444	−5.5%
1968	1,443	−0.1%
1975	1,548	+7.3%
1982	1,499	−3.2%
1990	1,387	−7.5%
1999	1,387	+0.0%
2007	1,426	+2.8%
2017	1,302	−8.7%

Inhabitants of Antrain are called Antrenais in French.

See also

• Communes of the Ille-et-Vilaine department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
2. Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018 (in French)
3. "Château de Bonnefontaine" (in French). Monumentum.fr. Retrieved 28 April 2015.

External links

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)