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Encyclopedia Britannica



GUINGAMP

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 698 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GUI-HAN
GUINGAMP , a town of north-western France,
capital
  of an arrondissement in the department of
Cotes
 -du-Nord, on the
2 Specimens from the Gambia are said to be smaller, and have been described as distinct under the name of N. rendalli.
2 Darwin (Anim. and Pl. under Domestication, i. 294), gives this as the
original
  stock of the modern domestic birds, but obviously by an accidental error. As before observed, it may possibly have been the true ueXeaypls of the Greeks.
right bank of the Trieux, 20 M. W.N.W. of St Brieuc on the railway to Brest. Pop. (1906), town 6937, commune 9212. Its
chief
 
church
 , Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours,
dates
  from the 14th to the 16th centuries; two towers rise on each side of the richly sculptured western portal and a third surmounts the crossing. A famous statue of the Virgin, the object of one of the most important " pardons' or religious pilgrimages in Brittany, stands in one of the two northern porches. The central square is decorated by a graceful fountain in the Renaissance style, restored in 1743. Remains of the ramparts and of the chateau of the dukes of Penthievre, which belong to the 15th
century
 , still survive. Guingamp is the seat of a sub-prefect and of a tribunal of first instance. It is an important market for dairy-cattle, and its
industries
  include flour-milling, tanning and leather-dressing. Guingamp was the
chief
  town of the countship (subsequently the duchy) of Penthievre. The
Gothic
  chapel of Graces, near Guingamp, contains fine sculptures.


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