Antrain

Part of Val-Couesnon in Brittany, France

Coat of arms

Location of Antrain

48°27′40″N 1°29′01″W / 48.4611°N 1.4836°W / 48.4611; -1.4836CountryFranceRegionBrittanyDepartmentIlle-et-VilaineArrondissementFougères-VitréCantonAntrainCommuneVal-Couesnon Area

9.31 km² (3.59 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

1,279 • Density140/km² (360/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

35560

Elevation6–84 m (20–276 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Antrain (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃tʁɛ̃]; Breton: Entraven; 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]

Population

Inhabitants of Antrain are called Antrenais in French.

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%

Year	Pop.	±%
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%

References

^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
^ Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018 (in French)
^ "Château de Bonnefontaine" (in French). Monumentum.fr. Retrieved 28 April 2015.