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'Saint-Quentin' is a commune of northern France. It has been identified as the ''Augusta Veromanduorum'' of antiquity. It is named for Saint Quentin, who is said to have been martyred here in the 3rd century.

Contents

Administration

Miscellaneous

Mayors

Famous ''saint-quentinois''

Museums

Sister cities

See also

External links

Administration

Saint-Quentin is a ''sous-préfecture'' of the Aisne ''département'', part of the Picardie ''région''. Although Saint-Quentin is by far the largest city in Aisne, the ''préfecture'' (capital) resides in the third-largest city of Laon.

Miscellaneous

Mayors

The mayor of Saint-Quentin is conservative Pierre André, member of Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP Party.

List of the Saint-Quentin's mayors

From	To	Name	Politic
march 1995	Not finished	Pierre André	Conservative
1989	1995	Daniel Le Meur	Communist
1983	1989	Jacques Braconnier	Conservative
1977	1983	Daniel Le Meur	Communist
1966	1977	Jacques Braconnier	Conservative

Famous ''saint-quentinois''

★ Dudo of Saint-Quentin (born ca. 965), historian

★ Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1704-1788), painter and pastelist

★ Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755-1834), botanist and explorer

★ François-Noël Babeuf (1760-1797), known as ''Gracchus Babeuf'', political agitator and journalist of the revolutionary period

★ Charles Rogier (1800–1885), Belgian statesman

★ Amédée Ozenfant (1886-1966), cubist painter

★ Jean-Marie Lefèvre (1953-...), modernist and minimalist poet

★ Xavier Bertrand (1965-...), Minister of Health in Dominique de Villepin's government, conservative

Museums

★ 'Butterflies' Museum' which owns more than 600,000 insects and shows 20,000 of them

★ 'Antoine Lecuyer Museum' which owns the largest collection of Maurice Quentin de La Tour's pastels

Sister cities

Saint-Quentin is paired with:

★ Kaiserslautern, Germany

★ Rotherham, England

★ San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

See also

★ Battle of St. Quentin

External links

★ Saint-Quentin Basilica

★ Saint-Quentin Basilica

★ Official website