Saint-Quentin, Aisne
For other places with the same name, see Saint-Quentin.Saint-Quentin is a
commune of northern
France[Saint-Quentin Basilica:[
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2],[
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Saint-Quentin is a
sous-préfecture of the
Aisne département, part of the
Picardie région.
Mayors
The mayor of Saint-Quentin is conservative Pierre André, member of
Nicolas Sarkozy's
UMP Party.
Famous Saint-Quentinois
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Dudo of Saint-Quentin (born ca.
965), historian
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour (
1704-
1788)
painter and
pastelist*
François-Noël Babeuf (
1760-
1797), known as
Gracchus Babeuf, political agitator and journalist of the
revolutionary period
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Charles Rogier (
1800â€"
1885),
Belgian statesman
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Amédée Ozenfant (
1886-
1966), cubist painter
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Xavier Bertrand (
1965-...),
Minister of Health in the
Dominique de Villepin's government, conservative
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Jean-Marie LEFèVRE (
1953-),
modernist poet ISBN 2-9514117Museums
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Butterflies' Museum which owns more than 600,000 insects and shows 20,000 of them
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Antoine Lecuyer Museum which owns the largest collection of
Maurice Quentin de La Tour's pastels
Twin towns
Saint-Quentin is twinned with:
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Kaiserslautern,
Germany*
Rotherham,
England*
San Lorenzo de El Escorial,
Spain*
Battle of St. Quentin*
City council website
