GUINGAMP, a town of north-western France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Cotes-du-Nord, on the right bank of the Trieux, 20 m. W.N.W. of St. Brieuc on the railway to Brest. Pop. (1931) 6,251. Guingamp was the chief town of the countship (subsequently the duchy) of Penthievre. The Gothic chapel of Graces is near Guingamp. Its chief church, Notre Dame de Bon-Secours, dates from the 14th to the r6th cen turies; 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 Remains of the ramparts and of the Château 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 importance. It is an important market for dairy-cattle, and its industries include flour-milling, tanning, leather-dressing, furniture making and the manufacture of wool, wax, hosiery, wooden shoes and sheet iron. Guingamp is a tourist centre.