Champagne-et-Fontaine explained

Champagne-et-Fontaine
Commune Status:Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:Blason ville fr Champagne-et-Fontaine (Dordogne).svg
Arrondissement:Périgueux
Canton:Ribérac
Insee:24097
Postal Code:24320
Mayor:Pascal Devars[1]
Term:2020 - 2026
Coordinates:45.4225°N 0.3181°W
Elevation M:95
Elevation Min M:77
Elevation Max M:169
Area Km2:25.04

Champagne-et-Fontaine (in French pronounced as /ʃɑ̃paɲ e fɔ̃tɛn/; Occitan (post 1500);: Champanha e Fontanas) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Champagne-et-Fontaine is the birthplace of Philip I of France.

Geography

The Lizonne flows southwestward through the northern part of the commune and forms part of its western border.

Villages, hamlets, and localities

Personalities

For some twenty years the family of Charles de Gaulle owned a country home there called La Ligerie where de Gaulle spent his summers as a youngster. The de Gaulle family sold La Ligerie in 1920.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 9 August 2021. fr.
  2. Entry on La Ligerie in the Dictionnaire amoureux de De Gaulle, by Michel Tauriac, published by Plon, Paris, 2010