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Champagne-et-Fontaine

Champagne-et-Fontaine (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃paɲ e fɔ̃tɛn]; Occitan: 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.

Population

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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ^ Entry on La Ligerie in the Dictionnaire amoureux de De Gaulle, by Michel Tauriac, published by Plon, Paris, 2010