Champagne-et-Fontaine (; oc, Champanha e Fontanas) is a

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

in the

Dordogne Dordogne ( , or ; ; oc, Dordonha ) is a large rural department in Southwestern France, with its prefecture in Périgueux. Located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region roughly half-way between the Loire Valley and the Pyrenees, it is named af ...

department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...

Nouvelle-Aquitaine Nouvelle-Aquitaine (; oc, Nòva Aquitània or ; eu, Akitania Berria; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Novéle-Aguiéne'') is the largest administrative region in France, spanning the west and southwest of the mainland. The region was created by t ...

in southwestern

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. Champagne-et-Fontaine is the birthplace of

Philip I of France Philip I (23 May 1052 – 29 July 1108), called the Amorous, was King of the Franks from 1060 to 1108. His reign, like that of most of the early Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. The monarchy began a modest recovery from the low i ...

Geography

The

Lizonne The Lizonne (), also called the ''Nizonne'', is a long river in the Dordogne and Charente departments in southwestern France. Its source is near Morelière, a hamlet in Sceau-Saint-Angel. It flows generally southwest. It is a right tributary o ...

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

Population

Villages, hamlets, and localities

* Ambournet * au Montey * au Paris * au Petit Bois * au Rouge * aux Pêcheries * Basse Foucaudie * Bois des Chambres * Carabin * Champagne * Château de la Ligerie * Château du Clauzurou * Chaumont * Chez Bidou * Chez le Tard * Chez Peillou * Chez Robin * Chez Trinquet * Combe du Prieur * Cormeille * Espinasse * Fombouille * Fontaine * Fontaine de Notre-Dame * Grange du Breuil * Grange du Mazac * Grange Neuve * Grelet * Gué de Pompeigne * Haute Foucaudie * Jaufrenie * Jovelle * la Boige * la Borie * la Bourelie * la Croix du Rapt * la Divinie * la Faye * la Feuillade Basse * la Feuillade Haute * la Forêt * la Genevrière * la Richardie * la Vaure * la Vergne * l'Âge * Lardinie * le Cluzeau * le Combeau * le Gouyot * le Grafeuil * le Grand Clos * le Luc * le Mazac * le Nept * le Pas de Fontaine * le Petit Breuil * le Petit Cluzeau * le Petit Ferrier * le Petit Rochat * le Pigeonnier * le Quinze * le Repaire * le Roc * le Vivier * les Bigonnies * les Chaumes * les Écures * les Gacheries * les Gagneries * les Gravelles * les Grilles * les Jarriges * les Jartres * les Mottes * les Vergnes * Maine Vignau * Maison Neuve * Moulin Chaudeau * Moulin de Rochat * Moulin du Vivier * Pas Vieux * Plantigarde * Pompeigne * Puy de Versac * Puy Tirel * Ruisseau de Fontaine * Saint-Morézi * Saumont * Terres du Fougereau * Veyrines * Villard

Personalities

For some twenty years the family of

Charles de Gaulle Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (; ; (commonly abbreviated as CDG) 22 November 18909 November 1970) was a French army officer and statesman who led Free France against Nazi Germany in World War II and chaired the Provisional Government ...

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.Entry on La Ligerie in the ''Dictionnaire amoureux de De Gaulle'', by Michel Tauriac, published by Plon, Paris, 2010

Geography

Population

Villages, hamlets, and localities

Personalities

See also