L'Abergement-Clémenciat (; frp, L’Abèrgement-Cllèmenciê) 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

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, ...

Ain Ain (, ; frp, En) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Named after the Ain river, it is bordered by the Saône and Rhône rivers. Ain is located on the country's eastern edge, on the Swiss border, where ...

and the

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ...

in eastern

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. The commune was established in 1857 by combining the two parishes of Abergement and Clémenciat.

Geography

L'Abergement-Clémenciat lies on the border between

Bresse Bresse () is a former French province. It is located in the regions of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté of eastern France. The geographical term ''Bresse'' has two meanings: ''Bresse bourguignonne'' (or ''louhannaise''), whi ...

and

Dombes The Dombes (; Arpitan: Domba) is an area in eastern France, once an independent municipality, formerly part of the province of Burgundy, and now a district comprised in the department of Ain, and bounded on the west by the Saône River, on the s ...

at an altitude of 206 to 272 meters. The commune sits on an area of 1,596 hectares. Other communes near-by include

Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne (, literally ''Châtillon on Chalaronne'') is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. History The town takes its name from a castle built around 1000 AD. It was formerly named Châtillon-les-Dombes. G ...

, Illiat, Sulignat, Thoissey, Saint-Étienne-sur-Chalaronne, and Dompierre-sur-Chalaronne. The closest big cities are

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

, and

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

Hydrography

*The

Chalaronne The Chalaronne () is a long river in the Ain department in eastern France. Its source is at Lapeyrouse, in the Dombes. It flows generally northwest. It is a left tributary of the Saône, into which it flows between Saint-Didier-sur-Chalaronne ...

flows west-northwest through the southern part of the commune. *The Glenne forms the northern border with the commune of Illiat. It empties into the Chalaronne at Saint-Étienne-sur-Chalaronne *The Vernisson Canal forms the eastern border with Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne and it empties into the Chalaronne at Pontpeillon. *The Payon Canal crosses the ash ponds at Châtillon.

Toponymy

There are 4

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with "Abergement" in their name. The other three are Le Petit-Abergement, Le Grand-Abergement, and

L'Abergement-de-Varey L'Abergement-de-Varey () is a commune in the department of Ain in eastern France. Geography The commune is located in the first foothills of the Bugey, not far from Pont-d'Ain. Highway 59 crosses the commune, which is situated on a hillside. Na ...

. It seems to designate agricultural concessions in the 11th-15th centuries.

History

It was once a large timber plantation.

Politics and administration

Since 2008, Daniel Boulon has been the mayor of L'Abergement-Clémenciat. He was re-elected in the 2020 municipal elections.

Population

Sights

* The Vieux Bourg (old town) has been classified as a ''

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'' by the

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since November 18, 1994. All that remains of the castle is the ruins. The walls of the 14th century

enceinte Enceinte (from Latin incinctus: girdled, surrounded) is a French term that refers to the "main defensive enclosure of a fortification". For a castle, this is the main defensive line of wall towers and curtain walls enclosing the position. For ...

are visible. * A ''château'', built in 1700, rebuilt in the 19th century * A church, consecrated in 1868, built under the direction of Louis-Auguste Boileau, an architect of Paris. File:Site médiéval Vieux bourg Abergement Clémenciat 1.jpg, Vieux Bourg. File:Château Vieux bourg Abergement Clémenciat 3.jpg, Château Munet. File:Église Abergement Clémenciat 2.jpg, 19th century church. File:Monument morts Abergement Clémenciat 2.jpg, Monument to the dead.