Champagne-et-Fontaine

Champagne-et-Fontaine
Champagne-et-Fontaine
Administration
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine
Department	Dordogne
Arrondissement	Périgueux
Canton	Verteillac
Intercommunality	Verteillacois
Mayor	Jean-Noël Virecoulon (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	77–169 m (253–554 ft) (avg. 95 m/312 ft)
Land area1	25.04 km2 (9.67 sq mi)
Population2	399  (2008)
- Density	16 /km2 (41 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	24097/ 24320
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 45°25′21″N 0°19′05″E / 45.4225°N 0.318055555556°E / 45.4225; 0.318055555556

Champagne-et-Fontaine is a commune in the Dordogne department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.

Geography

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

Population

Historical populations
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	655	—
1968	600	−8.4%
1975	511	−14.8%
1982	477	−6.7%
1990	415	−13.0%
1999	431	+3.9%
2008	399	−7.4%

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.^[1]

See also

• Communes of the Dordogne department

References

• INSEE

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