Mansle-les-Fontaines

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Mansle-les-Fontaines

Total population

2,105

Elevation55 m

Land area5.75 km²

Coordinates45.88°, 0.18°

Demographic figures from INSEE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Mansle is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. It is about 20 km north of Angoulême on the main N10 road. The commune is listed as a Village étape. On 1 January 2023, it was merged into the new commune of Mansle-les-Fontaines.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Émile Marchoux

French microbiologist (1862-1943)

Guy André Pierre de Montmorency-Laval

Marshal of France (1723–1798)

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

French Catholic bishop and cardinal (1724-1808)

Alphonse Edouard Caron

French soldier (1862–1951)

É

Édith Huyghe

French historian and journalist

J

Jean Léchelle

French general (1760–1793)

M

Marcelle Lerme-Walter

P

Pierre Limouzain-Laplanche

French politician (1845–1928)

R

Roger Erell

French architect (1907–1986)

H

Henri Théophile Bouillon

French sculptor (1864–1933)

J

Jean Marrot

French politician (1821-1893)

J

Jean Lavallée

French politician (1805-1879)

Alfred Renoleau

French ceramist (1854-1930)

E

Emmanuel Dedé

P

Pierre Dubois-Labernade

French politician

P

Pierre Eléonore Poujaud

French politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine

• Ruffec
  10.6 mi away · pop. 3,353
• Champniers
  11.3 mi away · pop. 5,193
• Longré
  12.7 mi away · pop. 188
• Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente
  14.1 mi away · pop. 7,525
• Gond-Pontouvre
  14.4 mi away · pop. 5,950
• Fléac
  15.1 mi away · pop. 3,842
• Touvre
  15.6 mi away · pop. 1,141
• Linars
  15.8 mi away · pop. 2,096
• Soyaux
  16.2 mi away · pop. 9,995
• Nersac
  18.4 mi away · pop. 2,289
• Châteauneuf-sur-Charente
  22.2 mi away · pop. 3,554
• Claix
  23.2 mi away · pop. 1,062

Browse all places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Common Red Soldier Beetle

Rhagonycha fulva

Seen 2026-06-09

Thick-legged Flower Beetle

Oedemera nobilis

Seen 2026-06-09

Continental Striped Shield Bug

Graphosoma italicum italicum

Seen 2026-06-09

Pointed Snail

Cochlicella acuta

Seen 2026-06-09

Garden Snail

Cornu aspersum

Seen 2026-06-09

Yellow Sweetclover

Melilotus officinalis

Seen 2026-06-06

Yellow Shell Moth

Camptogramma bilineata

Seen 2026-06-05

Ilex Hairstreak

Satyrium ilicis

Seen 2026-06-05

Walckenaer's Feather-legged Spider

Uloborus walckenaerius

Seen 2026-06-05

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).

Official Identifiers