Bourgougnague

Bourgougnague
The church in Bourgougnague
Bourgougnague
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  Bourgougnague
Coordinates: 44°37′03″N 0°25′02″E / 44.6175°N 0.4172°ECoordinates: 44°37′03″N 0°25′02″E / 44.6175°N 0.4172°E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Lot-et-Garonne
Arrondissement	Marmande
Canton	Lauzun
Intercommunality	Pays de Lauzun
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Marie Constantin
Area^1	11.73 km^2 (4.53 sq mi)
Population (2009)^2	285
• Density	24/km^2 (63/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	47035 / 47410
Elevation	53–131 m (174–430 ft) (avg. 125 m or 410 ft)
^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.

Bourgougnague is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	528	—
1806	524	−0.8%
1821	594	+13.4%
1831	628	+5.7%
1836	630	+0.3%
1841	569	−9.7%
1846	576	+1.2%
1851	587	+1.9%
1856	601	+2.4%
1861	564	−6.2%
1866	531	−5.9%
1872	511	−3.8%
1876	486	−4.9%
1881	492	+1.2%
1886	440	−10.6%
1891	405	−8.0%
1896	374	−7.7%
1901	355	−5.1%
1906	357	+0.6%
1911	337	−5.6%
1921	314	−6.8%
1926	348	+10.8%
1931	364	+4.6%
1936	364	+0.0%
1946	346	−4.9%
1954	344	−0.6%
1962	302	−12.2%
1968	239	−20.9%
1975	224	−6.3%
1982	254	+13.4%
1990	256	+0.8%
1999	233	−9.0%
2006	271	+16.3%
2009	285	+5.2%

History

From the 4th century AD, barbarians swept into the Gallic Empire. In the 5th century, the Germanic peoples and Burgundians settled in the area. The town owes its name to these people: the pronunciation in Germanic gave "Burgundiaca" meaning "field of the Burgundians."

Sites and Monuments

• The Church of Our Lady of Bourgougnague (Église Notre-Dame de Bourgougnague) from the 13th century. The choir was painted before World War II by the Italian painter Giovanni Masutti, from Stevana in the Treviso region.
• The Church of St. Lawrence (Église de Saint-Laurent).
• Jolibert Castle (Château de Jolibert) which houses the first of the Rural Family Homes (Maison familiale rurale - an association devoted to educate young people) in Europe.
• The manor of the great moor with its chapel dating from the 16th century. This area is a dependency of the Lauzun castle but was also a hunting reserve of King Henry IV.

Famous people

• Abbé Pierre-Joseph Granereau: founder of the Rural Family Homes (Maison familiale rurale .

See also

• Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

References

• INSEE statistics