Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde (French pronunciation: [bɛɲ sɛ̃t ʁadɡɔ̃d]) is a commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

[3] Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde is the capital of its Canton and also of Petit Angoumois, a natural region of pine forests and lakes in the south-west of Charente.

The D14 comes from Le Tâtre in the north-east passing through the town and continuing south-east, changing to the D155 in Charente-Maritime, to Bran.

The north and the south-east have terrain of kaolinic sandstone, clay, and pebbles dating from the Tertiary period.

[5][6][7] The western part of the commune forms a vast plain open to the west and the relief is focused on the east.

It forms the municipal boundary to the east with Touvérac and it is called the Ruisseau de la Grolle upstream.

[8] The climate is oceanic Aquitaine and similar to the town of Cognac (40 km north) where the departmental weather station is located.

[12] Beanus in Low Latin means student newly arrived at the Academy or yellow beak[13] but, according to Dauzat, Beania could be a popular distortion of Bethania, a locality often mentioned in the Gospels.

Pierre II de Soubise, his successor at the Holy Bishopric (1107-1112), confirmed this assignment to the Abbot Pontius according to a chart kept in the archives of Cluny.

The descendants of Arnaud Taillefer retained the land of Montausier for a long time before passing it to the Sainte-Maure family.

Charles de Montausier was an honest man of integrity but very disagreeable: he became a model for Molière for his character of Alceste in the comedy The Misanthrope.

[17] In the 1870s Father Jean-Hippolyte Michon, author of the Monumental Statistics of Charente, built an elaborate mansion on the site of the ancient Chateau of Montausier.

List of Successive Mayors[18] Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde has twinning associations with:[19] The inhabitants of the commune are known as Baignois or Baignoises in French.