[3] It is the seat of the canton of Charente-Champagne, and part of the Communauté d'agglomération du Grand Cognac.

Thanks to aerial archaeology, vestiges of enclosures or protohistorical ditches have also been found in the commune.

The parish church of St. Peter is remarkable for its statuary and in particular the rider of the frontispiece, which represents the 1st Christian Roman emperor, Constantine the Great, crushing paganism.

[4] The church hides a funny detail, a snail carved in high relief at the end of the nave, on the altar side.

The garden snail is a symbol of Charentais people, supposed to represent both their mindset, discreet, peaceful, unlikely to get excited, a little homestead, and their attachment to this animal, from a culinary point of view.