It is a rural and touristic village, with characteristic landscapes: little mountains crowded with forests and pastures.

Dompierre is first mentioned in a Cluny charter from 951, where the name appears as Domnus Petrus and Domna Petra.

During his journey, the precious statue made a halt at the castle Audour before being offered to King Louis XVIII.

The poet Alphonse de Lamartine stayed on occasion in the Château d'Audour [fr] in Dompierre, writing of it in 1862, "It's a Mary Stuart[3] chateau in a Scottish landscape."

Due to its central location in France, the village takes full advantages of close infrastructures as the Route Centre-Europe Atlantique (east-west connexion road from Atlantic Ocean to Switzerland border), passing through the north of the territory.