Rompéchine

Rompéchine is a Lieu-dit located in Charente, France

Toponymy

The name of Rompéchine does not let plane any doubt about the poverty of the grounds of this locality. In the same area are also the grounds of Spoil-Iron and Spoil-Stupid (plowshare). It is one of some villages and localities of France whose name is related on the hardness of its ground for the peasants or to the production of icelle like Bapaume in the Pas-de-Calais, Bramefain and Balledent in the the Limousin, Bréviandes in Champagne-Ardenne (and various communes with the similar name) or Make fun-Barrel in Touraine among a multitude of others…

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