Aiguillon is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 of the Lot-et-Garonne

Lot-et-Garonne

Lot-et-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers.-History:Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...

 department in south-western France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

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It lies near the two rivers junction that gives name to the department.

History

Attached to the English crown in 1318, it was conquered by Du Guesclin

Bertrand du Guesclin

Bertrand du Guesclin , known as the Eagle of Brittany or the Black Dog of Brocéliande, was a Breton knight and French military commander during the Hundred Years' War. He was Constable of France from 1370 to his death...

 in 1370. The future Jean II conducted a large-scale but unsuccessful siege of the place in 1346.
In 1599 it was converted in center of a duchy.

Demographics

Population in:

• 1962= 3409
• 1968= 3754
• 1975= 3867
• 1982= 4121
• 1990= 4169
• 1999= 4219

See also

• Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department
• Duke of Aiguillon
  Duke of Aiguillon
  Duke of Aiguillon was a title of nobility in the peerage of France created in 1599 by Henry IV of France for Charles, Duke of Mayenne. It takes its name from the town of Aiguillon.-List of Dukes of Aiguillon, 1599—1789:...