Fontanès is a village and commune in the Loire département of central France. The following is a list of the 327 communes of the Loire département, in France. Loire ( Arpitan: Lêre, Occitan: Léger) is an administrative department in the east-central part of France occupying the In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.