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Sart-en-Fagne (in Walloon Li Sårt-è-Fagne) is a section of the Belgian municipality of Philippeville situated in the Walloon Region in the province of Namur. The nickname of the inhabitants is "Lapins" ("Rabbits").

The village is bordered to the north by Merlemont, to the east by Surice, to the south by Romerée and Matagne-la-Petite and to the west by Villers-le-Gambon.

It was a municipality in its own right before the local government merger in 1977.

History
In 1180, the village was mentioned in a bull of Pope Alexander III under the name of Sart-Sainte-Marie (Sarto sanctae Mariae); indeed, part of the village had been given to Florennes abbey by Wiscende, wife of Bernard de Roliers (Roly). In 1233, Yolande, the Lord of Hierges's widow, gave the tithe and the patronage of the church to Leffe abbey. This dual attachment sparked off debates which ended in 1539 due to an agreement between the two religious institutions.

During the sixteenth century, the seignory belonged to the Glymes branch and then, by purchase, to a dean of the council, or deanery, of Florennes. During the following century, it became the property of the Roly family, and finally, during the eighteenth century, the property of the Groesbeecks.

It was a farming village surrounded by woodland.

The village numbers 155 inhabitants living in 38 houses. There were 9 horses, 2 foals, 60 head of cattle, 27 calves and 3 pigs. The main economic activities centred on forestry, a flour mill and a grist mill (barley residue), and a brewery.
 * Situation in 1830

On 15 May 1940, eight soldiers of the 13th Zouaves were killed in Rue Notre Dame, outside the first house coming from Merlemont. They are commemorated by a stone tablet, affixed to the rubble wall and sheltered by a canopy.
 * French memorial

On this day, during aerial combat above the area just before noon, an aircraft tank fell on the school near the church, causing a terrible blaze and killing the nine children present and their young primary school teacher. In a few minutes, the village lost most of its young children, to the distress of every family. Only four children escaped this misfortune: two were staying with relatives in another village, a 5-year-old was confined to bed with the flu, and one little girl happened to be absent.
 * The dramatic day of 24 January 1944

Three days later, the children's funeral was presided over by Mgr. Charue, bishop of Namur, in the centre of a huge crowd from all over the area. A monument was constructed next to the church and in the school a copper plaque bears the name of the deceased children. The church, built in 1875, was heavily damaged, and was restored in 1967 with a double stained-glass window in memory of the children and their schoolteacher, who was from Gimnée.

Anecdote
A miraculous survivor in Surice in 1914 – On 24 and 25 August, the invading Germans massacred 69 persons in this village (half of them refugees from others villages) and set fire to 130 houses. Émile Prangey, from Sart-en-Fagne, was also supposed to be shot, but survived because he was recognized by a German officer who had met him at the Aubrives factory in France before the war.