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31 unusual facts about Charente


Angliers

Angliers, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department of France

Antoinette de Maignelais

On this occasion the king presented Antoinette with the isles of Oleron, Marennes, and Arvert as a marriage portion, with a pension of 2,000 livres a year for life.

Brightlingsea

Brightlingsea was for many years twinned with French oyster fishery port Marennes, Charente-Maritime, but the relationship fell into disuse.

Canal de Marans à la Rochelle

The Canal de Marans à la Rochelle, also called Canal de Marans, Canal de Rompsay or Canal de La Rochelle depending on the location, is a French canal in the Charente-Maritime department connecting the city of La Rochelle with the town of Marans.

Charente-Maritime

Just outside the city is a factory for the French engineering giant Alstom, where the TGV, the cars for the Paris and other metros are manufactured.

Charles Edward Jennings de Kilmaine

His father was of Polaniran (Ironpool), Tuam, County Galway - see Soraca Jonin - left Ireland in 1738 and settled in the town of Tonnay-Charente in the south west of France with his wife.

Count Antoine de La Rochefoucauld

The House de La Rochefoucauld is one of most famous families of French nobility, whose origins date back to the first Foucauld residing on the rock (de la Roche), with official evidence of nobility in 1019 and since the 13th century known as La Rochefoucauld (in the Charente département).

Galeazzo Maria Alvise Emanuele Ruspoli, 2nd Duke of Morignano

Donna Ginevra dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, September 15, 1962 –), married in Rome, January 16, 1988 Frédéric Philippe Marie François, Comte de La Rochefoucauld (Paris, November 20, 1955 –), by whom she had two daughters and a son.

Georges Darien

Georges-Hippolyte Adrien was born at 46, Rue du Bac in Paris, to linen draper Honoré-Charles-Emile Adrien, born in 1822 in the Charente, and Françoise-Sidonie Adrien, née Chatel.

Gilbert Primrose

His first charge was at Mirambeau, from which he was transferred in 1603 to the church of Bordeaux.

Jacques de Serisay

Jacques de Serisay (1594 in Paris – November 1653 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) was a French poet, intendant of the duc de La Rochefoucauld, and the founding director of the Académie française from 1634 to 11 January 1638 where he was the first occupant of seat three.

La Vergne

La Vergne, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France

Louis III, Cardinal of Guise

Louis de Lorraine known as the Cardinal de Guise (22 January 1575 – 21 June 1621, Saintes) was the third son of Henry I, Duke of Guise and Catherine of Cleves.

Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament

Shortly after this she was ordered to the monastery of Saintes, where she remained for 18 months.

Marie-Claire Restoux

Marie-Claire Restoux (born April 9, 1968 in La Rochefoucauld, Charente) is a French judoka, world champion and olympic champion.

Mélanie de Salignac

Mélanie de Salignac (Marennes, Charente-Maritime, 19 January 1744 –1766) was a young French woman whose achievements in the face of her disability - blindness - were mentioned in the accounts of Diderot.

Mirambeau

Mirambeau, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département

New Angoulême

The name commemorated not only the town of Angoulême, in the Charente region in France, but also Verrazzano's patron King Francis I of France, who had been Count of Angoulême until his coronation in 1515.

Ophrys lutea

Widely distributed in the Mediterranean area and in Atlantic regions of southern Europe, as far as the Charente in the north-west.

Pérignac

Pérignac, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime

Philippe Berre

In 2010, he impersonated an official of the French ministry of Agriculture sent to Charron, Charente-Maritime in order to assist with relief efforts after the Xynthia windstorm.

Réaux

Réaux, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime departement in France

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes

This diocese before the French Revolution, aside from Maillezais, included the present arrondissements of Marennes, Rochefort, La Rochelle, and a part of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

Royal Deux-Ponts Regiment

Somewhere between August 23 and September 6, 1757, the regiment joined the Army of Saxony, led by Soubise, in the area of Erfurt and Eisenach.

Salisbury Cathedral Choir

In 2009 the boys and men of Salisbury Cathedral Choir made their first visit to Salisbury’s twinned city of Saintes, France.

Seguin II of Gascony

(died 846), called Mostelanicus, was the Count of Bordeaux and Saintes from 840 and Duke of Gascony from 845.

Ternant

Ternant, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime

Vincent Zouaoui-Dandrieux

Born in Saint-Michel, Charente, he began competing in 1997 and in his first international selections for France he came 52nd in the junior race at the 1999 European Cross Country Championships, then went on to finish ninth in the steeplechase at the 2001 European Athletics U23 Championships.

Wedge sole

In France, the wedge sole is a speciality of the fishing ports of Cotinière, on the île d'Oléron, and Royan, in Charente-Maritime.

William VI, Duke of Aquitaine

He was freed in 1036, after nearly three years imprisonment, only by ceding the cities of Saintes and Bordeaux.

William Wycherley

Like John Vanbrugh, Wycherley spent some years of his adolescence in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated in the heart of the "precious" circle on the banks of the Charente.


Albert Roussel

Roussel died in the village (commune) of Royan (Charente-Maritime), in western France, in 1937, and was buried in the churchyard of Saint Valery in Varengeville-sur-Mer, Normandy.

Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune

Rochebrune was also the discoverer of a lamp from the Paleolithic era, in the caves of La Chaire a Calvin, in Charente.

André Chevrillon

Chevrillon was born at Ruelle (Charente), and educated at the University College School (London), the École Alsacienne (Paris), the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, and the University of Paris.

ASJ Soyaux

ASJ Soyaux (Association Sportive Jeunesse de Soyaux Charente) are a French football club founded in 1968 and are based in Soyaux.

Audouin

La Jarrie-Audouin, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France

Battle of Taillebourg

The king of France was installed in the Château de Taillebourg, which overlooked the bridge over the Charente, a bottleneck and strategic passage between Saint-Jean-d'Angély and Poitou in the north and Saintes (which belonged to Lusignan) and Aquitaine in the South.

Château de Taillebourg

It is built on a rocky outcrop, overlooking the village of Taillebourg and the valley of the Charente River, in the Charente-Maritime department of France.

Cyril Camus

Cyril Camus is the President of the family owned company Camus Cognac which is based in the town of Cognac in Charente, France.

Fountaine-Pajot

The company was founded in 1976 by Jean François Fountaine and Yves Pajot, in the town of Aigrefeuille-d'Aunis, in Charente-Maritime.

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat

François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat (August 18, 1754 – October 3, 1833), French general and military engineer, was born at Saint-Sernin (Charente Inferieure), of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774.

Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet

Il avait épousé Cécile Marguerite Séraphine de Guinot, fille du marquis de Monconseil, qui lui apporte la terre d'Ambleville.

Louis-Joseph de Montmorency-Laval

He was born 11 December 1724 in the Castle of Baillet in the town of Bayers, then in the ancient Province of Angoumois, now part of the Department of Charente.

Lova Moor

Lova Moor (real name Marie-Claude Jourdain, born on March 5, 1946 in La Grève-sur-Mignon, Charente-Maritime) is a French dancer, singer and occasional actress.

Mirambeau

Canton of Mirambeau, a canton in the Charente-Maritime département

Paul Andréota

Paul Andréota was born in La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime department (when the department was then known as Charente-Inférieure).

Pierre Bellocq

Pierre Camille Lucien Hilaire Jean Bellocq (born November 25, 1926 in Bedenac, Charente-Maritime, France) is a French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist known as "Peb".

Poitou donkey

This preceded the creation of the Asinerie Nationale Experimentale, which opened in Charente-Maritime in Dampierre-sur-Boutonne in 1982, as an experimental breeding farm for Poitous.

Rhum Barbancourt

Dupré Barbancourt, a Frenchman from the cognac-producing region of Charente emigrated to Haiti, and founded his company at the end of 1862.

Roman Catholic Diocese of La Rochelle and Saintes

At the Concordat, the entire territory of the former diocese of Saintes, less the part comprised in Charente, and belonging to the diocese of Angoulême) and of the diocese of Luçon was added to it.

Ruelle

Ruelle-sur-Touvre, commune in the Charente department in south-western France

Saint-Bris

Saint-Bris-des-Bois, a village and commune in the Charente-Maritime department in France

Saintonge War

Henry advanced to Tonnay-Charente by mid-July and Louis moved to Saint-Jean-d'Angély, just north of Taillebourg, the armies intending to reach the bridge across the Charente River, located in the commune of Taillebourg.

Saintongeais dialect

Its area covers the entire department of Charente-Maritime (except the very north), the west and centre of the department of Charente, the northern department of Gironde with its Pays Gabaye and its enclaves around Saintonge, Monségur; also the Aunisien (south Vendée) and Saintongeais (south Deux-Sèvres) parts of the Marais Poitevin.

Seuil du Poitou

Situated to the south of Poitiers, the area is the drainage divide between the Loire, Charente and Sèvre basins and a border between different climatic zones

Valérie Nadaud

Valérie Lévêque-Nadaud (born March 16, 1968 in Soyaux, Charente) is a retired female race walker from France.