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.
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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.
Rochebrune was also the discoverer of a lamp from the Paleolithic era, in the caves of La Chaire a Calvin, in Charente.
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.
Angliers, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department of France
ASJ Soyaux (Association Sportive Jeunesse de Soyaux Charente) are a French football club founded in 1968 and are based in Soyaux.
La Jarrie-Audouin, a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Cyril Camus is the President of the family owned company Camus Cognac which is based in the town of Cognac in Charente, France.
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 (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.
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.
Il avait épousé Cécile Marguerite Séraphine de Guinot, fille du marquis de Monconseil, qui lui apporte la terre d'Ambleville.
La Vergne, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département in France
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 (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.
Canton of Mirambeau, a canton in the Charente-Maritime département
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Mirambeau, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the Charente-Maritime département
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.
Widely distributed in the Mediterranean area and in Atlantic regions of southern Europe, as far as the Charente in the north-west.
Paul Andréota was born in La Rochelle in the Charente-Maritime department (when the department was then known as Charente-Inférieure).
Pérignac, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime
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".
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.
Réaux, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime departement in France
Dupré Barbancourt, a Frenchman from the cognac-producing region of Charente emigrated to Haiti, and founded his company at the end of 1862.
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-sur-Touvre, commune in the Charente department in south-western France
Saint-Bris-des-Bois, a village and commune in the Charente-Maritime department in France
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.
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.
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
Ternant, Charente-Maritime, a commune in the department of Charente-Maritime
Valérie Lévêque-Nadaud (born March 16, 1968 in Soyaux, Charente) is a retired female race walker from France.
In France, the wedge sole is a speciality of the fishing ports of Cotinière, on the île d'Oléron, and Royan, in Charente-Maritime.
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.