Country France Department Charente Intercommunality Haute-Charente Area 26.75 km² Arrondissement Confolens | Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Canton Saint-Claud Population (2008) 1,099 Local time Tuesday 6:21 PM | |
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Weather 18°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 48% Humidity | ||
Saint-Claud is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
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Map of 16450 Saint-Claud, France
The small commune is located northeast of Angoulême.
Personalities
The commune is partly the ancestral home of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911 (Laurier's ancestor was François Cottineau, who left his home named Champlaurier, located between the villages of Saint-Claud and Nieuil, for New France in 1677 as the member of the Régiment de Carignan-Salières). It was also the birthplace of the phonetician Jean-Pierre Rousselot.
References
Saint-Claud Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA