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15-566: Th Clouère flows through these communes, listed from source to mouth: This Charente geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Vienne geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in France is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charente Charente ( French: [ʃaʁɑ̃t] ; Saintongese : Chérente ; Occitan : Charanta [tʃaˈɾantɔ] )

30-575: A decline in population as the economic prospects available in the cities and in France's overseas empire attracted working-aged people. Economic ruin came to many in the Charentais wine industry with the arrival in 1872 of phylloxera . During the twentieth century, the department with its traditional industries was adversely impacted by two major world wars, and in the second half of the century, it experienced relatively low growth. The overall population remaining remarkably stable at around 340,000 throughout

45-404: Is a department in the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine , south western France . It is named after the river Charente , the most important and longest river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac , are sited. In 2019, it had a population of 352,015. Charente is one of the original 83 departments created during

60-480: The French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Angoumois , and western and southern portions of Saintonge . Prior to the creation of the department as a single unit, much of it was commercially prosperous thanks to traditional industries such as salt and cognac production. Although the river Charente became silted up and was unnavigable for much of the twentieth century, in

75-811: The Poitevin Marsh (French Marais Poitevin ) is located along the Gulf of Poitou , on the west coast of France, just north of La Rochelle and west of Niort . At the conclusion of the Battle of Taillebourg in the Saintonge War , which was decisively won by the French, King Henry III of England recognized his loss of continental Plantagenet territory to France. This was ratified by the Treaty of Paris of 1259 , by which King Louis annexed Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Poitou). During

90-753: The French Roman Catholic Church conducted a strong Counter-Reformation effort. In 1793, this effort had contributed to the three-year-long open revolt against the French Revolutionary Government in the Bas-Poitou (Département of Vendée ). Similarly, during Napoleon 's Hundred Days in 1815, the Vendée stayed loyal to the Restoration Monarchy of King Louis XVIII . Napoleon dispatched 10,000 troops under General Lamarque to pacify

105-606: The French colonists, later known as Acadians , who settled beginning in 1604 in eastern North America came from southern Poitou. They established settlements in what is now Nova Scotia , and later in New Brunswick —both of which were taken over in the later 18th century by the English, (after their 1763 victory in the Seven Years' War ). After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,

120-840: The department are called Charentais or in feminine, Charentaise . Population development since 1791: The President of the Departmental Council is Philippe Bouty of the Miscellaneous left (DVG), elected in July 2021. Cognac and pineau are two of the major agricultural products of the region, along with butter. The Charentaise slipper (a type of slipper made from felt and wool) is another well-known traditional product. Poitou Poitou ( UK : / ˈ p w ʌ t uː / PWUH -too , US : / p w ɑː ˈ t uː / pwah- TOO , French: [pwatu] ; Latin : Pictaviensis, Pictavia ; Poitevin : Poetou )

135-484: The eighteenth century it provided important links with coastal shipping routes both for traditional businesses and for newly evolving ones such as paper goods and iron smelting. The accelerating pace of industrial and commercial development during the first half of the nineteenth century led to a period of prosperity, and the department's population peaked in 1851. During the second half of the nineteenth century Charente, like many of France's rural departments, experienced

150-520: The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Poitou was a hotbed of Huguenot (French Calvinist Protestant) activity among the nobility and bourgeoisie. The Protestants were discriminated against and brutally attacked during the French Wars of Religion (1562–1598). Under the Edict of Nantes , such discrimination was temporarily suspended but this measure was repealed by the French Crown. Some of

165-565: The number of British citizens residing in the department had risen to 5,083, placing the department fourth in this respect behind Paris, Dordogne and Alpes-Maritimes . It is largely part of the Aquitaine Basin , with the north-eastern part in the Massif Central . The Charente flows through it and gave its name to the department, along with Charente-Maritime . It is composed with the historical region of Angoumois and contains part of

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180-514: The region. As noted by historian Andre Lampert: "The persistent Huguenots of 17th Century Poitou and the fiercely Catholic rebellious Royalists of what came be the Vendée of the late 18th Century had ideologies very different, indeed diametrically opposed to each other. The common thread connecting both phenomena is a continuing assertion of a local identity and opposition to the central government in Paris , whatever its composition and identity. (...) In

195-544: The regions of Saintonge , Limousin , Périgord and Poitou . The department is part of the current region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It is surrounded by the departments of Charente-Maritime , Dordogne , Haute-Vienne , Vienne and Deux-Sèvres . The southernmost “major” town (town with over 1,000 people) in the Charente is Chalais . The most populous commune is Angoulême , the prefecture. As of 2019, there are 9 communes with more than 5,000 inhabitants: The inhabitants of

210-402: The second half of the twentieth century, although industrial and commercial developments in the conurbation surrounding Angoulême have added some 10,000 to the overall population during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The relatively relaxed pace of economic development in the twentieth century encouraged the immigration of retirees from overseas. Census data in 2006 revealed that

225-605: Was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers . Both Poitou and Poitiers are named after the Pictones Gallic tribe. The main historical cities are Poitiers (historical capital city), Châtellerault (France's kings' establishment in Poitou), Niort , La Roche-sur-Yon , Thouars , and Parthenay . Historically Poitou was ruled by the count of Poitou , a continuous line of which can be traced back to an appointment of Charlemagne in 778. A marshland called

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