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Cognac
Cognac , city (1990 pop. 19,932), Charente dept., W France, in Angoumois, on the Charente River. The French brandy to which Cognac gives its name has been manufactured and exported from the city since the 18th cent. The city was the birthplace of Francis I and was a Huguenot stronghold in the 16th c... Read more
Saintes
Saintes , town (1990 pop. 27,546), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River. It is a market for grains, brandy, and leather; telecommunications equipment is manufactured. The town, probably the capital of the Celtic Santones and later occupied by the Romans, was the capital of old S... Read more
Rochefort
Rochefort or Rochefort-sur-Mer , city (1990 pop. 26,949), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River near the Bay of Biscay. It is a fishing port with shipyards and aircraft and machine industries. It has become a popular health spa since the early 1960s. An important naval base in... Read more
Oléron
Oléron , island (1990 pop. 18,453), 68 sq mi (176 sq km), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, in the Bay of Biscay. It is an oystering, farming, and ranching area and a summer vacation spot. The Law of Oléron (see maritime law ), promulgated by Louis IX, was named after the island. Ol&... Read more
brandy
brandy [for brandywine, from Du.,=burnt, i.e., distilled, wine], strong alcoholic spirit distilled from wine or from marc, the residue of the wine press. The most noted brandy is cognac, made from white grapes in the Charente district of France. The label Cognac, fine champagne denotes the finest... Read more
Massif Central
Massif Central [Fr.,=central highlands], great mountainous plateau, c.33,000 sq mi (85,470 sq km), S central France, covering almost a sixth of the surface of the country. The chief water divide of France, it borders on the Paris basin in the north, the Rhône valley and basin in the east and ... Read more
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Jean-Pierre Raffarin , 1948-, French politician. From a political family, he began his career in business and served as a spokesman for a labor minister in the late 1970s before returning to the private sector. A conservative, Raffarin turned permanently to politics in 1988 when he became president ... Read more
La Rochelle
La Rochelle , city (1990 pop. 73,744), capital of Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Bay of Biscay. Industries include naval, aircraft, and automobile construction. La Rochelle is the principal French fishing port on the Atlantic coast. Chartered in the 12th cent., it soon became one of the c... Read more
France
France , officially French Republic, republic (2005 est. pop. 60,656,000), 211,207 sq mi (547,026 sq km), W Europe. France is bordered by the English Channel (N), the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay (W), Spain and Andorra (SW), the Mediterranean Sea (S), Switzerland and Italy (SE), and Germany,... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Charente"

Charente-Maritime
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Charente-Maritime , department (1990 pop. 528,700), W France, on the Atlantic coast, formerly Charente-Inférieure. La Rochelle is the capital.
Charente
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Charente river, 220 mi (354 km) long, rising near Limoges, W France, and flowing W to the...its western course are the celebrated vineyards from which cognac brandy is made. The Charente carries little commercial traffic.
Rochefort
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Rochefort or Rochefort-sur-Mer , city (1990 pop. 26,949), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River near the Bay of Biscay. It is a fishing port with shipyards and aircraft and machine industries...
Saintes
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Saintes , town (1990 pop. 27,546), Charente-Maritime dept., W France, on the Charente River. It is a market for grains, brandy, and leather; telecommunications equipment is manufactured. The town, probably the capital of the Celtic...
Angoumois
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...region and former province, W France, now coextensive with most of Charente dept. Angoulême is the historic capital and chief city. In the region is the Charente valley, with its excellent vineyards; the brandy made from their grapes...
Saintonge
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...W France, on the Bay of Biscay. It is now part of the Charente-Maritime dept. Cattle and sheep raising, dairying, and the manufacture of cognac from grapes grown along the Charente River are the major occupations; oysters are harvested...
Jarnac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jarnac , town, Charente dept., in the Cognac region, on the Charente River. At Jarnac in 1569 French Catholics under the duke of Anjou (later Henry III) defeated the Huguenots, whose leader, Louis I, Prince of Condé, was killed.
Cognac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Cognac , city (1990 pop. 19,932), Charente dept., W France, in Angoumois, on the Charente River. The French brandy to which Cognac gives its name has been manufactured and exported from the city since the 18th cent. The city was the...
Angoulême
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Angoulême , city (1990 pop. 42,194), capital of Charente dept., W France, on the Charente River. A former river port, it is now a major road and rail center. Its paper industry dates from...
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...thinker of the postwar French movement of existential phenomenology. Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in Rochefortsur-Mer (Charente-Maritime) on March 14, 1908. His father died when Maurice was still a child, and he and his sister were raised by their...

Dictionary entries related to "Charente"

Abadie, Paul
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Percier 's office in Paris, and in 1818 became Architect to the City of Angoulême and the Département de Charente. He designed the Palais de Justice (1825), Hôtel of the Prefecture (1828), the School, and the Grain Market...
Roux, Pierre Paul Émile
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ROUX, PIERRE PAUL É MILE ( b . Confolens, Charente, France, 17 December 1853; d . Paris, France, 3 November 1933) bacteriology . Roux was one of the principal founders of medical...
Lassus, Bernard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...x2013; ). French landscape-architect. He designed the Parc de la Corderie Royale, Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente (1982–96), a theme park contiguous to a former naval arsenal. He carried out landscaping works on the French...
Devaux, Henri
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Devaux, Henri ( b . Etaules, Charente-Maritime, France, 6 July 1862; d . Bordeaux, France, 14 March 1956) plant physiology, molecular physics . Devaux was born...
Rateau, Auguste Camille Edmond
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography RATEAU, AUGUSTE CAMILLE EDMOND ( b . Royan, Charente-Maritime, France, 13 October 1863; d . Paris, France, 13 January 1930) fluid mechanics, turbomachinery. Rateau ’...
Archiac, Étienne-Jules-Adolphe Desmier (or Dexmier) De Saint-Simon, Vicomte D’
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...sedimentary formations. His curiosity first led him to study two regions through which he had traveled in his youth: Aisne and Charente. From the beginning of his surveys in Aisne he undertook to make detailed sections and to collect fauna, which he carefully...
Mitterrand, François
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...26 Oct. 1916, d. 8 Jan. 1996). President of France 1981–95 Born in the south-western town of Charnac (Charente) and raised by devout Roman Catholic parents, he studied law at Paris University. In the Battle of France, he became a...
cognac
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology cognac prop. French brandy distilled from Cognac wine. XVI ( Coniacke wine ). — F., f. name of a town in the department of Charente, France.

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Canoeing In France: Messing about on the Charente Wynn Wheldon revisits the lazy, hazy charms of his favourite part of south-west France with four good friends and three sturdy canoes
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...The last time we went canoeing on the Charente, in south-west France, the land was...purpose. But whether low or high, the Charente is a benevolent river, almost motherly...And it draws one back. The region of Charente-Poitou is not particularly favoured...
Tender Notice: Logelia Charente Seeks Telecommunications, Mobile-Telephone, Telephone, Data Transmission Services (France)
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/20/2009; 320 words ; ANGOULEME, France, March 20 -- Logelia Charente said it was soliciting telecommunications...com. For more information, contact Logelia Charente, Office public De l habitat De La Charente 10 impasse D Austerlitz, le directeur general...
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Infor ERP SL Helps Charente Group Plot the Right Course for Growth.
Business Wire; 2/18/2008; 700+ words ; ...ATLANTA -- Infor today announced that Charente Group, parent company of several major...Infor ERP SL (formerly SyteLine). Charente will use Infor ERP SL, a comprehensive...efficiency and drive business growth. Charente Group includes DPM (UK) Ltd, one of...
How to create a 'medieval' masterpiece It may look like a 15th- century manor house but Charente Hall was actually built two years ago. Ross Clark meets the man who built this period puzzler
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 12/17/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...ambitious yet. Six years on, the result - Charente Hall - lords it over 50 acres of former...phoney about the way the oak frame of Charente Hall has been erected. There is not...But not all is quite as it seems at Charente Hall. Look up to the eaves from the...
The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Regime: Regional Specialisation in the Charente.(Review)
Magazine article from: Business History; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...between competing trading centres: La Rochelle, Tonnay-Charente and Bordeaux. Some existing ideas about the trade's development...system emerged, linking international markets, Paris and the Charente. A paradox of expansion as that the trade was not immensely...
How I became the queen of serene cuisine; Sally Burton learns about fine French cooking in beautiful Charente...and finds it even more relaxing than yoga.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 7/25/2004; 700+ words ; ...hands-on lessons to the beautiful border country between Charente and the Dordogne in western France. Valentina is conducting...dinner as you are guided through the western Dordogne into Charente and up the sweeping tree-lined drive which fronts Manoir...
Richard Lowell Neas: (from a Missouri farm to the fields of Charente, a design force worth following). (encore).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: House Beautiful; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...houses in Amagansett and Bucks County, but his French digs, a handsomely proportioned 1770 stone house in the farm fields of Charente, was his chef d'oeuvre. Neas took it from wreck, rot, and ruin to a Xanadu of style and invention in just six months...
France's oyster industry in jeopardy as virus wipes out 80% of harvest.(Business Report Weekend)
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa); 8/31/2008; 700+ words ; ...association for the Atlantic region of Charente, where half of France's oysters are...bridge across a tidal estuary in the Charente region, lost about 700 000 oysters last...behind China, South Korea and Japan. In Charente, about 4 000 people work for oyster...
Why the English are laying claim to LaRochelle again; Historic town that was once a British possession is being dubbed the St Tropez of France's west coast.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 2/22/2004; 700+ words ; ...Wedged between the Vendee and Bordeaux, in the Charente-Maritime, La Rochelle is such a gem that one can...is known as the St Tropez of the west coast. 'The Charente/Charente-Maritime is one of six key areas my French colleagues...