Charente
Americannoun
noun
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a department of W central France, in Poitou-Charentes region. Capital: Angoulême. Pop: 341 275 (2003 est). Area: 5972 sq km (2329 sq miles)
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a river in W France, rising in the Massif Central and flowing west to the Bay of Biscay. Length: 362 km (225 miles)
Example Sentences
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Thousands of jobs are at stake in the Charente region alone, he says: "Cognac is a product that's made for export."
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
Lie With Me, which was a No 1 bestseller in France, follows a first love between two teenage boys, Besson and Thomas Andrieux, a fellow pupil at his lycée in the Charente in south-west France.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2019
One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars."
From Time Magazine Archive
Born: Nov. 5, 1919 in Paris, son of a wealthy mining engineer and heir to rich estates in the cognac-producing department of the Charente, north of Bordeaux.
From Time Magazine Archive
The department takes its name from the river Charente, which traverses it during the last 61 m. of its course and drains the central region.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
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