Saint-Claud

Saint-Claud

Market place
Saint-Claud
Administration
Country France
Region Poitou-Charentes
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Canton Saint-Claud
Intercommunality Haute-Charente
Mayor Joëlle Chardat
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 107–222 m (351–728 ft)
(avg. 144 m/472 ft)
Land area1 26.75 km2 (10.33 sq mi)
Population2 1,099  (2008)
 - Density 41 /km2 (110 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 16308/ 16450
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Saint-Claud is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

The small commune is located northeast of AngoulĂŞme.

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Population

Historical population of Saint-Claud
Year 1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1841 1846 1851 1856 1861
Population 1985 2800 1860 1550 1995 2115 2108 2103 2041 1881
Year 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 1901 1906 1911
Population 1938 1770 1822 1915 1872 1805 1806 1729 1740 1652
Year 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982
Population 1498 1525 1413 1394 1247 1140 1093 1051 1004 1128
Year 1990 1999 2008
Population 1128 1062 1099

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.

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