Saint-Claud

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Saint-Claud
Commune
Market place
Coat of arms
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Coordinates: 45°53′46″N 0°27′56″E / 45.8961°N 0.4656°E / 45.8961; 0.4656Coordinates: 45°53′46″N 0°27′56″E / 45.8961°N 0.4656°E / 45.8961; 0.4656
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Confolens
Canton	Charente-Bonnieure
Intercommunality	Charente Limousine
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pascal Dubuisson
Area 1	26.75 km2 (10.33 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	1,056
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	16308 /16450
Elevation	107–222 m (351–728 ft) (avg. 144 m or 472 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Claud (French pronunciation: ​[sɛ̃ klo]; Occitan: Sent Claud) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

The small commune is located northeast of Angoulême.

Population[]

Personalities[]

The commune is partly the ancestral home of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911 (Laurier's ancestor was , who left his home named Champlaurier, located between the villages of Saint-Claud and Nieuil, for New France in 1677 as a member of the Régiment de Carignan-Salières). It was also the birthplace of the phonetician Jean-Pierre Rousselot.

See also[]

• Communes of the Charente department

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