Saint-Claud

Not to be confused with Saint-Cloud.

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

Saint-Claud
Commune
Market place
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Claud
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Coordinates: 45°53′46″N 0°27′56″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Confolens
Canton	Charente-Bonnieure
Intercommunality	Charente Limousine
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Pascal Dubuisson[1]
Area 1	26.75 km2 (10.33 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	1,033
• 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.

The small commune is located northeast of Angoulême.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,051	—
1975	1,004	−0.65%
1982	1,128	+1.68%
1990	1,128	+0.00%
1999	1,062	−0.67%
2009	1,084	+0.21%
2014	1,091	+0.13%
2020	1,047	−0.68%
Source: INSEE[3]

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 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