Canton of La Couronne

La Couronne (French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême. Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (1820–1884) was born in La Couronne. He established two modern paper manufacturing plants in La Couronne, L’Escalier and Girac, where he installed second-generation machines almost 12 metres (39 ft) long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 4 ft 11 in) wide.

The Château de l'Oisellerie is located in the municipality of La Couronne, near Angoulême in Charente. It houses the agricultural college of Oisellerie and the department's Centre for Educational Documentation. L’Oisellerie was a fief belonging to the abbey of la Couronne and later could have been the falconry. After the Hundred Years' War, the farm was rented to wealthy burghers, who had to perform homage to the abbot. The castle was built at the end of the 15th century when it was in the hands of Arnauld Calluaud thanks to money given by his brother Jean VI, commendatory abbot of la Couronne. King Francis I stayed there in 1526. The Calluaud sold it in 1678. The castle, which was modified in the 18th century, has been a listed building since 1911. It is now a multimedia library (CCDP).

Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ miʃɛl] ) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

The canton of Val de Nouère is an administrative division of the Charente department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Linars.It consists of the following communes:

Linars (French pronunciation: [linaʁ]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Nersac (French pronunciation: [nɛʁsak]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

Trois-Palis (French pronunciation: [tʁwɑ pali]; literally "Three Palisades") is a commune in the Charente department of southwestern France.

The abbey of Saint-Ausone is a Benedictine abbey founded in Angouleme in the Charente in the 11th century.

The arrondissement of Angoulême is an arrondissement of France in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It has 115 communes. Its population is 181,456 (2016), and its area is 1,867.6 km2 (721.1 sq mi).

The Diocese of Angoulême (Latin: Dioecesis Engolismensis; French: Diocèse d'Angoulême) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France. Originally erected in the 3rd century, the episcopal see is the Angoulême Cathedral. Comprising the département of the Charente, the diocese had traditionally been suffragan to the Archbishopric of Bordeaux, under the old régime as well as under the Concordat, but since 2002 is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Poitiers. In 2015, in the Diocese of Angoulême there was one priest for every 3,680 Catholics.

The canton of Angoulême-1 is an administrative division of the Charente department, southwestern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Angoulême.It consists of the following communes: Angoulême (partly) Fléac

The Abbey of Saint-Cybard was a Benedictine monastery located just outside the northern city walls of Angoulême. According to Gregory of Tours in the Historia Francorum (VI, 8), the monastery was founded by Saint Eparchius in the sixth century. Little is known about the institution after its founding until 852, when King Charles the Bald confirmed a series of gifts to the abbey made by Abbot Launus, who was also the bishop of Angoulême.The Abbey suffered along with other monasteries and cities of the region during the Viking raids of the ninth century, being sacked in 875. It adopted the Benedictine rule in 938. Between 1075 and 1087 Count Fulk of Angoulême handed Saint-Cybard over to the Cluniac abbey of Saint-Jean-d'Angély. While Saint-Jean's abbot was to appoint the abbot of Saint-Cybard, it was not until 1098 or 1099 when the monks of Saint-Cybard were forced to accept the arrangement. This relationship ended in 1161.In 1568, during the Wars of Religion, Protestants seized Angoulême and destroyed the monastery. There now remains only the north side of the abbey church along with sections of the chapels located in the northwest corner of what was once the cloister.