Lésignac-Durand

Lésignac-Durand
Commune
Lésignac-Durand
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Lésignac-Durand
Coordinates: 45°48′44″N 0°38′17″E / 45.8122°N 0.6381°E / 45.8122; 0.6381Coordinates: 45°48′44″N 0°38′17″E / 45.8122°N 0.6381°E / 45.8122; 0.6381
Country France
Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Confolens
Canton Charente-Bonnieure
Intercommunality Haute-Charente
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Michel Duteil
Area1 19.74 km2 (7.62 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 188
 • Density 9.5/km2 (25/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 16183 /16310
Elevation 193–296 m (633–971 ft)
(avg. 245 m or 804 ft)

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.

Lésignac-Durand is a commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

Geography

The commune is found within the Rochechouart meteorite crater.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962289—    
1968399+38.1%
1975352−11.8%
1982299−15.1%
1990228−23.7%
1999184−19.3%
2008188+2.2%

Personalities

  • Antoine Thomas, Sieur de Lézignac, adviser to the king holding the Présidial seat of Angoumois.
  • The Thomas family members were aldermen, mayors of Angoulême, and advisers to the Présidial of Angoulême in the seventeenth century. The family was ennobled in 1639, 1667 and 1736.

See also

References

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