When it was the old capital of the Angoumois in the Ancien Régime, Angoulême was a fortified town which was highly coveted due to its position at the center of many roads important to communication, and therefore suffered many sieges.

He incurred much hostility, but was protected by Francis I and his intellectual sister Marguerite d ' Angoulême.

During the twentieth century the department with its traditional industries was adversely impacted by two major world wars and even in the second half of the century experienced relatively low growth, the overall population remaining remarkably stable at around 340, 000 through the second half of the twentieth century, although industrial and commercial developments in the conurbation surrounding Angoulême have added some 10, 000 to the overall population during the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Angoulême was marginally to the west of the demarcation line during World War II, and thus occupied by the Germans.

Every year, the Grand Prix de la ville d ' Angoulême is awarded during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to an author for his body of work and / or for his achievement in the evolution of comics.

Diane became of favourite of Henry III, King of France, who made her Duchess of Angoulême in appanage ( during her lifetime only ) during 1582.

* 1968 – Eudes, duc d ' Angoulême, French prince

Marie Antoinette's situation became more precarious when, on 6 August 1775, her sister-in-law, the comtesse d ' Artois, gave birth to a son, the duc d ' Angoulême ( who later became the presumptive heir to the French throne when his father, the comte d ' Artois, became King Charles X of France in 1824 ).

His daughter, Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, the future Duchess of Angoulême, survived the French Revolution, and she lobbied in Rome energetically for the canonization of her father as a saint of the Catholic Church.

The French army, called the Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis, was led by the duc d ' Angoulême, the comte d ' Artois's son.

Moreover, Richard and Henry's mother, Isabella of Angoulême, claimed to have been insulted by the French king.

French artists have made the country a leader in the graphic novel genre and France hosts the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Europe's preeminent comics festival.

He was close to his uncle Octavien de Saint-Gelais ( 1466 – 1502 ), bishop of Angoulême since 1494, himself a poet who had translated the Aeneid into French.

François Ravaillac (; 1578 – 27 May 1610 ) was a French factotum in the courts of Angoulême and a regicide.

* 1975: Award for Best French Artist at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France

* Lou !, a French series of comic books, created by Julien Neel, which has been an award winner of the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9-12 ans.

The place was named in honour of the Battle of Trocadero, the fortified position of Trocadero, an island in the South of Spain, was captured by French forces led by the Duc d ' Angoulême, son of the future king, Charles X, on August 31, 1823.

The Place de Trocadéro owes its name to the fortified position in Puerto Real, on the Bay of Cadiz in the south of Spain, which was captured in the Battle of Trocadero by French troops led by Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, Charles X's son in 1823.

and Greek., ( The French edition was nominated for the 2000 Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album.

Employed at Versailles on portraits of the dukes of Angoulême and Berry, he was given a commission by the queen, which opens the long list of those he received from successive French rulers until his death in 1855.

Instead, Louis arranged a marriage between Claude and the heir to the French throne, Francis of Angoulême.

The story Le spectre de Carthage won the award for best French realistic comic book at the 1978 Angoulême International Comics Festival.

* 1978: Angoulême Best French Realistic Work, for Alix: Le spectre de Carthage

Under Charlemagne's successors, the local Count of Angoulême was independent and was not united with the French crown until 1307.

When Francis I, formerly the Count of Angoulême, became king in 1515, Angoumois was definitively incorporated into the French crown lands, as a duchy.

He was born at Angoulême, and entered the French Army in 1732.

* 2001: nominated for the Humour Award and the Best French Comic Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France

On 17 April 1823, French forces led by Louis-Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, son of the future Charles X, crossed the Pyrenees into Spain.

When the French invested Cádiz, Álava was commissioned by the Cortes to treat with the Duc d ' Angoulême, and the negotiations resulted in the restoration of Ferdinand, who pledged himself to a liberal policy.

The French nobles argued against a betrothal to a foreigner, urging Louis XII to marry Claude to her cousin Francis, Duke of Angoulême, " who is at least all French ", and was also the heir-presumptive to the French crown.

In his youth, he studied at two Jesuit colleges in Angoulême and Poitiers, where he learned Latin well, especially rhetoric.

John's second wife, Isabella of Angoulême, left England for Angoulême soon after the king's death ; she became a powerful regional leader, but largely abandoned the children she had had by John.

The following July, less than a year after his crowning as King Henry III of England, she left him in the care of his regent, William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke and returned to France to assume control of her inheritance of Angoulême.

Therefore, four-year-old Francis ( who was already Count of Angoulême after the death of his own father two years prior ) became the heir presumptive to the throne of France and was vested with the title of Duke of Valois.

As first prince of the blood, Louis Philippe would have been fourth in line to the throne after the Counts of Provence, Artois and Angoulême, as Charles was the only member of his family to produce any children so far.

A few minutes after midnight in the early hour of 31 July, warned by General Gresseau that Parisians were scheming to attack the residence, Charles X decided to leave Saint-Cloud and seek refuge in Versailles with his family, and the Court, with the exception of the duc d ’ Angoulême who stayed behind with the troops, and the duchesse d ’ Angoulême, who was taking the waters at Vichy.

Later on in the day, after the arrival of the Duke of Angoulême who had left Saint-Cloud with his troops, Charles X ordered the departure for Rambouillet where they arrived shortly before midnight.

In the morning of 1 August, the duchesse d ’ Angoulême, who had rushed from Vichy after learning of the events, arrived at Rambouillet.

We could hear their voices in the next room .” Finally, after twenty minutes, the Duke of Angoulême reluctantly countersigned the ( following ) document.

Charles refused the various demands by the Duchess, but after protests from his other daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Angoulême, gave in again.

But after Anne failed to produce a living son, Louis dissolved the betrothal and betrothed Claude to his heir presumptive, Francis of Angoulême, thereby insuring Brittany would remain united with France.

Charente (, Saintongeais: Chérente, Occitan: Charanta ) is a department in southwestern France, in the Poitou-Charentes region, named after the Charente River, the most important river in the department, and also the river beside which the department's two largest towns, Angoulême and Cognac, are sited.

Shortly after the succession of William VIII of Poitou, who had inherited it from his father, Blaye was taken by Wulgrin II of Angoulême, who probably vested Jaufre with it.

The convention is the largest of its kind in the Americas and the third largest in the world after the Comiket in Japan, and the Angoulême International Comics Festival in France.

Charles was released after a few months ' imprisonment, chiefly through the influence of his half-sister, his aunt, the duchess of Angoulême and his father-in-law.

Two years after Marguerite's birth, the family moved from Angoulême to Cognac, " where the Italian influence reigned supreme, and where Boccaccio was looked upon as a little less than a god ".