Saintonge

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Saintonge

Saintonge is a small region on the Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions; with a total area of about 106.4 million square kilometres . It covers approximately one-fifth of the Earth's surface....
coast of France

France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
within the département Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime is a departments of France on the west coast of France named after the Charente River....
, west and south of Charente

Charente

Charente is a departments of France in western France named after the Charente River....
in the administrative region of Poitou-Charentes

Poitou-Charentes

Poitou-Charentes is an Regions of France in central western France comprising four departments of France: Charente, Charente-Maritime, Deux-S?vres and Vienne....
. It derives its name from the ancient Gallic

Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
tribe of the Santones who lived in this area, around the current city of Saintes

Saintes

Saintes is a Communes of France in western France, in the Charente-Maritime Departments of France of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
.

The Saintonge was the center of the French Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism Reformed Church of France of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries....
s.

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Saintonge is a small region on the Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

France

Charente-Maritime

Charente-Maritime is a departments of France on the west coast of France named after the Charente River....
, west and south of Charente

Charente

Charente is a departments of France in western France named after the Charente River....
in the administrative region of Poitou-Charentes

Poitou-Charentes

Gaul

Saintes

Saintes is a Communes of France in western France, in the Charente-Maritime Departments of France of which it is a sous-pr?fecture....
.

The Saintonge was the center of the French Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestantism Reformed Church of France of France from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries....
s. Today, the region is famous for its production of the grapes that are used to produce cognac

Cognac (drink)

Cognac , named after the town of Cognac in France, is the most famous variety of brandy, produced in the wine-growing region surrounding the town from which it takes its name, in the French Departements of France of Charente and Charente-Maritime....
and Pineau des Charentes

Pineau des Charentes

Pineau des Charentes, is regional France aperitif, made in the d?partements of Charente and Charente-Maritime in western France. Whilst popular in Charente, it is less well-known in other regions of France and somewhat uncommon abroad....
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It was the birthplace of the explorer Jean Allefonsce and Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain, , , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, geographer, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, ethnologist, diplomat, chronicler, and the founder of Quebec City on July 3, 1608, of which he was the administrator for the rest of his life....
who founded Quebec

Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
.

Saintongeais

Saintongeais

Saintongeais is a language spoken halfway down the western coast of France in the former provinces of Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois, all of which have been incorporated into the current d?partements of Charente and Charente-Maritime as well as in parts of their neighbouring d?partements of Deux-S?vres, Vend?e and Gironde....
(patouê saintonjhouê, jhabrail) Patois Charentais is spoken in the former provinces d'Aunis, and Saintonge Angoumois

Pottery

This area is also famous for its widely exported medieval pottery, sherds of which are found in large quantities on medieval excavations throughout Ireland and other European countries. These sherds are from vessels made and exported as a by-product of the Bordeaux wine trade (Deroeux and Dufournier, 1991). They consist of an off-white mica

Mica

The mica group of sheet silicate minerals includes several closely related materials having highly perfect basal cleavage. All are monoclinic with a tendency towards pseudo-hexagonal crystals and are similar in chemical composition....
ceous fabric with moderate amounts of quartz

Quartz

Quartz is the most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust . It is made up of a Crystal structure of silica tetrahedra. Quartz has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale and a density of 2.65 g/cm?....
and sparse inclusions of haematite. They are glaze

Glaze

Glaze or glazing is a thin shiny coating, or the act of applying the coating; it may refer to:In materials or engineering:* Architectural glass, a building material typically used as transparent glazing material in the building envelope...
d on the external surface only, with a clear lead glaze, to which the addition of copper filings produces a mottled mid-green colouring. Many forms of saintonge pottery were produced, including Saintonge polychrome, all-over green, and in some cases unglazed wares.

The most common forms of vessel produced in this ware were wine jugs. These were characteristically tall, with slightly ovoid bodies, flat bases, parrot-beak spouts and strap handles.

This ware has been found on Irish excavations from the later 12th century but it is most commonly uncovered in 13th century contexts.

Saintonge

Pottery

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