Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais

For homonymy, see Saint-Quentin.

Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais
Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	Chalais
Intercommunality	Pays de Chalais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Joël Papillaud
Area1	12.38 km2 (4.78 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	274
• Density	22/km2 (57/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	16346 / 16210
Elevation	27–146 m (89–479 ft) (avg. 111 m or 364 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.

Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France,located 3 miles southeast of Chalais and 44 km south of Angouleme in the Poitou-Charentes region.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	879	—
1800	783	−10.9%
1806	780	−0.4%
1821	889	+14.0%
1831	865	−2.7%
1841	799	−7.6%
1846	817	+2.3%
1851	802	−1.8%
1856	725	−9.6%
1861	737	+1.7%
1866	697	−5.4%
1872	617	−11.5%
1876	603	−2.3%
1881	588	−2.5%
1886	557	−5.3%
1891	563	+1.1%
1896	526	−6.6%
1901	527	+0.2%
1906	508	−3.6%
1911	483	−4.9%
1921	442	−8.5%
1926	429	−2.9%
1931	391	−8.9%
1936	398	+1.8%
1946	392	−1.5%
1954	355	−9.4%
1962	285	−19.7%
1968	259	−9.1%
1975	230	−11.2%
1982	219	−4.8%
1990	243	+11.0%
1999	250	+2.9%
2008	274	+9.6%

Notable residents

• Pierre Papillaud, French billionaire businessman.

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

• INSEE