Angoulême is a town and commune in southwestern France, préfecture (capital city) of the Charente département.
Angoulême (Iculisma or Ecolisna, later Angoulesme) was taken by Clovis from the Visigoths in 507, and plundered by the Normans in the 9th century.
In 1360 it was surrendered by the Treaty of Brétigny to the English; they were, ...
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