Angoulême (Angoulême`) , an old French city on the Charente, 83 m. NE. of Bordeaux, with a fine cathedral, the birthplace of Marguerite de Valois and Balzac.
Population (circa 1900) given as 31,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Angostu`ra * Angoulême, Charles de Valois, Duc d'