Charente-Inférieure, a maritime dep. of France, W. of the former; includes the islands of Rhé, Oléron, Aix, and Madame; capital, La Rochelle.
Population (circa 1900) given as 456,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Charente * Chariva`ri