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Jarnac, town, Charente dept., in the Cognac region, on the Charente River. At Jarnac in 1569 French Catholics under the duke of Anjou (later Henry III) defeated the Huguenots, whose leader, Louis I, Prince of Condé, was killed.
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Jarnac is a commune in the French département of Charente.
It was the site of the myth of the legendary strike , in a judicial duel, Le Coup de Jarnac, on the July 10, 1547, beetween Guy I Chabot de Jarnac and Francois de Vivonne de la Châtaigneraie, and the Battle of Jarnac in 1569.
Geography
Jarnac is situated on the right bank of the river Charente between the towns of Angoulême and Cognac.
Miscellaneous
Jarnac was the birthplace of François Mitterrand and the region is associated with the finer art of cognac production since the 1800s.Sister cities
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