Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec

Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec
Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec
Location within Poitou-Charentes region Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Confolens
Canton	Ruffec
Intercommunality	Trois Vallées
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Lucien Schmitzer
Area1	2.38 km2 (0.92 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	36
• Density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	16356 / 16460
Elevation	92–162 m (302–531 ft) (avg. 90 m or 300 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-Sulpice-de-Ruffec is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. It is the least populated commune of Charente.

Geography

The commune is situated in the valley of the river Tiarde. The northwest of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec is watered by the Tiarde; the remaining land includes the valley's high plateau.

The village of Saint Sulpice consists of a collection of houses grouped around the church and overlooking the valley of the Tiarde and a collection of small hamlets: Le Roule at the edge of the town of Couture, les Fantins near Route of Champagne-Mouton-Chenon in the south of the commune, les Raffoux, Chez Bahuet near to the Tiarde, etc.

The commune of Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec is 10 miles southeast of Ruffec, there is one main road running through the commune the Aunac to Champagne-Mouton road

The soil is predominately clay.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1800	152	—
1841	282	+85.5%
1866	227	−19.5%
1886	161	−29.1%
1901	150	−6.8%
1921	121	−19.3%
1936	107	−11.6%
1954	102	−4.7%
1962	76	−25.5%
1968	83	+9.2%
1975	67	−19.3%
1982	50	−25.4%
1990	46	−8.0%
1999	35	−23.9%
2008	36	+2.9%

The population of Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec is now a mix of French nationals and British.

Economy

Agricultural: bovine and crops mainly maize, oil seed rape and sunflowers, diversification into raising of Alpaca s, for wool and breeding

Sights

The village of Saint-Sulpice is centred on its 12th-century church. Directly outside the church is a war memorial dedicated to eight people who lost their lives in the first world war (1914–1918).

On the outskirts of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec, there is a memorial to a French patriot Largeau Gilbert who was shot on 26 June 1944.

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

• INSEE