Jarnac, a village in the French department of Charente, 23 miles by rail W. of Angoulême, where, on March 13, 1569, the Duke of Anjou, afterwards Henry III., and 26,000 Catholics defeated 15,000 Huguenots under Louis I., Prince of Condé (q.v.).
Jarnac
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 291
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