La Forêt-de-Tessé

La Forêt-de-Tessé commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

La Forêt-de-Tessé
Commune
Town hall
Location of La Forêt-de-Tessé
La Forêt-de-Tessé La Forêt-de-Tessé
Coordinates: 46°04′52″N 0°05′06″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Confolens
Canton	Charente-Nord
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Dominique Ravaud
Area ^1	10.70 km^2 (4.13 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	189
• Density	18/km^2 (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	16142 /16240
Elevation	120–158 m (394–518 ft) (avg. 143 m or 469 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

There is a great little campsite,

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 772 —     1800 716 −7.3% 1806 819 +14.4% 1821 911 +11.2% 1831 904 −0.8% 1841 904 +0.0% 1846 860 −4.9% 1851 853 −0.8% 1856 808 −5.3% 1861 713 −11.8% 1866 705 −1.1% 1872 639 −9.4% 1876 646 +1.1% 1881 663 +2.6% 1886 629 −5.1% 1891 624 −0.8% 1896 584 −6.4%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 554 −5.1% 1906 553 −0.2% 1911 517 −6.5% 1921 458 −11.4% 1926 438 −4.4% 1931 421 −3.9% 1936 405 −3.8% 1946 396 −2.2% 1954 395 −0.3% 1962 339 −14.2% 1968 284 −16.2% 1975 249 −12.3% 1982 222 −10.8% 1990 212 −4.5% 1999 195 −8.0% 2008 205 +5.1%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.