Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Saint-Amant-de-Boixe is a commune in the Charente department in south-western France. Charente is a department in southwestern France named after the Charente River. Charente is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from the former province of Angoumois, west and south of Saintonge.The department is part of the current region of Poitou-Charentes. It is surrounded by the departments of Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Dordogne, Charente-Maritime, and Deux-Sèvres. It contains part of the geographical regions of Poitou and Limousin. Its capital is Angoulême.