Talk:Xaintes

Xaintes (Cher)
The former article under this title briefly indentified a place called "Xaintes" in the Cher (department), Centre (region), of France. This place does not exist as a modern or historical commune, village, or hamlet in modern département of Cher, according to the authoritative site of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales at EHESS Cassini nor at any other geographical database or gazetteer I have checked. The only reference to Xaintes in the Centre (region) of France is at Géoportail, which identifies it simply as a place name in the commune of Paudy, Indre département, (which is near the border of Cher). Searching for this "Xaintes" at Google Earth reveals an aerial photo of a farm house with two outbuildings on the end of a tiny street called rue de Xaintes in Paudy. --- Since this article was created on 3 August 2011, it has not been corrected, revised, or expanded, it had no links to it at all, it has no InterWiki links to an article at Fr.Wikipédia or elsewhere, it contains no information, and thus, serves no purpose.

On the other hand, Xaintes is in fact a common historical spelling variation for Saintes, a city in the department of Charente-Maritime, in the former Province of Saintonge, France. --- A simple search at Google with the term "Xaintes, Saintonge" will show 29,100 results. --- Since nearly anyone searching for "Xaintes" at Wikipédia will be seeking information about historical events in "Saintes", I am changing this article to Redirect to Saintes, Charente-Maritime. Bien amicalement, Charvex (talk) 11:36, 13 January 2014 (UTC)