Saint-Même-les-Carrières (, before 1962: Saint-Même)Décret du 2 mars 1962 portant changement de nom de communes, Journal officiel de la République française n° 0055, 7 March 1962, p. 2308. is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
The commune has been a centre of limestone quarrying since the Middle Ages, producing white Turonian limestone; stone from its quarries was used in the construction of the Rochefort naval arsenal in the 17th century. The disused underground quarry galleries have been repurposed as ageing cellars by cognac producers, most notably Croizet, a cognac house founded in the commune in 1805.
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See also Communes of the Charente department
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