CHARENTON, the name of two towns of France, the one upon the Marmaude in the Bourbonnois; the other in the isle of France, near the confluence of the Marne with the Seine.
CHARES the Lydian, a celebrated statuary, was the disciple of Lysippus; and made the famous Colossus of the sun in the city of Rhodes. Flourished 288 years before Christ.