| Clarques | |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason de Clarques.svg |
| Arrondissement: | Saint-Omer |
| Canton: | Fruges |
| Insee: | 62226 |
| Postal Code: | 62129 |
| Commune: | Saint-Augustin |
| Coordinates: | 50.6472°N 2.2783°W |
| Elevation M: | 66 |
| Elevation Min M: | 29 |
| Elevation Max M: | 97 |
| Area Km2: | 6.96 |
| Population: | 309 |
| Population Date: | 2018 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Clarques (in French pronounced as /klaʁk/; Clarque) is a former commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Saint-Augustin.[2] Its population was 309 in 2018.[1]
A farming village situated 8 miles (13 km) south of Saint-Omer, on the D190 and D192 road junction. The A26 autoroute passes by the commune just away.
The present chateau was built in the early 1780s by Augustin Titelouze de Gournay, a king's musketeer, before his marriage to Marie-Therese de Feuchin in 1788. The house was enlarged in 1905 by Joseph de Gournay from the plans of architect Lillois Vilain, adding the protruding wings.