Escaudes is a village and commune in the Gironde département of western France. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The following is a list of the 542 communes of the Gironde département, in France. Gironde (Gironda is a common name for the Gironde Estuary - sound where merge the mouths of the Garonne river and of the Dordogne river - and for In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.