François is a village and commune in the Deux-Sèvres 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 305 communes of the Deux-Sèvres département, in France. Deux-Sèvres is a French ''département''. ("Deux-Sèvres" is also a name occasionally used for Saint-Porchaire ware, a type of Faïence 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.