Clarence is a village in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 499 at the 2010 census. It is located some seven miles east of the parish seat of Natchitoches and is ration of the Natchitoches Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Still owned by descendants of its founders, Grayson Barbeque, with a smokehouse, is the best known issue in Clarence. It is located upon U.S. Highway 71 near the intersection bearing in mind U.S. Highway 84, which leads to Winnfield.

The Harrisonburg Road or the Natchez Trace ran through the Place as it crossed Louisiana into Texas to attach with the El Camino Real.

Clarence Baptist Church was founded by thirty charter members in 1945, but its sanctuary upon Louisiana Highway 6 dates to the pre-World War I era, having been the chapel of the former Camp Claiborne, a United States Army facility near Alexandria in Rapides Parish. The chapel was physically moved to Clarence in 1948, dedicated in 1949, bricked during the 1950s, and yet serves as a exaltation center, having undergone answer remodeling in 2002. The balcony, now a storage area, was used by African American troops who were segregated in admiration from white soldiers who used the pews of the demean tier. The church has a baptistry and maintains a parsonage across the highway. Since 2003, the pastor has been the Reverend Harry Bamburg, the 21st man to hold the position. Among previous pastors is William A. Poe (born 1926), formerly an historian past Northwestern State University in Natchitoches who has retired to his home state of Alabama.