Petit-Couronne

Petit-Couronne is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Petit-Couronne
Commune
Pierre Corneille's house
Coat of arms
Location of Petit-Couronne
Petit-Couronne
Petit-Couronne
Coordinates: 49°23′11″N 1°01′42″E
CountryFrance
RegionNormandy
DepartmentSeine-Maritime
ArrondissementRouen
CantonLe Grand-Quevilly
IntercommunalityMétropole Rouen Normandie
Government
 • Mayor (2014–2020) Dominique Randon
Area
1
12.8 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
8,619
 • Density670/km2 (1,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
76497 /76650
Elevation2–108 m (6.6–354.3 ft)
(avg. 15 m or 49 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

A port town of oil refineries, light industry and forestry situated by the banks of the Seine, just 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the centre of Rouen at the junction of the D3 and the N338 roads.

Coat of arms
Arms of Petit-Couronne
 The arms of Petit-Couronne are blazoned :
Azure, an anchor argent surmounted by 2 torches in saltire Or, and on a chief wavy azure fimbriatd argent, 3 lions heads erased gules. (created 1986)

Population
Population history
1962196819751982199019992006
3901486156866340812286218775
Starting in 1962: Population without duplicates

Places of interest
  • Menhirs from pre-Roman times.
  • The church of St. Aubin, dating from the seventeenth century.
  • The sixteenth-century house of writer Pierre Corneille, now a museum.
  • Several 17th/18th-century houses and a dovecote.

People
  • Pierre Corneille, writer, poet and dramatist once lived here.
  • Marcelly, full name Marcel Jules Turmel, Music-hall singer (1882-1966)
  • Germaine Beaumont, writer and journalist, was born here.

Twin towns

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.


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