La Couronne, Charente

La Couronne (French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

La Couronne
Commune
Ruins of the abbey
Coat of arms
Location of La Couronne
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Coordinates: 45°36′30″N 0°06′03″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	La Couronne
Intercommunality	Grand Angoulême
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-François Dauré[1]
Area 1	28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	7,753
• Density	270/km2 (700/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	16113 /16400
Elevation	31–137 m (102–449 ft) (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême. Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (1820–1884) was born in La Couronne. He established two modern paper manufacturing plants in La Couronne, L’Escalier and Girac, where he installed second-generation machines almost 12 metres (39 ft) long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 4 ft 11 in) wide.^[3]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,050 —     1800 1,407 −5.23% 1806 1,264 −1.77% 1821 1,801 +2.39% 1831 2,007 +1.09% 1841 2,355 +1.61% 1846 2,311 −0.38% 1851 2,340 +0.25% 1856 2,550 +1.73% 1861 2,700 +1.15% 1866 2,882 +1.31% 1872 2,617 −1.59% 1876 2,876 +2.39% 1881 3,301 +2.79% 1886 3,271 −0.18% 1891 3,490 +1.30% 1896 3,457 −0.19% 1901 3,700 +1.37%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 3,847 +0.78% 1911 3,852 +0.03% 1921 3,763 −0.23% 1926 3,897 +0.70% 1931 4,271 +1.85% 1936 4,411 +0.65% 1946 4,735 +0.71% 1954 5,123 +0.99% 1962 5,257 +0.32% 1968 5,394 +0.43% 1975 5,901 +1.29% 1982 6,076 +0.42% 1990 6,295 +0.44% 1999 6,861 +0.96% 2007 7,037 +0.32% 2012 7,410 +1.04% 2017 7,732 +0.85%
Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968-2017)[5]

See also

• Communes of the Charente department
• Abbey Notre-Dame de La Couronne

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Conseil général de la Charente (2009), Dossier pédagogique n°4 : Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015, retrieved 23 January 2018
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Couronne, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE