Petit-Couronne

Not to be confused with Petite Couronne.

Petit-Couronne (French pronunciation: [pəti kuʁɔn], before 1984: Le Petit-Couronne)^[3] 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 Show map of France Petit-Couronne Show map of Normandy
Coordinates: 49°23′11″N 1°01′42″E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Le Grand-Quevilly
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Joël Bigot[1]
Area 1	12.8 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	8,738
• Density	680/km2 (1,800/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	76497 /76650
Elevation	2–108 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)[citation needed]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	4,861	—
1975	5,686	+2.26%
1982	6,340	+1.57%
1990	8,122	+3.14%
1999	8,621	+0.66%
2007	9,057	+0.62%
2012	9,278	+0.48%
2017	8,619	−1.46%
Source: INSEE[4]

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

• Ahlem, Hanover, Germany
• Beccles, England
• Vila Verde, Portugal

See also

• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department