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Petit Couronne

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Seine-Maritime

Intercommunality
  
CREA

Area
  
12.8 km²

Arrondissement
  
Rouen

Region
  
Normandy

Canton
  
Grand-Couronne

Population (2013)
  
9,097

Local time
  
Tuesday 7:31 AM

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Weather
  
6°C, Wind S at 6 km/h, 85% Humidity

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

Contents

Map of Petit-Couronne, France

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.

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

    • References

    Petit-Couronne Wikipedia
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