Petit-Couronne
Petit-Couronne (before 1984: Le Petit-Couronne) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
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Petit-Couronne (before 1984: Le Petit-Couronne) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.
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• Name — Petit-Couronne • Commune Status — Commune • Arrondissement — Rouen • Canton — Le Grand-Quevilly • Insee — 76497 • Postal Code — 76650 • Mayor — Joël Bigot • Term — 2020–2026 • Intercommunality — Métropole Rouen Normandie • Elevation M — 15 • Elevation Min M — 2 • Elevation Max M — 108 • Area Km2 — 12.8
Geography
Geography
A port town of oil refineries, light industry and forestry situated by the banks of the Seine, just 4 mi south of the centre of Rouen at the junction of the D3 and the N338 roads.
Places of interest
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
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
Twin towns
• Ahlem, Hanover, Germany • Beccles, England • Vila Verde, Portugal
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