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Petit-Couronne
Petit-Couronne
Commune
	Pierre Corneille's house
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 49°23′11″N 1°01′42″E / 49.3864°N 1.0283°E
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement	Rouen
Canton	Le Grand-Quevilly
Intercommunality	Métropole Rouen Normandie
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Joël Bigot
Area 1	12.8 km2 (4.9 sq mi)
Population (2021)	8,688
• 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.

Petit-Couronne (French pronunciation: [pəti kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography edit

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 edit

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 edit

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^[3]

Places of interest edit

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 edit

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 edit

References edit

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE