Petit-Couronne

Petit-Couronne (, before 1984: Le Petit-Couronne) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography

A port town of oil refineries, light industry and forestry situated by the banks of the Seine, just south of the centre of Rouen at the junction of the D3 and the N338 roads.

Coat of arms

Population

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

References

External links

• Official town website
• Website of the Museum of Pierre Corneille