Petit-Couronne

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 4 mi 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