La Couronne, Charente

La Couronne is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

La Couronne
Commune
Ruins of the abbey
Coat of arms
Location of La Couronne
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Coordinates: 45°36′30″N 0°06′03″E
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente
Arrondissement	Angoulême
Canton	La Couronne
Intercommunality	Grand Angoulême
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-François Dauré
Area ^1	28.82 km^2 (11.13 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	7,732
• Density	270/km^2 (690/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	16113 /16400
Elevation	31–137 m (102–449 ft) (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême. Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (1820–1884) was born in La Couronne. He established two modern paper manufacturing plants in La Couronne, L’Escalier and Girac, where he installed second-generation machines almost 12 metres (39 ft) long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres (4 ft 1 in to 4 ft 11 in) wide.[2]

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 2,050 —     1800 1,407 −31.4% 1806 1,264 −10.2% 1821 1,801 +42.5% 1831 2,007 +11.4% 1841 2,355 +17.3% 1846 2,311 −1.9% 1851 2,340 +1.3% 1856 2,550 +9.0% 1861 2,700 +5.9% 1866 2,882 +6.7% 1872 2,617 −9.2% 1876 2,876 +9.9% 1881 3,301 +14.8% 1886 3,271 −0.9% 1891 3,490 +6.7% 1896 3,457 −0.9%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 3,700 +7.0% 1906 3,847 +4.0% 1911 3,852 +0.1% 1921 3,763 −2.3% 1926 3,897 +3.6% 1931 4,271 +9.6% 1936 4,411 +3.3% 1946 4,735 +7.3% 1954 5,123 +8.2% 1962 5,257 +2.6% 1968 5,394 +2.6% 1975 5,901 +9.4% 1982 6,076 +3.0% 1990 6,295 +3.6% 1999 6,857 +8.9% 2008 7,013 +2.3%

See also

• Communes of the Charente department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Conseil général de la Charente (2009), Dossier pédagogique n°4 : Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-23, retrieved 2018-01-23