Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
La Couronne (French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
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.[3]
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References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Conseil général de la Charente (2009), Dossier pédagogique n°4 : Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015, retrieved 23 January 2018
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Couronne, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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