La Couronne (French pronunciation: [la kuʁɔn]) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

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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 (2020–2026)	Jean-François Dauré[1]
Area 1	28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	7,753
• Density	270/km2 (700/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 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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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]

• Communes of the Charente department