The Canton of Grand-Couronne is a canton situated in the Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime

Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...

 département and in the Haute-Normandie

Haute-Normandie

Upper Normandy is one of the 27 regions of France. It was created in 1984 from two départements: Seine-Maritime and Eure, when Normandy was divided into Lower Normandy and Upper Normandy. This division continues to provoke controversy, and some continue to call for reuniting the two regions...

 region of northern France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Geography

An area of forestry

Forestry

Forestry is the interdisciplinary profession embracing the science, art, and craft of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values for human benefit. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands...

 and light industry

Light industry

Light industry is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented...

 situated on the left bank of the Seine

Seine

The Seine is a -long river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France. It rises at Saint-Seine near Dijon in northeastern France in the Langres plateau, flowing through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre . It is navigable by ocean-going vessels...

, immediately south of Rouen

Rouen

Rouen , in northern France on the River Seine, is the capital of the Haute-Normandie region and the historic capital city of Normandy. Once one of the largest and most prosperous cities of medieval Europe , it was the seat of the Exchequer of Normandy in the Middle Ages...

 in the arrondissement of Rouen

Arrondissement of Rouen

The Arrondissement of Rouen is one of 342 arrondissements of France, located in the Seine-Maritime département, in the Haute-Normandie région...

, centred on the town of Grand-Couronne

Grand-Couronne

-Population:-Places of interest:* A menhir in Milthuit woods, evidence of the presence of a neolithic population.* The church of St.Martin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The church of St.Antoine, dating from the nineteenth century....

. The altitude varies from 1m (Le Grand-Quevilly

Le Grand-Quevilly

- Heraldry :-Places of interest:* The ‘Zénith de Rouen’ concert hall.* The fifteenth century manor house at Grand Aulnay.* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.-Notable people:* Laurent Fabius, politician....

) to 139m (Grand-Couronne

Grand-Couronne

-Population:-Places of interest:* A menhir in Milthuit woods, evidence of the presence of a neolithic population.* The church of St.Martin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The church of St.Antoine, dating from the nineteenth century....

) with an average altitude of 18m.

Composition

The Canton of Grand-Couronne comprises 9 communes and a total of 49,458 inhabitants (census of 1999, without double counting).
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| La Bouille

La Bouille

-Notable people:* Writer Hector Malot was born here in 1830.* French actor Albert Lambert.* La Bouille has been the subject of landscapes by Turner, Gauguin, Albert Lebourg, Robert Antoine Pinchon and Henri Vignet.-Places of interest: * The church of St...

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| Grand-Couronne

Grand-Couronne

-Population:-Places of interest:* A menhir in Milthuit woods, evidence of the presence of a neolithic population.* The church of St.Martin, dating from the fourteenth century.* The church of St.Antoine, dating from the nineteenth century....

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| Le Grand-Quevilly

Le Grand-Quevilly

- Heraldry :-Places of interest:* The ‘Zénith de Rouen’ concert hall.* The fifteenth century manor house at Grand Aulnay.* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.-Notable people:* Laurent Fabius, politician....

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| Hautot-sur-Seine

Hautot-sur-Seine

Hautot-sur-Seine is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Heraldry:-Geography:A farming village situated in a meander of the river Seine, some southwest of Rouen, on the D51 road.-Population:...

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| Moulineaux

Moulineaux

Moulineaux is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A village of light industry and forestry situated by the banks of the river Seine, some southwest of Rouen at the junction of the D3, D64 and the D67 roads...

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| Petit-Couronne

Petit-Couronne

-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:...

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| Sahurs

Sahurs

-Places of interest:* The church of St. Sauveur, dating from the eleventh century.* The sixteenth century Château de Soquence.* The manorhouse and chapel de Marbeuf, dating from the sixteenth century.* The Château de Trémauville.-People:...

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| Saint-Pierre-de-Manneville

Saint-Pierre-de-Manneville

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St. Pierre, dating from the sixteenth century.* The chapel at Villiers, dating from the eighteenth century.* The nineteenth-century chateau of BelleGarde....

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| Val-de-la-Haye

Val-de-la-Haye

-Population:-Places of interest:* The church of St. Jean-Baptiste, dating from the twentieth century.* Vestiges of the thirteenth-century Templars’ Sainte-Vaubourg commandery.* A commemorative stone column topped with a bronze eagle, built in 1846....

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See also

• Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime
  Seine-Maritime is a French department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France. It is situated on the northern coast of France, at the mouth of the Seine, and includes the cities of Rouen and Le Havre...
  
  
• Arrondissements of the Seine-Maritime department
• Cantons of the Seine-Maritime department
• Communes of the Seine-Maritime department