La Couronne, Charente


La Couronne is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
The commune lies to the southwest of Angoulême.
Jean-Edmond Laroche-Joubert 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 long making sheets of paper 1.25 to 1.5 metres wide.

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