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.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,050 —     1800 1,407 −5.23% 1806 1,264 −1.77% 1821 1,801 +2.39% 1831 2,007 +1.09% 1841 2,355 +1.61% 1846 2,311 −0.38% 1851 2,340 +0.25% 1856 2,550 +1.73% 1861 2,700 +1.15% 1866 2,882 +1.31% 1872 2,617 −1.59% 1876 2,876 +2.39% 1881 3,301 +2.79% 1886 3,271 −0.18% 1891 3,490 +1.30% 1896 3,457 −0.19% 1901 3,700 +1.37%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1906 3,847 +0.78% 1911 3,852 +0.03% 1921 3,763 −0.23% 1926 3,897 +0.70% 1931 4,271 +1.85% 1936 4,411 +0.65% 1946 4,735 +0.71% 1954 5,123 +0.99% 1962 5,257 +0.32% 1968 5,394 +0.43% 1975 5,901 +1.29% 1982 6,076 +0.42% 1990 6,295 +0.44% 1999 6,861 +0.96% 2007 7,037 +0.32% 2012 7,410 +1.04% 2017 7,732 +0.85%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

• Communes of the Charente department
• Abbey Notre-Dame de La Couronne