Crèvecœur or Creve Coeur may refer to: * A French term for

broken heart Broken heart (also known as a heartbreak or heartache) is a metaphor for the intense emotional stress or pain one feels at experiencing great and deep longing. The concept is cross-cultural, often cited with reference to unreciprocated or lost ...

Crèvecœur chicken The Crèvecœur is an endangered historic breed of crested chicken from the Pays d'Auge, in the Calvados département of Normandy, in north-western France. It is named after the commune of Crèvecœur-en-Auge. It is related to the La Flèche an ...

, a French poultry breed *

Creve Coeur, Illinois Creve Coeur is a village in Groveland Township, Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the village population was 4,934. Creve Coeur is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical ...

, a village near Peoria, Illinois on the Illinois River in Tazewell County *

Fort Crevecoeur Fort Crevecoeur ( French: ''Fort Crèvecœur'') was the first public building erected by Europeans within the boundaries of the modern state of Illinois and the first fort built in the West by the French. It was founded on the east bank of the ...

, a former French fort near present-day Creve Coeur, Illinois *

Creve Coeur, Missouri Creve Coeur is a city located in mid St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, a part of Greater St. Louis. Its population was 18,834 at the 2020 census. Creve Coeur borders and shares a ZIP code (63141) with the neighboring city of Town and ...

, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri * ''Crèvecoeur'' (film), a 1955 documentary film * Fort Crevecoeur, Dutch slave fort erected in Accra, Ghana in 1649, renamed to Ussher Fort after it came under British control * Creve Coeur, Mauritius

French communes

* Crèvecœur-en-Auge, in the Calvados department *

Crèvecœur-en-Brie Crèvecœur-en-Brie (, literally ''Crèvecœur in Brie'') is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. Demographics Inhabitants of Crèvecœur-en-Brie are called ''Crépicordiens''. See al ...

, in the Seine-et-Marne department *

Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut Crèvecœur-sur-l'Escaut (, literally ''Crèvecœur on the Scheldt'') is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. Heraldry See also *Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord depar ...

, in the Nord department * Crèvecœur-le-Petit, in the Oise department *

Crèvecœur-le-Grand Crèvecœur-le-Grand () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 679 communes of the Oise department of France. The communes cooperate in the following ...

, in the Oise department

People with the surname

J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur (; December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813), naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer. Biography Crèvecœur was born on December 31, 1735, in Caen, Normandy, France, ...

(1735–1813), French-American writer *

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (; 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes ( ), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of ...

(1788–1868), French geologist * Pascaline Crêvecoeur (born 1982), Belgian-French actress *

Philippe de Crèvecœur d'Esquerdes Philippe de Crèvecœur, seigneur d'Esquerdes (1418–1494), was a French military commander and a Marshal of France in 1486. He is also known as ''Maréchal des Cordes'' or ''Maréchal d'Esquerdes''. Biography He was the son of Jacques († 143 ...

(1418–1494), French military commander {{DEFAULTSORT:Crevecoeur