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

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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 Flè ...

, 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 Statistica ...

, 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 *

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, 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

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Fort after it came under British control *

Creve Coeur, Mauritius Creve Coeur is a village in the Pamplemousses district in Mauritius Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes ...

French communes

Crèvecœur-en-Auge Crèvecœur-en-Auge (, ) is a former commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mézidon Vallée d'Auge.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 a ...

, 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 647 communes of the Nord d ...

, in the Nord department *

Crèvecœur-le-Petit Crèvecœur-le-Petit () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. See also *Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, department of Fran ...

, in the Oise department *

Crèvecœur-le-Grand Crèvecœur-le-Grand () is a commune in the Oise department in northern France. Population See also * Communes of the Oise department The following is a list of the 680 Communes of France, communes of the Oise Departments of France, depa ...

, in the Oise department

People with the surname

* J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735–1813), French-American writer * Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (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 († 1436 ...

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