France Commune of Le Creusot Factory in Le Creusot
Région	Bourgogne (capital)
Département	Saône-et-Loire (préfecture)
Arrondissement	Autun
Canton	Chief town of 2 cantons
Intercommunality	Communauté urbaine Creusot-Montceau
Mayor	André Billardon (2001-2008)
Land area¹	18.11 km²
Population² (2003)	26,283
Population density (1999)	1,451 pers./km²
Altitude	316 m - 516 m (avg. 347 m)
INSEE/Postal code	71153 / 71200
1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km². 2 Not counting those already counted in another commune (such as students and military personnel).

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Coordinates: 04° 26' 28" E, 46° 48' 05" N

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Description

Le Creusot is a town in the Bourgogne region with a population of 26,283 people known as Creusotins. Its economy is dominated by metallurgical companies such as Industeel and Alstom. Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: ALO) is a large French company whose businesses are power generation and manufacturing trains (e. ...

Since the 1990s, the town has been developing its touristic credentials. Its main attraction is the Parc des Combes. See also 1990s, the band The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, sometimes informally including popular culture from 2000 and 2001. ...

Le Creusot is also the second educational centre of the Bourgogne (after Dijon), with its IUT and the Condorcet university centre. Location within France Street in the center of Dijon Arc de triomphe known as the Porte Guillaume, on Place Darcy in the center of Dijon Dijon and suburbs Dijon ( ) is a city in eastern France, the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Côte-dOr département and of... Islamic University of Technology is an educational and research institution in the fields of engineering and technology and technical and vocational education. ...

Famous Creusotins

• Christian Bobin (1951), writer
• Claudie André, astronaut
• Painter Raymond Rochette paid homage to the workers of Creusot throughout his work.

Claudie Haigneré (formerly Claudie André-Deshays 13 May 1957 ) is a former French cosmonaut. ...

External link

• (French) Official website