Le Creusot | |
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 Location of Le Creusot | |
  Le Creusot  Le Creusot | |
| Coordinates:46°48′05″N4°26′28″E / 46.8014°N 4.4411°E /46.8014; 4.4411 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté |
| Department | Saône-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Autun |
| Canton | Le Creusot-1 and2 |
| Intercommunality | CU Creusot Montceau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | David Marti[1] |
Area 1 | 18.11 km2 (6.99 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 20,536 |
| • Density | 1,134/km2 (2,937/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 71153 /71200 |
| Elevation | 316–516 m (1,037–1,693 ft) (avg. 347 m or 1,138 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Creusot (pronounced[ləkʁøzo]) is acommune and industrial town in theSaône-et-Loiredepartment,region ofBourgogne-Franche-Comté, easternFrance.
The inhabitants are known as Creusotins. Formerly a mining town, its economy is now dominated by metallurgical companies such asArcelorMittal,Schneider Electric, andAlstom.
Since the 1990s, the town has been developing its tourism credentials. Its main attraction is theParc des Combes. TheCreusot steam hammer is exposed as a tourist attraction in a square at the entrance to the town from the south.
Le Creusot is also the second educational centre of the Bourgogne (afterDijon), with itsIUT and the Condorcet university centre.
In 1836, iron ore mines and forges around Le Creusot were bought byAdolphe Schneider and his brotherEugène. They developed a business in steel, railways, armaments, and shipbuilding. The Schneider empire developed much of the town itself, until it was much reduced in the second half of the twentieth century. It eventually became known asSchneider Electric. Thesteel forgings for the French nuclear power plants as well as the special alloys for theTGV trains were manufactured in Le Creusot.
On 17 October 1942 the Schneider factory was targeted by theRAF in a daylight raid designatedOperation Robinson.
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About 5 km (3 mi) south-east of town centre is theLe Creusot TGV station, a train station on theLGV Sud-Est line, which links the area to Paris, Lyon and beyond withhigh-speed rail.Le Creusot station is closer to the city centre, and is served by regional trains towards Nevers, Montchanin and Dijon.
Le Creusot istwinned with:
| Climate data for Le Creusot-Saint-Symphorien-de-Marmagne, elevation 349 m (1,145 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1974–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 17.0 (62.6) | 21.0 (69.8) | 25.0 (77.0) | 29.0 (84.2) | 32.0 (89.6) | 38.0 (100.4) | 42.0 (107.6) | 40.0 (104.0) | 37.0 (98.6) | 29.1 (84.4) | 22.6 (72.7) | 18.0 (64.4) | 42.0 (107.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 6.3 (43.3) | 8.0 (46.4) | 12.5 (54.5) | 16.0 (60.8) | 19.8 (67.6) | 23.9 (75.0) | 26.3 (79.3) | 26.0 (78.8) | 21.6 (70.9) | 16.3 (61.3) | 10.2 (50.4) | 6.9 (44.4) | 16.1 (61.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 3.1 (37.6) | 4.0 (39.2) | 7.3 (45.1) | 10.3 (50.5) | 14.1 (57.4) | 17.8 (64.0) | 19.8 (67.6) | 19.4 (66.9) | 15.6 (60.1) | 11.7 (53.1) | 6.5 (43.7) | 3.8 (38.8) | 11.1 (52.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 0.0 (32.0) | 0.0 (32.0) | 2.2 (36.0) | 4.6 (40.3) | 8.4 (47.1) | 11.6 (52.9) | 13.2 (55.8) | 12.9 (55.2) | 9.7 (49.5) | 7.0 (44.6) | 2.9 (37.2) | 0.7 (33.3) | 6.1 (43.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −22.0 (−7.6) | −22.0 (−7.6) | −12.5 (9.5) | −6.0 (21.2) | −3.5 (25.7) | 1.5 (34.7) | 2.0 (35.6) | 3.0 (37.4) | −2.0 (28.4) | −6.5 (20.3) | −11.5 (11.3) | −17.0 (1.4) | −22.0 (−7.6) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 91.1 (3.59) | 74.3 (2.93) | 72.2 (2.84) | 73.5 (2.89) | 90.1 (3.55) | 69.7 (2.74) | 69.1 (2.72) | 67.6 (2.66) | 70.6 (2.78) | 87.3 (3.44) | 106.4 (4.19) | 102.5 (4.04) | 974.4 (38.36) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 13.1 | 11.4 | 10.8 | 10.8 | 11.7 | 9.4 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 9.0 | 11.7 | 13.3 | 14.3 | 132.8 |
| Source: Meteociel[5] | |||||||||||||
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