Croze

Croze
Coat of arms
Croze
Location within Limousin region  Croze
Coordinates: 45°49′11″N 2°09′42″E / 45.8197°N 2.1617°ECoordinates: 45°49′11″N 2°09′42″E / 45.8197°N 2.1617°E
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Creuse
Arrondissement	Aubusson
Canton	Felletin
Intercommunality	Sources de la Creuse
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Didier Ternat
Area^1	22.16 km^2 (8.56 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	185
• Density	8.3/km^2 (22/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	23071 / 23500
Elevation	518–841 m (1,699–2,759 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Croze is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in central France.

Geography

An area of forestry and farming, comprising the village and a couple of hamlets, at the confluence of the Creuse River with the Gioune, some 10 miles (16 km) south of Aubusson at the junction of the D35 and the D982 roads.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	207	—
1968	245	+18.4%
1975	196	−20.0%
1982	211	+7.7%
1990	202	−4.3%
1999	211	+4.5%
2008	185	−12.3%

Notable sites

• A twelfth-century church of St. John at Montel-Guillaume.
• The fifteenth-century chapel of St. Antoine.
• The nineteenth-century château de Mas-Laurent, which replaced an earlier building.

Personalities

• Lucien Le Cam, mathematician, was born here.

See also

• Communes of the Creuse department
• Creuse

References

• INSEE

External links

• Croze on the Quid website (French)