Cruseilles
Appearance
Cruseilles
Corzelyes (Arpitan) | |
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![]() Église Saint-Maurice | |
Coordinates: 46°02′06″N 6°06′30″E / 46.035°N 6.1083°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
Department | Haute-Savoie |
Arrondissement | Saint-Julien-en-Genevois |
Canton | La Roche-sur-Foron |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Sylvie Mermillod[1] |
Area 1 | 25.41 km2 (9.81 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 4,723 |
• Density | 190/km2 (480/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 74096 /74350 |
Elevation | 450–1,352 m (1,476–4,436 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Cruseilles (French pronunciation: [kʁyzɛj]; Arpitan: Corzelyes; Savoyard dialect: Croueselyes) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.
Cruseilles is on the A41 autoroute, 12 km (7.4 mi) south-southeast of Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.
Population
[edit]Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 1,610 | — |
1975 | 1,837 | +1.90% |
1982 | 2,300 | +3.26% |
1990 | 2,716 | +2.10% |
1999 | 3,186 | +1.79% |
2007 | 3,615 | +1.59% |
2012 | 4,103 | +2.56% |
2017 | 4,431 | +1.55% |
2020 | 4,665 | +1.73% |
Source: INSEE[3] |
Notable people
[edit]Cruseilles is notable as the birthplace of Louis Armand (1905–1971), who served as president of the SNCF and later of Euratom, was a Resistance officer in World War II, before he was elected to the Académie Française in 1963.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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