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Le Creusot

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Le Creusot

Town in Saône-et-Loire département, in the Burgundy region of east-central France; population (1990) 29,200, conurbation 41,000. It was once a coal-mining centre and now has foundries, locomotive shops, and armaments factories. It has given its name to a range of cast-iron cookware.

From the 17th to the early 20th centuries it was a centre for the manufacture of steel, glass, and ceramics. The first foundry in France to burn coal instead of wood was built here.


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Closer to Paris, a new festival at Le Creusot combined rap, tap, and photography
Eugene Schneider, head of the Le Creusot metalworks, the leading metallurgical center in France, died in 1875.
The Le Creusot metalworks was the most famous paternalist employer in nineteenth-century France.
 
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