Cruseilles

Commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Cruseilles Corzelyes (Arpitan)
Commune
Église Saint-Maurice
Coat of arms
Location of Cruseilles
(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

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
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

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.

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE