Cruseilles

Cruseilles

*Corzelyes* (Arpitan)
Cruseilles Corzelyes (Arpitan)
Commune
	Église Saint-Maurice
	Coat of arms
	Location of Cruseilles
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	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
Area 1	25.41 km2 (9.81 sq mi)
Population (2021)	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.