# Croze

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**Croze** (kʁɔz) is a [commune](/source/Communes_of_France) in the [Creuse](/source/Creuse) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in the [Nouvelle-Aquitaine](/source/Nouvelle-Aquitaine) [region](/source/Regions_of_France) in central [France](/source/France).

## Geography

Croze is an area of [forestry](/source/Forestry) and [farming](/source/Farming), comprising the village and a couple of hamlets, located at the confluence of the [Creuse](/source/Creuse_(river)) with the Gioune, some 10 miles (16 km) south of [Aubusson](/source/Aubusson,_Creuse) 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](/source/Chapel) of St. Antoine.
- The nineteenth-century château de Mas-Laurent, which replaced an earlier building.

## Personalities

- [Lucien Le Cam](/source/Lucien_Le_Cam), mathematician, was born here.

## See also

- [Communes of the Creuse department](/source/Communes_of_the_Creuse_department)

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