Croze () is a commune in the

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department in the

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in central

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Geography

Croze is an area of

forestry Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and Natural environment, environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and ...

and

farming Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, comprising the village and a couple of hamlets, located at the confluence of the

with the Gioune, some south of Aubusson at the junction of the D35 and the D982 roads.

Population

Notable sites

* A twelfth-century church of St. John at Montel-Guillaume. * The fifteenth-century

chapel A chapel (from , a diminutive of ''cappa'', meaning "little cape") is a Christianity, Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. First, smaller spaces inside a church that have their o ...

of St. Antoine. * The nineteenth-century château de Mas-Laurent, which replaced an earlier building.

Personalities

Lucien Le Cam Lucien Marie Le Cam (November 18, 1924 – April 25, 2000) was a mathematician and statistician. Biography Le Cam was born November 18, 1924, in Croze, France. His parents were farmers, and unable to afford higher education for him; his father d ...

, mathematician, was born here.

Geography

Population

Notable sites

Personalities

See also