Le Creusot

(French lə krøzo)

(Placename) a town in E central France: metal, machinery, and armaments industries. Pop: 26 283 (1999)

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Eugene Schneider, head of the Le Creusot metalworks, the leading metallurgical center in France, died in 1875.

Paid for by 25,000 subscriptions collected after his death in 1898, it was placed in front of the Hotel-Dieu he had built.(5) The statue showed the three ages of man at Le Creusot: "the child in the uniform of the Schneider schools; the worker in his work clothes, the old man wearing the cap and frock of the factory retiree."(6)

Schools and the paternalist project at Le Creusot, 1850-1914

Abstract: Donald Reid, "Schools and the Paternalist Project at Le Creusot,

The Le Creusot metalworks was the most famous paternalist employer in nineteenth-century France.

The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War

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