Creusot, or Creuzot, LE, a town in the French department of Saône-et-Loire, 14 miles SSE. of Autun, and 236 SSE. of Paris. Situated in the midst of a district rich in coal and iron, it owes its importance to the establishment here in 1837 of the great ironworks of Schneider & Co., which rank amongst the largest in Europe. They have their own collieries and coke furnaces, have large smelting furnaces and rolling-mills for armour-plates, execute military engineering work of all kinds, especially cannon, and employ over 13,000 people. Pop. (1846) 4012; (1891) 18,467. See
Vadot, Le Creusot, son Histoire, son Industrie (1875), and works by Hennebert (1890) and Weyl (1889).