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  • The name Creusot was first mentioned in an old charter in 1253.

    A Journey Through France in War Time 1883

  • He was first imprisoned at Creusot, then Drancy, where his search document shows that 8,500 francs were taken from him.

    suite française: "our parents practice no religion; as for us, we are catholic..." 2009

  • And so one can really locate it to the conference in Le Creusot in 1988, when we heard from each other for the first time.

    Peter Grünberg - Interview 2007

  • [PG] – Oh that was on a conference in France, in 1988, we had the ICM, which is the main magnetism conference, in France, in Paris, and after that we had the ICMFS, in Le Creusot, and then both of us gave a talk and after the talk we stated "Yes, we obviously found the same kind of an effect."

    Peter Grünberg - Interview 2007

  • I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • I thought for many years that the 2-inch Creusot shell which had burst so near us on the embankment was the last projectile I should ever see fired in anger.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • A new French defense plan created a ministry of defense, extended the Maginot Line, which had been constructed in the late 1920s, and nationalized the Schneider-Creusot arms factory.

    1937 2001

  • The ship is completely belted with Creusot steel armor, which varies in thickness from 9 in. forward to 17¾ in. midships.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891 Various

  • Schneiders at Creusot -- and shut it up, in order to stop the vast sales of munitions of war to the Allies, and the filling of contracts so big that their delivery has hardly begun.

    New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various

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