Crozet, Ain

Crozet
Crozet
Commune
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Crozet
	Crozet Crozet
	Coordinates: 46°16′50″N 6°00′45″E / 46.2806°N 6.0125°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Gex
Canton	Thoiry
Intercommunality	CA Pays de Gex
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Martine Jouannet
Area 1	27.47 km2 (10.61 sq mi)
Population (2021)	2,288
• Density	83/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01135 /01170
Elevation	463–1,680 m (1,519–5,512 ft) ; (avg. 541 m or 1,775 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Crozet (French pronunciation: [kʁozɛ]) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

Crozet is nestled at the foot of the Jura mountains in eastern France some 15 kilometres (9 mi) from the centre of the Swiss city of Geneva and approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) from the French city of Lyon. It is also near Geneva International Airport, at a distance of some 10 kilometres (6 mi).

Its chief attraction is a cable car which carries hikers to the top of the Jura during the summer and serves a small ski resort during the winter. It has several sporting clubs: the St-Genis-Ferney-Crozet sporting association (soccer), a tennis club, and a ski club. Other places of interest include the remains of the château de Rossillon, a church (reconstructed around 1830), the Crozet forest, and the Monts-Jura ski area, which runs between Crozet and the town of Lélex in the adjacent valley.

Religious history

Saint Peter Chanel, later to die as a missionary in the Pacific and be declared a martyr and eventually canonised, was parish priest of Crozet between 1827 and 1830, and Church histories credit him with having at a short time revitalized this then run down parish.