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unusual facts about Bourbon Busset



Château du Saussay

At the start of the 20th century, the château passed to the Bourbon Busset family, and the park was redesigned by the great landscape artist Achille Duchêne, joining the charm of parks in the English style with classical harmony of gardens in the French style.


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Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie

Infatuated with an actress (Mademoiselle Fleury), he was thwarted in his intention of marrying her and met his rival, the count of Bourbon-Busset, in a duel.

Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois

She married her second husband, Philippe de Bourbon, Seigneur de Bourbon-Busset on 3 February 1530.

Madeleine de Bourbon

She was born of a cadet branch of the Bourbon-Busset: her father was Georges, Count of Lignières, and her mother Marie Jeanne de Kerret de Quillien.

Marie Joséphine Louise, duchesse de Gontaut

Her twin daughters, Joséphine (1796–1844) and Charlotte (1796–1818), married respectively Ferdinand de Chabot, prince de Leon and afterwards duc de Rohan, and François, comte de Bourbon-Busset.