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7 unusual facts about Bussy


Bussy-le-Grand

The American painter Douglas Gorsline (1913-1985) lived in the village for twenty years.

Bussy-sur-Morges

In 1961 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Chardonney-sur-Morges to form a new and larger municipality Bussy-Chardonney.

Chardonney-sur-Morges

In 1961 the municipality was merged with the neighboring municipality Bussy-sur-Morges to form a new and larger municipality Bussy-Chardonney.

Château de Bussy-Rabutin

The Château de Bussy-Rabutin, also known as Château de Bussy-le-Grand, is a château which developed from a 12th-century castle, located in the commune of Bussy-le-Grand, in the Côte-d'Or department, Bourgogne, eastern France.

Émilie Desjeux

Émilie Desjeux (born 9 October 1861 in Joigny; died 23 April 1957 in Bussy-en-Othe) was a French woman painter.

Georges II d'Amboise

A member of the House of Amboise, Georges d'Amboise was born in the Kingdom of France in 1488, one of the sixteen children of Jean d'Amboise, signeur of Bussy, and Catherine de Saint-Belin.

Ibrahim Khan Gardi

Trained to the French discipline as commandant de la qarde to Bussy, Ibrahim Gardi bore the title, or nickname, of "Khan," a souvenir of his professional origin or title.


Bussy D'Ambois

Brice Stratford directed the second modern production of "Bussy D'Ambois" (as well as performing in the title role) at St Giles in the Fields (Chapman's burial site) in the Autumn of 2013, as part of the Owle Schreame theatre company's "Cannibal Valour Rep Season" of obscure classical theatre.

Bussy features translated passages from the plays Agamemnon and Hercules Oetaeus of Seneca, plus the Moralia of Plutarch, the Aeneid and Georgics of Virgil, and the Adagia of Erasmus.

David Victor Belly de Bussy

General David Victor Belly de Bussy (19 March 1768 in Beaurieux – 2 January 1848 in Beaurieux) was a French officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

De Bussy

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618–1693), a French memoiristl commonly known as Bussy-Rabutin

Dorothy Bussy

Bussy anonymously published one novel, Olivia, in 1949, printed by the Hogarth Press, the publishing house founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, in which lesbian loves get entangled in the emotional and sexually charged atmosphere of erotic pedagogy in a girls' school.

Marquis de Bussy-Castelnau

In 1753, a Paravana of Asif ad-Dawlah Mir Ali Salabat Jang, Subedar of Deccan conceded to Marquis de Bussy the paraganas of Chicacole, Ellore, Rajahmundry etc. with an annual revenue RS.2, 00,000 for the maintenance of the French troops in the Subah in recognition of the help of these Circars amounted up to 10 lakhs of Rupees per year.

The Yanam region was presented to the Marquis de Bussy, the French General by Vizianagaram King Pusapati Peda Vijaya Rama Raju (1670–1756) as a token of gratitude for the help rendered by him in the fight against the rulers of Bobbili.

The war was fought between the Rajah of Vizianagaram, Vijayaramaraju aided by the Bussy, the then French General and the Rajah of Bobbili.

Salabat Jung

De Bussy, moved the matter with Salabat Jung, but Syed Lashkar Khan, saw, that the consideration of the matter was postponed for the time being and before Bussy could further move in the matter, he had to go to Machilipatnam on account of his illness.


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