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AUBUSSON , a See also:

town of See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Creuse, picturesquely situated on the See also:river Creuse 24 M. S.E. of See also:Gueret by See also:rail. Pop. (1906) 6495. It has celebrated manufactories of carpets, &c., employing about 2000 workmen, the See also:artistic See also:standard of which is maintained by a See also:national school of decorative arts, founded in 1869. Nothing certain is known as to the See also:foundation of this See also:industry, but it was in full activity at least as far back as 1531. From the loth to the 13th See also:century Aubusson was the centre of a viscounty, and the viscountess See also:Marguerite, wife of Rainaud VI., was sung by many a See also:troubadour. After the See also:death of the See also:viscount See also:Guy II. (a little later than 1262) Aubusson was incorporated in the countship of La See also:Marche by See also:Hugh XII. of See also:Lusignan, and shared in its fortunes. See also:Louis XIV. revived the See also:title of viscount of Aubusson in favour of See also:Francois, first See also:marshall de la Feuillade (i686). From the See also:family of the old viscounts was descended See also:Pierre d'Aubusson (q.v.). See also:Admiral Sallandrouze de Lamornaix (184o—19o2) belonged to a family of See also:tapestry manufacturers established at Aubusson since the beginning of the 19th century.

Aubusson was also the native See also:

place of the novelists Leonard Sylvain, See also:Julien See also:Sandeau and See also:Alfred Assollant (1827—1886). See Le Pere See also:Anselme, Hist. genealogique de la maison de France, vol. v. pp. 318 et seq.; P. Mignaton, Hist. de la maison d'Aubusson (See also:Paris, 1886) ; Cyprien Perathon, Hist. d'Aubusson (See also:Limoges, 1886). (A.

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