Bugue

Bugue (in Occitan Al Buga ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Dordogne and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

The commune is established on banks of the Vézère.

History

With the confluence of Douch and Vézère, Bugue was inhabited as of Prehistory. In 964, a Benedictine abbey was founded there under the name of Saint-Marcel-and-Saint-El Salvador (it completely disappeared at the end of the 19th century). Bugue knew one boom until 1154, date on which Périgord became English province: being often frontier town between the English troops and those of king de France, the community suffered from its position. One of the most important dates of the history of Bugue remains that of November 1319 when the king of France, Philippe Length, ordered by sealed act that the market is perpetually held Tuesday, act always in force with the 21e century!

Quiet Cité commercial until the Revolution - in spite of some fratricidal fights between the lords of Limeuil and Fleurac-, Bugue owes part of its fame to the physicist Jean Rey who discovered the laws of gravity 200 years before Lavoisier and invented the thermoscope, ancestor of our modern thermometer. The end of the 19th century was marked by the construction of the bridge and the arrival of the railroad.

Administration

Demography

In 1864: 2969

Statistics

Activity ratio: 82,8%
Unemployment rate: 14,65%

Branches of industry

Farmers: 2%
Craftsman-tradesmen: 17%
Frameworks: 5%
Intermediate occupations: 16%
Employed: 35%
Working: 25%

Family

Student: 4,89%
Single-parent families: 12,08%

Places and monuments

Cave of Cluzeau

Personalities related to the commune

See too

External bonds

Bugue on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bugue on the site of INSEE
Bugue on the site of Quid
Localization of Bugue on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bugue on Mapquest
Magazine of video reports on Bugue and Black Périgord

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