The information on Early Remy concerning, Picardy, Lorraine, and Dept of Ardennes in France
Picardy France:
Picardy (French: Picardie) is an historical province of France, in the north of France. The historical capital and largest city is Amiens.
Picardy (French: Picardie) is a historic region in northern France that is now within the departments of Aisne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, and Somme. AMIENS was the region's capital. On Picardy's fertile soils wheat, sugar beets, and fodder crops are grown. Dairy and beef cattle are raised, and intensive vegetable cultivation takes place on the heavily fertilized, drained peat in the valley of the SOMME RIVER.
Occupied by the Franks during the 5th century, Picardy was divided among six feudal counts. It became a French province in 1477 and was the target of numerous invasions from the Netherlands. During World War I it was the scene of protracted trench warfare.
A major battlefield.
According to Edward Gibbon,
Whimsical enough is the origin of the name of Picards, and from thence of Picardie, which does not date earlier than AD 1200. It was an academical joke, an epithet first applied to the quarrelsome humour of those students, in the University of Paris, who came from the frontier of France and Flanders. (Chapter LVIII - Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
During the Middle Ages, Picardy referred to that part of France north of Paris, and it even included the Dutch speaking Flanders. Thus, the name applied to an area much larger than what we now think of as Picardy. This area corresponds to all the territories from Paris to the Netherlands. In the Latin Quarter of Paris, people identified a "Picardy Nation" (Nation Picarde) of students, most of whom actually came from Flanders, who studied in the prestigious Sorbonne University.
In a narrower sense, Picardy refers to the area covered by the gouvernement (military region) of Picardy as created in the 16th century. This area is the Somme département, the northern half of the Aisne département, and a small fringe in the north of the Oise département. This is what most people think of as Picardy today. The older definition survives in the name of the Picard language, which applies not only to the dialects of Picardy proper, but also to the Romance dialects spoken in the Nord-Pas de Calais région, north of Picardy proper.
Picardy proper now lies inside the Picardie région, making up half of this région. Before the French Revolution, the coastal areas of Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais were considered part of Picardy, but are now part of the Nord-Pas de Calais région. However, anciently these areas belonged to the province of Artois, and had been detached from Artois in the 15th century.
Most of Picardy is a vast plain with open fields, famed for the gruesome Battle of the Somme. The main crops of Picardy are wheat, sugar beets, and fodder. Sugar beet was introduced by Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars in order to counter the United Kingdom which had seized the sugar islands possessed by France in the Caribbean. The sugar industry made the fortune of Picardy in the 19th century and contributed to the ruin of the sugar economy in the Caribbean.
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Dept. of Ardennes France:
With the Belgium frontier, the very dense woodlands, river Meuse and the Ardennes is a very intresting area. Northern France.
"The huge forest of Ardenne, intensive farming techniques, Champagne wine. Historically, Reims, roman, celt influence. The French revolution , WWI, war graves.
Reims, Capital of the Champagne, with a rich and long history. With the baptisme of the French king Clovis in 496A.D. Seiged many times, and center of the Germany offensives during the Great War. The geramns also signed their capitualation , the 7 May 1945.
The city of Reims is the capital of the region of Champagne-Ardenne, Champagne-Ardenne, which contains the departments :
Haute Marne
Marne
Aube
Ardennes
Busancy:
A reference to Buscancy was found in the Encyclopedia:
does not bear on the Remy genealogy but it does substantiate that a place existed. (quote from dictionary)
GRASSIN (Pierre), viscount of Busancy, to recommend to the Parliament of Paris, founded in 1569 in Paris the secondary school said about Grassins, in favour of the poor schoolchildren of the city of Sense; this secondary school was located street des Amandiers, on the mountain Ste-Geneviève. Since 1789, it became a particular ownership..
Wikipedia dictionary project.
another reference to Busancy:
In the same year when the savans first of France condemned mesmerism in Paris, a young officer, Mr Chastenet de Puységur, made a discovery which absolutely had to transform the doctrine of the German doctor, and begin a very new epoch for animal magnetism. This discovery was that of artificial somnambulism, or clear sleep. It was a young peasant of his earth of Busancy, near Soissons, named Victor, which gave him the first example of this peculiar state.
The discovery of magnetic somnambulism goes back up to the marquis of Puységur, raises live broadcasting of Mesmer. Puységur discovered this state incidentally. It was on May 4th, 1784. Puységur, withdrawn in the earth of Busancy " (Aisne), treated on the sick. He was called at a called peasant's Victor, attained by a swelling of chest and been confined to bed for 4 days. Puységur has made passes for some minutes in front of his sick man when this one closed eyes and continued answering the questions of his magnetic healer.
so even though busancy doesnt seem to be on the maps today it was a place in France. Here it states Busancy (Aisne)
Aisne:
Aisne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Île-de-France, Picardie, and Champagne.
Most of the old-growth forests in the area were destroyed during battles in World War I. The French offensive against the Chemin des Dames in spring 1917 is sometimes referred to as the Second Battle of the Aisne.
Geography
Aisne borders the Ardennes Forest and Belgium to the northeast. The Aisne River crosses the area from east to west, where it joins the Oise River. The landscape is dominated by masses of rock which often have steep flanks. These rocks appear all over the region, but the most impressive examples are at Laon and the Chemin des Dames ridge.
Northern France:
The Location of the Region of Lorraine
The History of Lorraine
The Leuci and Mediomatrici tribes settled in Lorraine long before it came under Roman rule in the 1st century B.C. For the next several centuries Lorraine was a part of the Belgium Province of the Roman Empire. Lorraine, like Alsace, has passed between French and German rule numerous times over the centuries.
Following the demise of the Roman Empire, Alsace and Lorraine both fell under the rule of Merovingien King Clovis, who held these regions until his death in 511. Upon his death, his son Theodoric (Thierry) became King of Austrasia, increasing his territory from the left bank of the Rhine River to the North Sea (engulfing Lorraine) with Metz becoming its main city.
Charlemagne died in 814. The Treaty of Verdun, in 843, divided his empire among his three grandsons; Charles the Bald was given the western part (France), Lothar received the Midlands (the North Sea to Rome) and Louis obtained the eastern part (Germany). Territorial unity was finally restored, in what used to be Charlemagne’s Holy Roman Empire, through this troika rule.
Notwithstanding the Treaty of Verdun, a series of wars ravaged the area and decimated the population. Lorraine went from French rule to German rule a number of times. In the early 18th century Lorraine became a French Province. In 1790, Lorraine was divided into the four départements that exist today: Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle and Vosges.
In 1871, France lost the departement of Moselle, and the region of Alsace, to the Prussians. The area remained under German control until 1918, the end of WWI, at which time it was returned to France. Once again, In 1940, Lorraine was conquered by the Germans. It was returned to France, after the war, in 1945.
Picardy, Dept of Ardennes, and Lorraine are all in Northern France