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Bussy Saint Georges (bysi sɛ̃ ʒɔʁʒ) is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the center of Paris, in the Seine et Marne department in the Île de France region in north central France.

In the East, at the distance from Paris and in the heart of Marne la Vallée, Bussy Saint Georges has a privileged position thanks to a high density motorway network. From Bussy, the direct access to the A4 motorway and the nearby A104 offer easy access to the whole country. The city centre is only away from Disneyland Paris. With easy access to the RER line , close to the TGV railway station of Chessy – Marne la Vallée and two international airports Roissy Charles de Gaulle and Orly, the city has a central position in the transport network. Bussy Saint Georges is located in the perimeter of the new city of Marne la Vallée as defined by the national government in 1966. But Marne la Vallée is just a geographical entity, precisely divided in 4 sectors. The city is in sector 3 of Marne la Vallée, also called Val de Bussy. In Val de Bussy of Marne la Vallée, Bussy Saint Georges is from 1985 the leading and main support of the built up area, as a real and independent new town with a unique status of local and new town. The others towns decided to be organized around a common agglomeration system of new towns.

The city has benefited from one of the largest growth rates in France. The population has multiplied by 56 in 30 years, between 1982 and 2012. Bussy Saint Georges has a strong power of attraction on young families. 50% of the Buxangeorgiens are less than 30 years old.

Bussy Saint Georges is in the Canton of Torcy, in the administrative département of Seine et Marne; its prefecture is Melun. The canton brings together six towns and 38,236 inhabitants. Before its creation in 1975, the city of Bussy was in the Canton of Lagny sur Marne, finally divided in smaller new subdivisions considering the growth of population. The canton of Torcy is now part of the arrondissement of Torcy created in 1993. The subprefecture was opened on 1 January 2006. This arrondissement is the least geographically extended but the most populated of the department, with 10 cantons, 43 towns representing 343,583 inhabitants. The town hall, built in 1850, stands in the old village, on the Place de la Mairie (Town hall square).

The tower, the only vestige of the lord’s castle of de Buci, a fortress offering a strategic refuge dominating the valleys de la Brosse and de la Gondoire, dated from 12th century. The current place de Verdun is on the previous location of the castle, which was surrounded by the ditches filled with water by the same source of a fountain which still exists in the place du marché. The graveyard, in the north of the tower, beyond the fortifications, was discovered during a private house building in 1960. The tower is 21 meters high and 9 meters large. The Farm of Roquemont. It takes its name from la Rosque’s fief, Bussy Saint Georges lords from 1490 to 1594; it was also the main source of the lords for the benefit of Bussy fief. Later, the farm was called the great farm of Bussy Saint Georges. The Russon mill, a water mill is located in the street of de la Brosse. The former owner has restored it. The mill was a component of the outbuildings of the Farm of Roquemont. It was used as a mill only for a few months and was otherwise used as accommodation for the farm hands. The Wash house, built in the mid 19th century. Bussy already used a very old wash house close to spring in Ferrières: the wash house of Cessoy. But it was too far from the center of the village and difficult to reach for the washerwomen who used barrows for the laundry. The city council bargained with the family de Guermantesfor to acquire land attached to another spring, in the upper side of the street du Moulin, for building the second wash house. Currently, the wash house of Cessoy is private, in contrast to the public one in the street du Moulin. The Farm of Génitoy. The name, genesterium in Latin or genestay in Old French, later génitoire or génitoy, originates from the abundant Genista flowers. The farm was also an important fief with a castle. In 1672, Madame de Montespan had a baby in the castle of Génitoy, one of the Louis XIV's son: Louis César de Bourbon, count of Vexin. La Jonchère. At the beginning of the 19th century, this was a great farm. The owner was M. Martin de Longchamps, who also owned Fontenelles. It was a féculerie in 1836, which dominated all the intensive potato production in the region. Unfortunately from 1845 potato blight affected the activity and then completely stopped it. The farmers decided to replace it with sugar beet. The domaine de la Jonchère was used for establishing the installations of the new product. The current village church was constructed on the location of a medieval church. François de la Rosque, parish priest, member of the lord of Bussy’s family, celebrated the consecration of the church in 1580. The construction was finished in 1595 and the baptism of the three bells followed on August 22, 1600: Louise, in reference to the foundation of the St Louis chapel, Isabelle, a first name of the wife of Louis Guibert, and Georges, patron saint of the parish. The church was restored in the 19th century and, at the request of the inhabitants who were disappointed for not hearing the Angélus, the bell tower was raised in 1866 to the current height of 32 meters. The church became public property in 1905. Under the porch of the monument, there is an 18th century gravestone. It covered the body of abbot Duchesne buried in the chancel of the church. Inside, the body and the transept have a refined ogival style. The beams hold a painted vault in the arch. On the right side, there is a Saint Georges sculpture. On the left is a chapel, probably for the translation of relics in 1431, given to the parish of Bussy Saint Georges by the abott Duchesne, restored in 1904 thanks to a group of the Visitation of the Virgin. The baptistery has a renaissance underbody and the washbowl of a ceremony is decorated with four angel’s heads. We can also notice an embedded stone font on the left of the entrance. The modern church of Notre Dame du Val, built in 1997 by the architectural office Gonot Marcenat. Fully made with modern components, the dome is in natural copper. The location is at 33, boulevard Thibaud de Champagne. Rêve de la Mère: a statue erected in 2010 dedicated to the Boat people and refugees from the Vietnam War. Bussy Saint Georges is home to a significant Vietnamese population, and the statue is a symbol for Vietnamese refugees seeing France as a free nation and is a reminder for French born Vietnamese of their ancestral roots and culture.

City Library: The Médiathèque de l’Europe was inaugurated in October 2006. In it can be found CDs, books (novels, comics, documentaries, magazines etc. ), DVDs, music scores
The library also welcomes a large range of activities put in place by the cultural department of the city. Currently, the hours of opening concern the following days: Tuesday from 2pm to 7pm, Wednesday 10am – 12:30am and 2pm to 6pm, Thursday 2pm – 6pm, and Sunday 10am – 12:30am and 2pm – 6pm. Conservatoire: The Jean Sébastien Bach Conservatoire of Bussy Saint Georges opened its doors in 1995. Widened in 2004, the expanse for the reception of people was doubled. In 2006 more than 700 pupils and 45 employees were involved, 28 individual instrumental disciplines (some of these instruments are "rare" such as harpsichord, viola de gamba or traditional Chinese ones: pipa, guzheng) and 10 steel band disciplines.

In the center of the city, there is the Bussy Saint Georges station of the RER line There is also a bus network ("Pep’s").