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Buis Castle, formerly called Buy or Boxum, is a 4th quarter-century building located in Chissey-en-Morvan (Saône-et-Loire). It replaces a former seigneurial house demolished in 1781, whose origins date back to the Middle Ages. The site, crossed by a Roman way, would have sheltered Merovingian ruins, evoking for some scholars of the nineteenth century a possible residence of Queen Brunehaut. These remains, mixed with layers of coal, could date from the buckwheat invasions of 731.

Under the Old Regime, the seigneury of Buis was a land in all righteousness, dependent on the castle of Liernais. His fief, including the hamlets of Buy, La Prée, Ruisselles and Chaumien, was in Saulieu by way of territory in 1732. Buy's family owned it from the 13th century, before the estate passed through successive alliances with the Clugny, Posanges, and then the La Coste. In 1772 Claude Levite de Flacellière, prosecutor of the Autun maréchain, acquired the fief for 92,000 pounds and built the present castle.

The castle, inscribed in historical monuments since 1992, retains remarkable elements such as its staircase, entrance gates and dovecote. The boundaries of the property, marked with the letters B and C, date from 1772. In the 19th century, the estate still belonged to the Flacellière family, including Ferdinand-Valentin, a moulter for the district of Autun in the 1850s. Local excavations and archives, including the works of Jacques-François Baudiau (1866), attest to its historical importance in the Burgundian Morvan.

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