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To SOUR^CJRQN, v. n. [bourgconner, Ft*.] To fprout ; 
to (boot into benches ; to put forth buds.—Long may the 
■dew of heaven difiil upon them, to make them bourgeon 
aiid propagate among themfelves. Howcl, 
O that I had the fruitful heads of Hydra, 
That one might bourgeon where another tell! Dry den. 
BOUR'GES, a city of France, and capital of the de¬ 
partment'of the Cher, lituated at the conflux of the Auron 
and Eure. Before the revolution, the fee of an archbi- 
fhop, with an univerfity, founded Or re-eftablifiied by 
Louis XL who was born here, and endowed the town 
with fome confiderable privileges. The cathedral church 
is confidered as a beautiful fpecimen of Gothic architec¬ 
ture. The principal manufactures are cloth, woollen 
fluffs, and (lockings, great quantities of which are difpofed 
of at their annual fairs ; betides which the commerce is 
fmall. It contains fixteen pariflr churches, and about 
•20,000 inhabitants v eight polls and a half weft of Nevers, 
and thirty-one and a quarter fouth of Paris. Lat. 47.5. N. 
Ion. 20. 1. E. Ferro. 
BOURGET', a town of Savoy, at the extremity of a 
lake, to which it gives name : fix miles north of Chambery. 
BOURGET', a lake of Savoy, ten miles long, and from 
t\Vd to three wide : fix miles- north Of Chambery. 
BOURGET' (Le), a town of France, in the depart* 
ftient of Paris: two leagues north of Paris. 
BOURGET' (Dom. John), an ingenious French anti¬ 
quary, born at the village of Beaumains, in the diocefe of 
Seez, in 1724. He was educated at the univerfity of Caen, 
and purfued his (Judies With great diligence till 1745, when 
he became a Benedidtine monk of the abbey of St. Martin 
de Seez. Some time after this, lie was appointed prior 
clauftral of the faid abbey, and afterwards prior of Tiron 
ten Perche; whence being tranflated to the abbey of St. 
Stephen at Caen, he managed the temporalities, of that 
religious houfe during two years, as he did their fpirituali- 
ties for one year longer; after which, according to the 
cuftom of the houfe, he refigned his office. His fuperiors, 
fenfible of his merit, removed him thence to the abbey of 
Bee, where he redded till 1764. He was defied an ho¬ 
norary member of the fociety of antiquaries of London* 
Jan. 10, 1765 ; in which year he returned to the abbey of 
St. Stephen at Caen* wheref he continued to the time of his 
death. Thefe honourable offices enabled him not only to 
purfue his faVourite ftudy of the hiftory and antiquities of 
fome of the principal Benedidtine abbeys in Normandy, 
but likewife gave him accefs to all their charters, deeds, 
regifter-books, &c. Thefe he examined with great care, 
and left behind him in manufeript large and accurate ac¬ 
counts of the abbeys of St. Peter de Jumieges, St. Stephen, 
and the Holy Trinity at Caen, founded by William the 
Conqueror and his queen Matilda; and a very particular 
hiftory of the abbey of Bee. Thefe were all written in 
French. The Hiftory of the Royal Abbey of Bee, which 
lie prefented to Dr. Ducarel in 1764, is only an abftradt 
df his larger work. This ancient abbey (which hath pro¬ 
duced feveral archbiffiops of Canterbury, and other illuf- 
trious prelates of this kingdom) is frequently mentioned 
by our old hiflorians. The death of this worthy prelate 
happened On new-year’s day, 1776 ; and was occafioned by 
his nbgledl of a hurt which he got in his leg by a fall. 
BOURGNEUF' de la FORE'ST (Le), a town of 
France, in the department of the Mayenne, and chief place 
of a canton, in the di drift of Ernee : three leagues north- 
aVefl of Laval. 
BOURGO'GNE. See Burgundy. 
BOURGOIN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Ifere, and chief place of a canton, in the diftricl 
of la Tour du Pin: two leagues weft of la Tour du Pin. 
BOURGON', a town of France, in the department of 
fire Mayenne : five leagues north-weft of Laval. 
BOURGO'NE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Marne, and chief place of a cahton, in the diftrift of 
Reims : fix miles north of Reims, 
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BOfJRGTHEROU'DE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of tlie Eure, and chief place of a canton, in 
the diftrifl of Pont Audemer : five leagues, eaft of Pont 
Audemer. 
BOURGUEIL', a town of France, and feat of a tri¬ 
bunal, in the department of the Indre and Loire : feven 
leagues and a half weft of Tours, and three and a half weft 
of Langeais. Lat. 47. 17. N. Ion. 17. 50. E. Ferro. 
BOURGUET' (Louis), born at Nimes in 1678. The 
revocation of the edicl of Nantes forced his family to feelc 
an afylum in Switzerland. Zurich is indebted to them for 
its manufadtures of (lockings, mud ins, and fe veral (ilk. 
(luffs. Young Bomguet went through a evourfe of ftudy 
there ; he married at Berne, and fettled at Neufcliditel, 
where he became profetfor of piiilofophy and mathema¬ 
tics. He died Dec. jt, 1742, at the age of fixty-four, af¬ 
ter publifhing, 1. A Letter on the Formation of Salts and 
Cryftals; Amfterdam, 1729, 12010. 2. La Bibliotheque 
Italique, i6vols. 8vo. This journal, begun at Geneva in 
r728, found a welcome reception among the learned, as a 
folid and ufeful book. 
BOURGUIGNO'NS, one of the northern nations who 
over-ran the Roman empire, and fettled in Gaul. They 
were of a great ftature, and very warlike : for which rea- 
fon the emperor Valentinian the Great engaged them ia 
his fervice againft the Germans. They lived in tents- 
which were dole to each other, that they might readily 
unite in arms on any fudden attack. Thefe eonjundtionS 
of tents, they called burghs ; and they were to them what 
towns are to us. Sidonius Apoliinaris records, that they 
wore long hair, took great pleafure in finging, and were 
fond of praife. He adds, that they ate great quantities; 
and anointed their hair with butter, deeming that undlion 
very ornamental. Their crown was at firft elective, and 
the.authority of their kings expired with their fuccefs s 
they were not only accountable for their own mifcondudl, 
but likewife for the calamities of nature and the caprice of 
fortune : they were depofed if they loft a battle, if they 
fucceeded ill in any enterprife, or if, in (hort, any great 
event had not conefponded with the hopes of their people. 
They were not more favourably treated in cafe of a bad 
harveft or vintage, or if any epidemical diftemper had ra¬ 
vaged the (late. At firft they were governed by many 
kings, and hendin was the title of the royal dignity. But 
in later times they were fubjefted to one fovereign; and 
they grew humane and civilized, when Clrriftianity wais 
propagated in their country. Before that epocha, their 
religion was much the lame with that of the other north¬ 
ern nations. They had many priefts, the chief of whom 
was diftingui(lied by the name of fmijlrus. He was perpe¬ 
tual, and they paid him great refpedt and veneration. 
BOURIGNON' (Antoinette), a famous enthufiaftic 
preacher and pretended propheteis, born at Lifle in 1616. 
At her birth (he was fo deformed, that it was debated fome 
days in the family whether it was not proper to (lifle her 
asamonfter; but her deformity diminifliing, fitevvas fpared, 
and afterwards obtained fuch. a degree of beauty, that (lie 
had her admirers. From her childhood to her old age 
(lie had an extraordinary turn of mind. She fet up for a 
reformer, and publifhed a great number of books filled 
with very fingular notions ; the mod remarkable of which 
are intitled The Light of the World, and The Teltimony 
of Truth. She was an enemy to reafon and common fenfe, 
which (lie maintained ought to give place to the illumina¬ 
tion of divine faith ; and aflerted, that, whenever any one 
was born again by embracing her doflrine, (lie felt the 
pains and throws of a woman in labour. In one of her 
ecftacies, (lie pretended to have feen Adam in the fame 
form in which he appeared before his fall, and the manner 
in which he was capable of procreating other men, (nice 
he himfelf pofleded in himfelf the principles of both fexes. 
She deeded like an hermit, and travelled to France, Hol¬ 
land, England, and Scotland. She had more difciples in 
Scotland than in any other country perhaps of the world. 
Not only .laymen, but fome of their ecclefiaftics, embraced 
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