AUBUSSON, a town of France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Creuse, on the river Creuse, 24m. S.E. of Gueret by rail. Pop. (1931) 5,600. It has celebrated manufac tories of carpets, etc., employing over 2,000 workmen, the artistic standard of which is maintained by a national school of decorative arts, founded in 1869. The industry goes back at least as far as 1531. Beauvais tapestries and Gobelins are still made on hand-looms. From the loth to the 13th century Aubusson was the centre of a viscounty. It was then incorporated in the count ship of La Marche and shared in its fortunes. From the family of the old viscounts was descended Pierre d'Aubusson (q.v.).