Boissieu
# Boissieu

Boissieu (or Boissieux) is a French proper name originating in middle and eastern France (Auvergne, Lyon, Alpes), probably meaning "woody place" ("bois" means wood in French).

## Families

Several French noble families bear the name Boissieu, including:

* The family de Boissieu or Boissieu du Forez, originally from Forez, near Lyon, in the 16th century
* The family Boissieu d'Auvergne or Boissieu de la Geneste, originating from La Chapelle-Geneste (Haute-Loire) in 1316
* The family Perrin de Boissieu or Boissieu-Perrin, later called Salvaing de Boissieu, originally from the Dauphiné. A line of this family later settled in Aunis (18th century) and Normandy (19th century).

## People

* Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (1736-1810), the French artist and engraver
* Henri Louis Augustin de Boissieu (1741-1795), French general
* Joseph Hugues Boissieu La Martinière (1758-1788), French doctor of medicine, botanist and biologist
* Claude Victor de Boissieu (1783-1868), the French artist and local politician
* Henri de Boissieu (1871-1912), French botanist, see Astilbe
* Alain de Boissieu (1914-2006), general son-in-law of the general Charles de Gaulle
* Pierre de Boissieu (born 1945), French diplomat and former French ambassador to the European Union
* Christian de Boissieu (born 1947), professor of economics at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne university
