page_title: Bruay-la-Buissière
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bruay-la-Buissière / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Fosse n° 3 de la Compagnie des mines de Bruay, ouverte en 1866 et fin de l' exploitation en Décembre 1966.
context_page_description: Bruay-la-Buissière is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region in northern France.
context_section_description: With four coal mines, it was the headquarters of the Bruay Mining Company. The coal mines closed during the 1960s, to be replaced by light industrial work and chemical factories. In April 1972 the murder of miner's daughter Brigitte Dewevre became a politicized event when Pierre Leroy, a local middle-class lawyer associated with the local mining company, was arrested: La Cause du Peuple, the paper of the Maoist Gauche prolétarienne, publicized the case with the headline 'Bruay: And Now They Are Massacring Our Children!'
  The two places of Bruay-en-Artois and La Buissiere were joined as one commune in 1987.
caption: A pit head of the Compagnie des mines de Bruay
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