Château du
Buisson de May

The Lordship of Buisson de May has been documented since the 15th century. It belonged for almost 300 years to the de Bordeaux family, notables of Vernon. In 1781, Jean de Bordeaux Bargeville commissioned the present château from Jacques Denis Antoine, royal architect and member of the Académie.

Sold during the French Revolution, the estate was preserved by the Caron de Fleurey family, then Henri de Chastenay Lanty. It was acquired in 1807 by Baron Louis Philippe de Saint Albin, illegitimate son of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, who, with Marie Pierette de Tolozan, redesigned the park with the landscape architect Lalos and improved the interior decoration.

Count François Gaspard d'Onsembray inherited the estate in 1830. He lived there until 1870, when he died and the property was sold to Georges Degrand, chief engineer of the Eure department.

In 1892, Parisian banker Henri Berson bought the estate and entrusted its restoration to architect Charles Couvreux in 1895. The Labey family owned the château from 1920 to 1936, when the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne purchased it as a holiday camp.

The château served as a British military hospital in 1939, then was occupied by German forces from 1940. The caretaker, Germaine Dumont, was arrested in 1944 for hiding Resistance fighters from forced labour. Listed as a Historical Monument in 1994, it has been undergoing restoration since 1999.