In the beginning there was a farm: the ferme du Buisson, already recorded in the land registry of 1831. It was on this land that the present château was built in the second quarter of the nineteenth century — red brick with white stone quoins and window surrounds, a tall slate roof pierced with dormers, in the grand tradition of nineteenth-century châteaux, somewhere between classical heritage and the “neo-Louis XIII” taste.

The original main building rises over two storeys beneath its slate roof, its principal façade turned to the south. Its central bay, adorned with an Ionic order, was crowned in the second half of the nineteenth century with a great bell turret, destroyed around 1940. The same period reshaped the house: a corner pavilion was built to the north-west, the west wing added in the early twentieth century was raised by a storey, and the double outdoor staircase was replaced by the terrace we know today.

Around the château, the grounds shelter rare and ancient tree species — a legacy best understood alongside its illustrious neighbour, the Arboretum des Barres, created in 1821 by Philippe-André de Vilmorin just three minutes away, one of the richest tree collections in Europe with 2,600 species.

Le Buisson is one of the eight châteaux recorded at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, a village crossed by the canal de Briare — commissioned in 1604 under Henri IV and Sully, completed in 1642, the first summit-level canal in Europe — and which owes its name to a reliquary attributed to Saint Geneviève, kept in the church, heir to a priory founded in the sixth century. A land of water, forests and remarkable trees, of which the château is today one of the loveliest holiday homes.