Buffon, 11 allée du Moulin Rouge

The villa then named "Marinette" already exists on a plan dated January 16, 1865. It appears under the name Buffon on the general plan of the Domaine d'Arcachon drawn up in 1865, by the chief engineer Paul Régnauld, for the Compagnie des Chemins from Fer Midi. The Pereire brothers' real estate company is the owner. It is a family house with 10 master bedrooms, with very comfortable apartments near the Casino Mauresque. Then it was sold in particular, in 1884, to Mr. Hennon, owner of the neighboring villa Giroflée.

From 1894 to 1903, the Buffon villa became the “Notre-Dame de Bonne Espérance” villa. run by the nuns of Tondu, attached to the Poor Clares of Bordeaux. This pension was then frequented by ecclesiastics, single ladies, young girls and children. It is located in the center of the Winter Town, sheltered from the wind and the cold, in full sun, has very comfortable rooms with lounge, piano, garden. In 1903 it took the name Buffon, in 1925 the pension was still run by the Sisters of Hope who treated the sick of the wealthy class. In 1960 the villa was still occupied by nuns who had a chapel built.

The rectangular villa is made up of a ground floor, 1 square floor, 1 attic floor. Its original general volume from the beginning of the 20th century has been preserved, but the wooden fence, the railings of the cut-out wooden balcony, the lambrequins decorating the roof, and the wooden veranda no longer exist.
This villa received many people from the ecclesiastical world, Catholic people including Émile Hirsch (French glass painter, student of Delacroix and Ingres), Countess Diane de Beausacq (French woman of letters known as Countess Diane), Monsieur Harrison-Broadley (British Conservative politician who served in the House of Commons), Rear-Admiral Aubert (Chief of the Naval General Staff), Viscount de Saint Mauris, the Adolphe Sax family (instrument maker of Belgian music, known for having invented the saxophone), the Privat-Deschanel family (magistrate, financial administrator), Monseigneur Coeuret-Varin (bishop of Agen), Vice-Admiral Conrad (consul of France in Pamplona and also painter ), the Marquis de Valmar (Spanish writer, diplomat and politician), the Marquise du Bec Crespin de Tréogat.