Les Buissonnets is the middle-class family home where Thérèse Martin (who became Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus) lived from age four until she entered the Carmelite convent at fifteen. The house has been preserved much as it was in the 1880s and 1890s, with period furniture, family photographs, and the small rooms — including Thérèse's bedroom — where she grew up.
For pilgrims, this is one of the most moving stops on the Lisieux circuit, giving a human scale and domestic intimacy to the saint's early life that the vast basilica cannot. For non-pilgrims with any curiosity about late 19th-century French bourgeois domestic life, it is also a genuinely interesting house museum. The garden is small but well kept; the house itself takes about 45 minutes to visit properly.