The Wooden Collection

This antique stamp belonged to a member of the French de Buissy family, a lineage established in Ponthieu (Somme) from at least the late sixteenth century. At the close of the seventeenth century the family acquired the seigneury of Long, where Honoré-Charles de Buissy commissioned the present château around 1733. The design was entrusted to the architect Charles-Étienne Briseux, noted for his mastery of elegant classical country houses. Conceived not as a fortress but as a refined maison de plaisance, the residence embodied the taste and ambition of a provincial noble family intent on affirming its social standing through architecture. Its opulent decoration and costly embellishments, which far exceeded practical requirements, earned it in popular memory the name "Folie de Buissy".