the wash-house built in the mid-th century bussy already used a very old wash-house close to a spring in ferrières the wash-house of cessoy but it was too far from the center of the village and difficult to reach for the washerwomen who used barrows for the laundry the city council bargained with the family de guermantesfor to acquire land attached to another spring in the upper side of the street du moulin for building the second wash-house currently the wash-house of cessoy is private in contrast to the public one in the street du moulin