Three months after Zélie died, Louis Martin left Alençon, where he had spent his youth and marriage, and moved to Lisieux in the Calvados Department of Normandy, where Zélie's pharmacist brother, Isidore Guérin lived with his wife and their two daughters, Jeanne and Marie. In her last months Zélie had given up the lace business. After her death, Louis sold it. Louis leased a pretty, spacious country house, "Les Buissonnets", situated in a large garden on the slope of a hill overlooking the town. Looking back, Therese would see the move to "Les Buissonnets" as the beginning of the "second period of my life, the most painful of the three: it extends from the age of four-and-a-half to fourteen, the time when I rediscovered my childhood character, and entered into the serious side of life". In Lisieux, Pauline took on the role of Theres's "Mama". She took this role seriously, and Therese grew especially close to her, and to Céline, the sister closest to her in age.