In 1882, Hermann Sabran, a Lyonnais lawyer and the chairman of the board of directors of Hospices Civil de Lyon, and his wife Hélène witnessed the death of their daughter Renée from bone tuberculosis. After they inherited the Brégançon Castle estate in 1880, they wanted to transform their property into a reception center for children hospitalized at the Charité de Lyon hospital, in memory of their only daughter. As the site turned out too difficult to access, the project was finally transferred to the Giens peninsula. Today, the Renée Sabran hospital, still affiliated with Hospices Civil de Lyon, is renowned for the quality of its care in the fields of post-traumatic rehabilitation, cystic fibrosis, and bone surgery.