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Origin and history

The building at 8 rue Saint-Georges in Rennes dates from the 17th century, a period marked by the transformation of this historic artery. Prior to this, St.Georges Street connected the Gallo-Roman enclosure to the Abbey of the same name, founded in the 11th century. After the construction of a new enclosure between 1422 and 1448, the street became a residential axis where many wooden houses, typical of late medieval architecture, were erected.

The arrival of the Parliament of Brittany in 1655, installed in the Palace built by Salomon de Brosse, accelerated the transformation of the street. To house parliamentary advisers and their servants, reporting houses were built or raised. Some families, after the fire of 1720, bought several plots to build private hotels with courtyards and gardens, a movement initiated in the seventeenth century and amplified in the eighteenth.

The current building, whose facades and roofs have been listed as Historic Monuments since 1967, illustrates this development. Its architecture reflects the adaptation of the building to the needs of a growing judicial elite. St. George's Street, once lined with wooden houses, thus became a symbol of parliamentary power and its influence on Rennes urban planning.

The cadastral coordinates (B 875p to 879p) and the precise address (8 rue Saint-Georges) confirm its anchoring in this historic district. Although the GPS location is approximate (note 5/10), the building remains a tangible testimony to the social and architectural changes of Rennes in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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