Timeline

Key figures

Origin and history

The house at 32 rue des Chanoines in Vannes is a medieval building built on a very deep rocky basement. It consists of three square floors and a lofty floor, with a long-paned roof. The low arched bays, adorned with curly-leaved capitals, are partially hidden under woodwork. The facade on the square could hide stone arcades carved under these same woodwork. The building is a representative example of the valve wood-paned houses, with a wood-brown frame and the crosses of Saint-André.

According to the archives, the site was occupied between 1455 and 1458 by a house belonging to Eon Bugaud, mentioned in the annuitant of the Ducal domain. This house bordered the street in the Asnes north, where an outbuilding kitchen had been built. The present house was rebuilt in the second half of the 15th century on the foundations of an older building, as revealed by the excavations carried out during its restoration between 1987 and 1991. Stone crows and a door in the middle of the wall, partially buried, testify to this previous occupation.

Prior to its restoration, the house had traces of uplifting probably dating from the seventeenth century, when a new staircase replaced a spiral staircase. This expansion could be linked to the installation of the parliament of Brittany in Vannes, generating an increased need for housing. The house was coated with woodwork on the ground floor, once home to a shop. A consolidation in 1958 added two ground pillars to strengthen the structure. The restoration from 1987 to 1991 restored a polychromy of the half-timber, inspired by the natural pigments used in medieval times.

External links