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 Château de Cheffontaines à Clohars-Fouesnant dans le Finistère

Patrimoine classé
Malouinière
Demeure seigneuriale
Château de style Louis XV
Finistère

Château de Cheffontaines

    172 Cosquer
    29950 Clohars-Fouesnant
Château de Cheffontaines
Château de Cheffontaines
Château de Cheffontaines
Crédit photo : Moreau.henri - Sous licence Creative Commons

Timeline

Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
1594
Dismantling of Kergoat
1766
Erection in marquisat
1790-1800
Revolutionary seizure
1834
Manufacture of Prussia blue
1928
First protection
1958-1959
Final classifications
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

Castle, except classified parts (Box B4,497): inscription by order of 25 February 1928; Facades and roofs; entrance hall; large staircase; small living room; large living room; dining room (Box B4 497): by order of 26 March 1958

Key figures

Jonathas Ier Marie Hyacinthe de Penfentenyo - Marquis de Cheffontaines Owner emigrated, abandoned his pack.
Paul Célarier Damiguet de Vernon - Revolutionary buyer First owner after seizure.
Aimé-Désiré Calloch de Kérillis - Mayor of Clohars-Fouesnant Owner and former royal Musketeer.
Étienne Le Bourhis - Industrial We'll set up a blue factory.
Hyacinthe Quemper de Lanascol - Noble owner Husband of a Bedford Russell.

Origin and history

The castle of Cheffontaines, located in Clohars-Fouesnant in Finistère, is built in the eighteenth century by the Marquis de Cheffontaines, family of Penfentenyo. Its architecture takes on the model of the malouinières, enriched with two large side pavilions (chapel and library). The estate includes a park designed at the end of the 18th century, with a pond, now listed with remarkable gardens. The castle is partially unfinished at the Revolution, the stables and pavilions planned near the moats never being realized.

Seized as a national property during the Revolution, the castle was sold to several successive owners, including Paul Célair Damiguet de Vernon (original purchaser) and Aimé-Désiré Calloch de Kérillis, mayor of Clohars-Fouesnant from 1821 to 1823. In 1834 Étienne Le Bourhis installed a blue factory in Prussia. Penfentenyo's family purchased the estate in 1860. During the Second World War, the castle escaped German requisitions thanks to the Swiss nationality of the Marquise, but its beech alley was shot down to develop an airstrip (never used).

The castle was listed as a historic monument in 1928 and was partially classified in 1958, while its park was protected in 1959. A local legend evokes the pack of dogs of Marquis Jonathas I of Penfentenyo, abandoned to hunger during his emigration, inspiring the saying "Hurler like the dogs of Cheffontaines". The estate preserves traces of its feudal history: the central house body comes from the old castle of Kergoat, dismantled in 1594, while the materials of Bodigneau (another fortress of the Penfentenyo) were used for its construction in the 18th century.

The current architecture combines classical elegance and defensive heritage, with moats and a landscaped park. The park's rare, 1.7 km driveway species, replanted in the 1950s, recall its past prestige. Today, a private property, the castle illustrates the evolution of a Breton seigneury in Marquisat, marked by revolutionary upheavals and economic adaptations (Prussia blue industry).

External links

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