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Origin and history

Hôtel des Ducs de Bretagne is a private hotel located at 15 rue Fardel in Saint-Brieuc, in the Côtes-d'Armor department. This building, characterized by its wood-paned structure, illustrates the traditional civil architecture of the Brittany region. Its classification as historic monuments as early as 1889 shows its early heritage significance, although the available sources do not specify its exact date of construction or its sponsor.

Private hotels like the Dukes of Brittany often played a central role in medieval and modern urban life. In Saint-Brieuc, a city marked by its ducal history and then its commercial development, these houses generally housed wealthy families, officers or merchants. Their presence reflected local economic prosperity, linked to port and craft activities.

The wood-paned architecture, common in Brittany, met both technical constraints and artisanal know-how transmitted since the Middle Ages.

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