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Origin and history

The house at 14 Place Saint-Corentin in Quimper is a historic building dating from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is distinguished by its hybrid architecture, combining a ground floor in rubble and a wooden floor, typical of the Breton urban buildings of this time. The presence of a turret at the southwest corner of the square makes it a remarkable part of the local heritage, reflecting the importance of this area in the medieval and modern city.

This former prebendal house, i.e. linked to an ecclesiastical benefit, is part of the urban fabric of Quimper, an episcopal city since the Middle Ages. Its partial inscription in Historic Monuments in 1951 and 1969 (for facades and roofs) underscores its heritage value. The turret, a defensive or symbolic architectural element, reflects the constructive practices of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, where bourgeois or religious houses adopted distinctive features to mark their status.

The area around Place Saint-Corentin, the historic heart of Quimper, concentrated on commercial, religious and administrative activities. Woodhouses, such as this one, often housed clerics, merchants or notables. Their preservation makes it possible today to understand the social and urban organization of the Ancien Régime Brittany, between ecclesiastical influence and commercial dynamism.

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