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The building located 10 Place du Parlement-de-Bretagne in Rennes is one of the buildings built after the great fire of 1720, which devastated much of the city. These buildings, characteristic of the first half of the eighteenth century, were designed to rebuild the city centre in a unified classical style. Their granite facades, adorned with arcades in the middle, usually house a ground floor, a basement and two floors, surmounted by an attic floor at the Mansart. The ionic pilasters separate the spans, giving an architectural harmony to the entire square.

The Palace Square, now called the Place du Parlement-de-Bretagne, was thus redesigned to symbolize Rennes' renaissance. The protected elements of this building (facade, roofs and chimney stumps) were classified as Historic Monument by order of November 6, 1959, highlighting their heritage value. Their style reflects the influence of Parisian models of the time, adapted to local materials such as granite.

The precise coordinates of the building, although located 9 Place du Parlement de Bretagne, indicate a poor location accuracy (note 5/10 according to the Merimée base). This monument illustrates the post-disaster urban planning of the eighteenth century, where classical aesthetics also served to affirm the re-established prestige of the city, then administrative capital of Brittany.

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