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The house at 21 Rue du Général-de-Gaulle in Malestroit is a 16th-century civil building typical of Renaissance Breton architecture. Its granite facade, adorned with a front door on the ground floor, is surmounted by a semicircular niche. Upstairs, two rectangular windows framed with columnettes or toers, as well as two triangular pediment windows, animate the whole. Several sculpted, naive designs add an artisanal character to this construction.

Classified as a Historic Monument, this house saw its street façade and roof protected by decree of 30 June 1933. The cadastre identifies the property under the reference AZ 48. Although its original use is not specified in the sources, its architectural style suggests a bourgeois or artisanal residential function, common in the Breton cities of that time.

The location of this monument, in the old Grande-Rue (now Rue du Général-de-Gaulle), indicates its integration into the historical urban fabric of Malestroit, a city marked by its medieval past and its commercial role in inland Brittany. The decorative elements, though modest, reflect the influence of local workshops and regional constructive traditions of the 16th century.

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