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The Correc mansion, located in Saint-Gelven in the Côtes-d'Armor, was built around 1450 by a younger member of the Rohan family. This major fief of Corlay's chestnutry included then estates, ponds, mills, orchards, and even a court of high justice extending over Laniscat, Saint-Gelven and Saint-Igeaux. He reported to the prince of Guémené and may have been a juveigneuria of Rohan's house. At the end of the 15th century, he passed into the hands of a Spanish captain, Diego Suasse, before being handed over by marriage in 1634 to the family of the Cognets.

In 1667, Toussaint des Cognets undertook major work on reshaping, as evidenced by the engraved dates (1662, 1677). Without a direct heir, the manor house was built around 1760 by a captain of Maine-Infantry, a future caulian chief during the Revolution. Sold in 1883 to the Mottin de la Balme family, it was transformed into a farm until 1972. Since 1991, its new owners have actively restored it. Partially listed at the Historic Monuments in 1980, it retains a body of rectangular houses, commons, and a shale wall with granite frames.

The architectural ensemble, marked by a dungeon now gone, reflects the successive transformations between Renaissance and classical times. Protected elements include facades, roofs, corner towers and the entrance porch. Its history thus combines Breton nobility, Spanish heritages, and agricultural reuses, illustrating the evolution of the aristocratic campaigns in Brittany.

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