Gate of the main enclosure of Bouguen

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Le château en bref

The gate of the main enclosure of Bouguen, also known as the Penfeld Gate, facing the town of Brest, is a bastioned fortified work built between 1778 and 1782 according to the inventory record, which attributes it to the military engineer Pierre-Jean de Caux de Blacquetot. It is commonly known as the Castelnau Gate since 1830, in memory of Jacques de Castelnau-Mauvissière and his son. Built in granite (dressed stone, medium ashlar and rubble), it was moved to a square overlooking the Penfeld and the arsenal; the inventory records it as partly destroyed, in a state of ruins and restored. It belongs to the commune.