Château de Lannouan

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Le château en bref

Château de Lannouan, in Landévant, is a private residence whose present appearance results from a remodelling carried out after 1840, and then from a fire in 1944. The estate formed the second seigneury of the parish after Le Val: a Hervé de Lannouan appears on the muster roll (montre) of 1464, and the land is described as exempt from the fouage tax in 1448. By marriage, it passed in the early sixteenth century to the du Garo de Kermeno family. In 1702, Jérôme de Perrien acquired it; the post-mortem inventory of 1705 describes a salon, a kitchen, an upper chamber, four other rooms, stables and granaries. In the mid-eighteenth century, Charles de Perrien married Bonne de Kerboudel de la Courpéan, an heiress. In the nineteenth century, the Perrien family provided several mayors of Landévant. After 1840, the château was remodelled: pavilions were added, a large west wing was built, and an English-style landscape park replaced the courtyard and gardens, along with a farm, outbuildings and a kennel. The fire of 1944 destroyed much of the building and its interior decoration; only two eighteenth-century fireplaces survive, and the orangery, which was destroyed, was partly rebuilt and enlarged at the end of the twentieth century.