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Le château en bref
The Château de la Guérande, in Hénanbihen (Côtes-d'Armor), passed into the hands of Jean and then Pierre de la Guérande (1428-1536), before Jacques de Lescouët, lord of la Moguelaye, inherited it in 1536; the estate then remained in the Chateaubriand family until 1918. The château is mentioned by François-René de Chateaubriand in his Mémoires d'outre-tombe (Memoirs from Beyond the Grave), although it was not as ruined as the writer describes it. The de Coattarel family owned it from 1918 to 2021, the year in which the estate was acquired by the Fontaine – Berthe de Pommery family. Since summer 2021, restoration work has been under way on the west wing — whose roof had collapsed — focusing in particular on the 18th-century roof structure and roof covering, with the support of the Fondation du Patrimoine and the Vieilles Maisons Françaises.