Kerazan Manor

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Le château en bref

Kerazan Manor, between Loctudy and Pont-l'Abbé (Finistère), was built at the end of the 16th century by the Kerfloux family. It then passed to the Drouallen family before the counts of Rosmorduc, of the Le Gentil house, carried out major alterations in the 18th century. Confiscated from Count Louis de Rosmorduc, a Chouan leader, by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Quimper in 1793, it subsequently passed to Louis Derrien, then to the architect Édouard Le Normant des Varannes, and in 1847 to Alour Arnoult. The Astor family acquired it through the marriage of Noémie Arnoult to Joseph Astor (1824–1901), mayor of Quimper. Their son, Joseph-Georges Astor, enriched the manor's art collections before bequeathing it to the Institut de France in 1928. A museum since 1932, it also housed an embroidery school from 1932 to 1966, many of whose pupils went on to join the Maison Le Minor.