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Le château en bref
Limoëlou Manor (‘bald mound’ in Breton), in the Rothéneuf district of Saint-Malo, was originally a 16th-century farm that Jacques Cartier bought in 1541 and converted around 1545 into a summer residence. He added a storey and a tower to the façade, using ship timber as the building material, and this conversion influenced the later malouinières. The explorer, who had discovered Canada in 1534, lived there with his wife, Catherine des Granches, until his death in 1557. The property later reverted to a farm in the 17th century. Bought back and restored by the Fondation Macdonald Stewart, it was opened as the Jacques Cartier Museum in 1984, displaying period furniture, navigation instruments and ship models. It has been listed as a Monument historique since 21 February 1940 and holds the ‘Maisons des Illustres’ label.