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Le château en bref
Facing the roadstead of Lorient, the Villa Kerozen in Larmor-Plage is often called the Château du Cercle Naval. It was built in 1849 for Augustin Gillet, a sardine-canning industrialist, and in 1858 passed to his partner Auguste Ouizille. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Gallice family enlarged it: a lodge was added in 1903 and two wings in 1910. The villa adopts a neoclassical vocabulary, with a symmetrical façade in which a two-storey central block is flanked by lower wings topped with flat roofs; moulded string courses, brick balustrades and corbelled balconies punctuate the elevations. Requisitioned by the German army at the end of 1940 to house officers, it was sold by Rosy Gallice to the French Navy on 25 October 1956 and became an annex of the Cercle naval. Renovated in 2006, it forms, together with the neighbouring villas, an ensemble nicknamed the "château des sardines".