Kerrousseau Castle

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Le château en bref

The château de Kerrousseau, sometimes spelled Kerruisseau, stood in Quéven, in the Morbihan, on a spur overlooking the valley. The fief of ‘Kerousseaux’ is attested as early as 1464; it was held of the principality of Rohan-Guémené and was successively held by the Lopriac family, then in the 17th century by the Guimarho and du Perenno families. In 1710, the estate comprised a manor house, a chapel dedicated to Saint Maudé, a dovecote, two noble farms (métairies nobles), some twenty farms and a mill, attested as early as 1670 on the Kerrousseau stream. At the end of the 18th century, the Kerpaën family, allied with the Marnière de Guer family, replaced the manor house with a pleasure château inspired by the Hôtel Gabriel de Lorient (1732): nine bays, wide windows opening onto the park, and a central projecting section with lateral ones. On the eve of the Second World War, the estate belonged to the Le Brize family; it then housed the White Fathers, who had withdrawn from Kerlois, before being requisitioned by German officers, who set it on fire in August 1944 as they retreated. The ruins of the cellars, the boundary wall, the gates, a large circular well and the 19th-century fountain-washhouse survive; a golf course occupies part of the former estate.