Château le Petit Pavillon Fouquet

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Le château en bref

Le Petit Pavillon Fouquet stands at Les Roserières, in Le Palais, on Belle-Île-en-Mer (Morbihan). It was built from 1658 for Nicolas Fouquet, Superintendent of Finances, after his acquisition of the island. An inventory of 1683 still distinguishes the ‘Grands pavillons’ from the ‘Petit pavillon’, with bedrooms, stables, courtyards and granaries: only the latter survives. Partially destroyed in 1689 on Vauban's orders, stripped of its timber framing and lead during the British occupation of 1761–1763, it passed to Jean-Louis Trochu in 1814. In the nineteenth century it housed gamekeepers' lodgings and cells, and from 1880 it served as a place of detention for minors. Of the building, constructed in schist and limestone under slate, with a ground floor and basement, only remains survive. Listed in the General Inventory, it has been privately owned since 1952.