Château de Pontcallec

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Le château en bref

Near the Forest of Pont-Callec, in the commune of Berné in Morbihan, the Château de Pont-Callec occupies the site of a former fortified stronghold. A manor house is attested there as early as 1332. In 1591, during the Wars of the Catholic League, the troops of the Duke of Mercœur damaged the site. Raised to a marquisate in 1657, the lordship received a new château in the seventeenth century. Its most famous holder, the Marquis de Pont-Calleck, was executed at Nantes in 1720, along with three companions, for his part in the conspiracy that bears his name. Burned during the Revolutionary period, the château was bought back in 1833 by the Count of Brissac; it was rebuilt in granite in 1882, while retaining the seventeenth-century western pavilion with its square turret. The building has a central block flanked by two symmetrical wings and a polygonal stair tower. Since the mid-1950s, the Dominican Sisters of the Holy Spirit have occupied the estate, which also includes the Chapelle Sainte-Anne-des-Bois.