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At the lieu-dit Le Rest, in Langoëlan in the Pays de Guéméné in the north-west of the Morbihan, the Manoir du Rest is a modest residence with a past marked by the Chouannerie. The estate does not appear among the noble lands listed in 1666. At the beginning of the eighteenth century it belonged to Louis de Brossard, notary of the seigneurie of Coët-Codu, and it is described as a manoir in 1738 in the aveu rendered by his widow, Renée Guilloux. By marriage it then passed to the du Chelas family. Pierre du Chelas, a companion of Georges Cadoudal during the Chouannerie, lived there; he became mayor of Langoëlan from 1810 to 1826, and tradition has it that he carved a Chouan heart into a beam. The logis, built in the second half of the seventeenth or the first half of the eighteenth century, rises one storey over a square plan and has two heated rooms on the ground floor. A wooden staircase with flat balusters is housed in a lean-to at the rear. It is flanked by two single-storey dwellings, arranged around a courtyard closed on three sides, at the centre of which stands a circular granite well dating from the eighteenth century. It is a private property.