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Le château en bref
At Saint-Jacut-les-Pins, near Redon, the Château de Bodéan stands on a rise, above the site of a former manor house that was the seat of a seigneury. The present building is a "château neuf" of the Second Empire, erected around 1860.
Its architect is not known with certainty: the name of Aristide Tourneux has been suggested, but analysis of the style points rather to Jacques Mellet of Rennes, who was active on many Breton residences of the period. With a compact, massed plan, the building rises over a basement, a ground floor and an attic. Its ordered elevations adopt the vocabulary of the Neo-Gothic, with straight external staircases, mansard roofs with hipped ends, and polygonal spires; the walls are of rubble masonry, rendered and finished beneath slate. The estate is accompanied by a park, outbuildings and an ornamental pond.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the estate belonged to M. de Coutances, then mayor of the commune. It is today a private property.