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The Château de Corn-er-Houët stands in Colpo, in the Morbihan. It was built between 1858 and 1866 on the initiative of Princess Élisa Napoléone Baciocchi, niece of Napoleon I, at the heart of an estate of 525 hectares, which she devoted in particular to a modern agricultural enterprise. In the Neoclassical style, the building has an ordered elevation with a basement and a full first floor. It combines granite, brick and rubble masonry rendered with plaster under slate roofs, and contains a dog-leg staircase with returns, lit by a light well. The sculpted decoration bears the arms of the princess and eagles. The north wing was added at the end of the 19th century by the de Courcy family; the balustrade and the belvedere of the roof terrace have since disappeared. The château was later used as a convalescent home for children, then as a rest home, and it is listed in the Inventaire général as state property.