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In Péaule, in eastern Morbihan, the Château de Fescal is an 18th-century residence built around 1760 on a seigneurial estate much older than the building. The Fescal family held it from the 15th century onwards: an Eon de Fesqual is mentioned in 1427, and a Pierre de Fescal in 1481.
The seigneury then passed to the Coëtdro, Bézy, Bégasson and Saint-Martin families, and, in the 18th century, to the Champion de Cicé family, which gave several prelates to the Ancien Régime. In the 19th century, it belonged to the Bellefontaine family and then to the du Plessis de Grénédan family.
The 20th century gave the estate an unexpected new purpose. On 12 September 1938, the Abbé Victor-Alain Berto acquired the château thanks to a gift from the diocese, in order to establish there his Foyer Notre-Dame de Joie. From 1939 to 1955, Fescal housed an orphanage which also took in children refugees during the Second World War. The château is today a private property and is not open to visitors.