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Le château en bref
In the Ménimur district, north of Vannes, the Manoir du Ménimur was a residence arising from the break-up of the seigneury of Kermesquel. In 1587, Jacques de la Touche sold the estate to Vincent Cillart, a merchant of Vannes, illustrating the rise of the urban bourgeoisie into noble property ownership. The manor comprised a main residence and outbuildings around a U-shaped courtyard; two outbuildings dated 1632 flanked this courtyard. After the marriage of Jeanne-Thérèse du Fresne to Jean-Baptiste de Lescoët in 1699, the residence was extended to the west and remodelled in the eighteenth century. The main building, of rubble stone with rendered finish, granite surrounds and limestone dormer windows, consisted of a central body and two wings; the drawing room and the dining room retained painted eighteenth-century panelling depicting hunting scenes and floral motifs. In 1832, it passed to the du Portal family. The Ursulines bought it in 1922 and installed a teaching establishment there, which was enlarged to plans by Joseph and then Guy Caubert de Cléry. After being studied by the Inventaire, the manor was demolished in 2015.
