Château du Pargo

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Le château en bref

On the edge of the lake of the same name, to the west of Vannes, the Château du Pargo is the former seat of an important seigneury. A first manor house was held by the Teno family from 1426. Around the middle of the seventeenth century, Yves Gibon replaced it with a new château, and the Gibons kept the estate until the Revolution. In 1793, Louis Monneron bought it; around 1860, it belonged to Vincent Boullé, a former diocesan architect, whose descendants, the Taslés, remain its owners. A restoration was carried out in 1894 by the architect Edmond Bassac. The château, U-shaped on the cadastre of 1809, took on an L-shaped plan after its west wing disappeared in 1844; the main residential block had a full storey and an attic under a hipped roof, built of granite, limestone and rendered rubble. In 1962, the estate was divided and the town of Vannes bought part of it. On 23 December 1997, a fire destroyed much of the main block. The estate nonetheless retains outbuildings, an orangery and a chapel with a single nave and a three-sided chevet, covered by a painted wooden ceiling. It is a private property.