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Le château en bref
The Demeure Sainte-Anne, also known as the Château de l'île Berder, stands on a small island in Larmor-Baden, in the Gulf of Morbihan, and can be reached at low tide by a submersible causeway. A farm is recorded on the site in 1750. In 1879 Count Arthur Dillon bought the island and, around 1880, had built there a historicist ensemble: a granite-rubble L-shaped residence of two storeys, with a projecting bay and a conical turret, a chapel above a crypt, a quay (1885), a riding school (1886), a belvedere tower built between 1889 and 1900, a crenellated hexagonal tower, a greenhouse, stables and oyster-farming facilities. The Dillon-Stucklé coat of arms adorns the chapel and the riding school. Around 1920 the estate passed to the Duchess of Uzès, then in 1927 to the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and in 1937 to the Little Sisters of Saint Francis. It operated as a holiday centre from 1984 to 2013, and a project to convert it into a hotel has since been proposed; the island's footpath remains open to walkers.