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At La Vraie-Croix, between Vannes and Questembert, the Château de Toulhoët, also spelled Toulhouët or Toulgoët, is a 17th-century manor house that was profoundly remodelled at the beginning of the 20th century. A certain Perrot Toulhoët is mentioned in 1427 and 1448. The seigneury then belonged to the Larré family, then to the Talhouët family, who kept it until 1871 before it passed to the Couëssin family. The château was built around 1610 and remodelled in 1667. In 1899, Louis Simonnot bought it, then restored and enlarged it between 1904 and 1909: to the 17th-century main body was then added a large rectangular pavilion in a neo-Gothic and neo-17th-century style, while the stables of the same period take the form of a neo-Breton manor house, in the spirit of the regionalism then fashionable in Brittany. This blend of older architecture and Belle Époque pastiches gives the site its distinctive character. Listed in the Inventaire du patrimoine de Bretagne, the château is not protected as a historic monument. It is privately owned.