Le Courrier indépendant: "Côtes-d'Armor: did Breton nobility live in your house?"

Flavie Dupont will be leading this inventory survey in Côtes-d'Armor until May 2025. Region Bretagne

In November 2024, the Brittany Region is launching a new heritage inventory.

Until May 15, 2025, the Region is conducting this " inventory survey " of the castles inhabited during the Ancien Régime by members of the Parliament of Brittany, in the Côtes d'Armor region.

" This seven-month project is part of a wider study being carried out on a regional scale in partnership with the Vieilles Maisons Françaises association and Rennes 2 University ", announces the Region.

The aim? To renew our knowledge of these buildings, which are important markers of the social and economic history of part of the Breton nobility between the 16th and 18th centuries ".

Accompanied by photography, the aim of the operation is to complete the inventory of elements and enrich the studies already carried out. A restitution of this inventory survey will be organized at the end of the work. All the data produced will be accessible via the heritage.bretagne.bzhportal.

The Brittany Region

Flavie Dupont will be carrying out this survey as part of her Master 2 thesis in History, Civilizations and Heritage (History, Social Sciences and Cultural Mediation) at the University of Rennes 2, and her internship with the Region's Heritage Inventory Department.

As with every Inventory operation, and with the owners' agreement, photographers from the department can support the approach of the project manager.

" The region is home to a large number of noble residences, both on the coast and inland .

" Some belonged to great parliamentary families: Robien in Le Foeil, Rosambo in Lanvellec, Caradeuc in Plouasne, and Bogard and La Houssaye in Quessoy.