Anciennes forges des Salles (également sur commune de Sainte-Brigitte, dans le Morbihan)

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History

Rebuilt in 1750 and slowly modified, these forges remained in the state they were in when their activity ceased, at the end of the 19th century. The château of the master of the forge managing the works, the workers' dwellings or rows, in schist, covered with slate, and the carpenter's house date from the reconstruction of the 18th century. The other buildings (shed, stores, stables) derive from campaigns of works carried out under the Janzé, new owners, shortly before the opening of the Nantes to Brest canal on the Blavet (1842) and continued until the definitive cessation, in 1879. Old metallurgical site of the domain of the house of Rohan, the indirect technique had been adopted there for the first time in Brittany. From 1621, under the impetus of Henri II, Duke of Rohan, hitherto leader of the Calvinist party, a slitting mill was added entrusted to the Sedenese Geoffroy de Finement, sieur d'Angecourt. Producing pots, galettes moulds, rods and cannon balls in the 18th century, the Salles drew their resources from the neighbouring forests (Quénécan) and fed four ponds (des Salles, du Vieux Fourneau, de la Forge Neuve, du Guéhault), the largest of which covers nearly 30 hectares. The building of the new forge possesses a tan mill and a refinery flue unique in Brittany.