Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Maison dite du Canon
La Roche-Bernard, Morbihan, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Maison dite du Canon sise en bordure de la R.N. 774 (cad. AC 142) : inscription par arrêté du 11 janvier 1941
- Protection dates
- 1941/01/11 : inscrit MH
- Type
- maison
- Main period of construction
- 4e quart 16e siècle
- Dates
- 1596
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- place du Pilory ; place Louis-Levesque
- Commune
- La Roche-Bernard
- Département
- Morbihan
- Region
- Bretagne
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 47.51860, -2.30289
- Mérimée reference
- PA00091636
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1607 map "Poictou" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Maison construite en 1596 dans le style où les formes gothiques subsistaient encore. La façade principale était percée d'ouvertures avec meneaux et croisillons aujourd'hui disparus. Un campanile abritant la cloche de la pendule municipale remonte probablement à l'époque où la ville y établit la mairie, en 1849. La maison doit son nom aux événements qui ont suivi la bataille navale des Cardinaux en 1756 où une flotte fut battue par les Anglais. Onze bateaux se réfugièrent dans l'estuaire de la Vilaine et s'échouèrent à marée basse. Tous renflouèrent sauf "l'Inflexible" qui resta envasé. Son équipage débarqua et resta dans le pays. Le commandant ou les officiers s'établirent dans cette maison, y transportant sans doute de l'armement. Un canon est fiché en terre, à l'encoignure et sert de buttoir.
English translation
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History
House built in 1596 in the style where Gothic forms still subsisted. The main façade was pierced by openings with mullions and cross-bars now disappeared. A campanile housing the bell of the municipal clock probably dates back to the time when the town established the town hall there, in 1849. The house owes its name to the events that followed the naval battle of the Cardinaux in 1756 when a fleet was defeated by the English. Eleven boats took refuge in the estuary of the Vilaine and ran aground at low tide. All were refloated except "l'Inflexible" which remained silted up. Its crew disembarked and remained in the area. The commander or the officers settled in this house, no doubt transporting armaments there. A cannon is stuck in the ground, at the corner and serves as a bumper.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.