Type Castle Country France Completed 1883 Opened 1883 Construction started 1863 | Town or city Concarneau Current tenants Christophe Lévèque Address 29900 Concarneau, France Phone +33 2 98 97 36 50 Architect Joseph Bigot | |
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Client Zénaïde Narichkine-Ioussoupov Architectural style Gothic Revival architecture Similar Musée de la Pêche, Walled town of Concarneau, Saint‑Goustan, Manoir de Kerazan, Quimper Cathedral | ||
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The Château de Keriolet is a castle built in the 19th century in Concarneau (France).
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History
At the end of 1850s, under the Second French Empire, Charles Chauveau met the Russian princess Zénaïde Narichkine-Ioussoupov. She was in love with him and bought him a count's title of Chauveau. The Château de Keriolet was commissioned by Zénaïde Narichkine-Ioussoupov (Felix Yusupov' defer grandmother), and built at the end of the 19th century by the French architect Joseph Bigot.
The count of Chauveau, 57-year-old, died in October, 1882 to Kériolet. Charles de Chauveau had bequeathed the domain to her sister, Madam Prieur. Zénaïde Narichkine-Ioussoupov bought back Kériolet and decided then to donate it, with her lands and her collections, to the department of Finistère
In 1956, Felix Yusupov won a lawsuit and regained possession of the castle from the department of Finistère. The castle was sold to the city of Concarneau in 1971. In 1988, Christophe Lévèque, acquired the castle, restored it and reopened it to the public.