The TRUHELIN MANOR

In the 14th century, there was only a three-room farmhouse, with a second floor accessible from the rear via a rounded staircase. There was a large pond in the lower part of the garden, and a water mill on the dyke, both of which have now disappeared. The only remains from this period are the miller's house and the fountain, adjoined by a drinking trough and a wash-house on the neighboring property. In 1419, Saint Vincent Ferrier, the great Dominican preacher, came to rest at the manor and left his name to the fountain.

Until the Revolution, the manor belonged to noblemen, including a certain La Bourdonnais, who went to Quiberon in 1795 to welcome the emigrants and was shot on the orders of General Hoche. Around 1798, confiscated by the State and sold as property of the Republic", it was bought for next to nothing by Monsieur Jolivet, deputy of the Convention, then public prosecutor.  Jolivet's son, a naval officer, played an active role in the abolition of slavery in Martinique.

Under the impetus of its new owner, Madame la veuve Bouruet-Aubertot, the twenty hectares of the Truhelin and Kerjaffré estate were landscaped and planted with rare species. Although many trees were felled by the storm of 1969, many oaks, holm oaks, European and purple larches, redwoods, altheas, chestnut trees, maples, beeches and magnolias can still be found. She also had driveways dug, a chapel built, a terrace designed and the manor doubled in size. For this work, she called on the architect who built the last house on the Pointe d'Arradon and the Basilica of Sainte Anne d'Auray, Monsieur Normand, the great-grandfather of the current owner. He worked with the same craftsmen as those on the basilica for the stone and wood carvings and interior fittings. 

In 1919, the property was divided in two: Kerjaffré, with the "grand chalet suisse" (Brussels Universal Exhibition 1897), the chapel and the barns, was sold to Monsieur Fouques, a former cavalry officer; Truhelin, with the manor house, the upper outbuildings, the miller's house and the lower farm, went to the son of the architect who had enlarged it, Monsieur Normand.