In Rennes, the State sells a historic monument that it had owned since 1793 | EUROtoday

In Rennes, a web page of historical past is popping. On Monday, December 15, the State signed the sale of an distinctive property that it had owned since 1793: the Saint-Melaine palace. An elegant constructing with a backyard and a fairly courtyard, situated proper subsequent to Thabor, the big park of the Breton capital. After greater than 2 hundred and thirty years of public use, this place, now empty and in poor situation, will return to the non-public sector.

An area developer, the Bâtisseurs d’avenir group, should renovate it from high to backside to put in housing and workplaces. This vital transaction, nevertheless, hides a much less wonderful actuality: whereas it desperately seeks to fill its coffers, the State is discovering it more and more tough to promote its actual property property.

He had been contemplating eliminating the Palais Saint-Melaine for years. Partly constructed within the 1670s inside an unlimited spiritual enclosure, then enlarged round 1720, this constructing had served as a bishopric, earlier than passing into the fold of the State throughout the Revolution. It then had varied makes use of: museum, regulation school, academy rectorate… But the administration poorly maintained it, uncared for it a bit and, in 2021, declared it ineffective for public service. Likely, subsequently, to be bought.

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