The Parliament of Brittany (Parlement de Bretagne)

The Parlement de Bretagne, the palatial original home of the Breton Parliament and now of the Rennes Court of Appeal, was designed in 1618 by Salomon de Brosse, architect of the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. It was the most important building in Rennes to escape the 1720 flames, but in 1994, following a massive demonstration by Breton fishermen demanding state subsidies, a disastrous fire broke out at the building, leaving it a charred shell.