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1737

In 1737 following money-problems, their seigneurie was lost through a foreclosure.
The castle was bought by Angélique-François de REGNOUARD, Comte De VILLAYER, whose mother was a TANOUAR by birth.
We don't know if he came to Plourivo because he belonged to the circle of the " Princes de Condé Conti " and spent most of his time in Chantilly and Versailles.
He let the administration of Le Bourblanc to Allain ARMEZ, trader in Paimpol and a big land owner.
When Mr De VILLAYER died, the castle was sold in 1749 to Jean ARMEZ, Allain's son .
From that time the ARMEZ family did not leave Le Bourblanc, serving the Monarchies of Divine Rights,
The Empire, the 3rd Republique (1914).
Jean's elder son, Nicolas ARMEZ, a Priest, was the first " Revolutionnaire " and the first Mayor of Plourivo. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (1825), a year after the last King of France,
Charles X , assumed the throne.

1862

The front wall of the castle, built four centuries before, was destroyed and replaced by a thinner wall with many doors and windows.
In 1865 the moat was filled, in order to build upon it the right wing of the castle, with a stable, a curing salt-troom, a dining-room for the personal and bedrooms upstairs.
Then the left wing was built with a coach-house and a joinery workshop and on the first floor : the office and the library of Louis Armez, Mayor of Plourivo and Deputy of the french Assembly.
In the twenties after he died in 1917 the castle was sold.

1931

At the end of 1931 the Count Henry De Mauduit and his wife Roberta (" Betty ") Laurie born in Scotland and educated in Boston / USA, bought Le Bourblanc. Thanks to the generosity of her uncle, Colonel Edward Nicholl Dickerson from Newport / Rhode Island, USA, the castle was renewed.
In the late thirties the castle welcome a lot of artists and writers of the Paris circle (Pierre BENOIT, Joseph KESSEL….).
After France was invaded in september 1939, Henry De Mauduit joined De Gaulle in England.
Betty who stayed in Le Bourblanc participated in the resistance-network by hiding pilots of the allied forces.
In June 1943 she was arrested by the Gestapo and driven to the Concentration camp of Ravensbruck.
On the 20th of July 1944, the date of the assassination attempt on Hitler she was driven to a camp close to Buchenwald. Betty was liberated in April 1945 and spent all the rest of her life in Le Bourblanc.
She died on the 1st of August 1975. Her grave can be found in the local cemetery and a memorial plaque in Plourivo church.
V.I.P.s came after the war to Le Bourblanc to visit her, such as Georges Bidault, Minister of France under the 4th Republique and Lord Mounbatten, British Admiral and Viceroy of India and many others.

1994

After it was seriously damaged by fire in 1990, the castle was bought in the spring of 1994 by Mr. Emile Philippot.

" Le Bourblanc " is slowly arising from the ashes, like the Phoenix.