Manoir Béranger, Private mansion in Tours, France

Manoir Béranger is a private mansion in Tours with distinct reception rooms on the ground floor. The building features extensive basement levels with original spaces for kitchen and storage functions.

Georges Goüin, son of senator Eugène Goüin, bought the plots at 114/116 boulevard Béranger in October and November 1883, paying 163,157 francs for 4,546 m², and had the mansion built in 1884 by architect Stéphen Sauvestre. Goüin held large receptions there, including balls on 31 January 1888 and 24 November 1900 attended by some 250 guests. The building stands on part of the former Saint-Joseph bastion of the city ramparts.

The building is now Villa Rabelais, a centre for gastronomic cultures. Its name recalls the Tours-born writer François Rabelais. Georges Goüin held two documented balls here, on 31 January 1888 and 24 November 1900; the second drew nearly 250 guests, about fifty of them dancing couples, and opened the city's winter social season.

The mansion stands at 116 Boulevard Béranger, on ground that was part of the old Saint-Joseph bastion of the city ramparts. It is now known as Villa Rabelais – Maison des cultures gastronomiques. The grounds once ran through to Rue Victor Hugo, where a carriage entrance and a kitchen garden at number 113 belonged to the property.

The plot straddles the former Saint-Joseph bastion of the Tours city walls, and the mansion's grounds once ran through to Rue Victor Hugo, where a carriage entrance and a service yard with stables for six horses stood. Goüin added a separate 850 m² vegetable garden in 1895.