Bignan (French pronunciation: [biɲɑ̃]; Breton: Begnen) is a commune in the Morbihan department in Brittany in northwestern France.

Bignan is only half an hour from the main cities of Morbihan: Vannes, Lorient and Pontivy.

[6][7] After the revolution Castle Kerguéhennec, sometimes nicknamed the " Versailles breton", served as a warehouse for the Chouans to remove crops to the law of requisition of grain applied by the Republican administration.

[8][9] In 1906, traces of an Iron Age settlements and in particular of the Acheulean period were found near the town.

The building was built at the end of the 18th century on the site of a ruined Romanesque church.

On the initiative of the rector of the time, Pierre Nourry, and following his plans, the construction of a new church was begun in 1787.

[15] The first stone was laid on 19 August 1787, but construction was interrupted during the French Revolution and the exile of Abbot Nourry, refractory, work resumed in 1801.

[16] The church - with the sacristy, the furniture that is integrated and the placier - is registered as a historic monument by order of 23 February 2016.

Château de Kerguéhennec, nicknamed the Versailles of Breton, is an 18th-century castle located in Bignan.