List of Christian monasteries in France explained

This is a list of Christian monasteries and religious houses in France, both extant and non-extant, and for either men or women (or both).

Christian religious houses arranged by order

Augustinians

• Chancelade Abbey, Chancelade, Dordogne^[1]
• Fontenelles Abbey, Saint-André-d'Ornay, Vendée ^[2]
• Paris

• • Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus of the Perpetual Adoration (Congrégation des Sacrés Coeurs de Marie et de Jésus de l'Adoration Perpétuelle), Rue de Picpus, Paris, canonesses; formerly the Priory of the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Victory of Lepanto. During the French Revolution the canonesses were expelled, and a certain Coignard took over the buildings as a nursing home for sick prisoners of the Terror: the Maison de Santé de Coignard. The gardens were used for the disposal of the bodies of the victims of the guillotine. After the revolution a community of canonesses was re-installed here, as a memorial to the many dead.^[3]
  • Abbey of St. Genevieve, Paris^[4]
  • Abbey of St. Victor, Paris^{[5] [6]}
• Sablonceaux Abbey, Sablonceaux, Charente-Maritime^[7]
• Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes, Soissons^[8]
• Abbey of St. Loup, Troyes^[9]

Benedictines

(including Cluniacs):

• see List of Benedictine monasteries in France

Carmelites

• Carmel de la Place Maubert^[10]

Carthusians

• see List of Carthusian monasteries in France

Cistercians

(including Trappists):

• see List of Cistercian monasteries in France

Dominicans

• Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette (Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette), friars (Éveux, Rhône)^[11]

Franciscans

• Capuchin Friary, Crest (Monastère des Capucins de Crest) Capuchin friars, (Crest, Drôme)^[12]
• Convent of Poor Clares, Gravelines^[13]

Premonstratensians

• see List of Premonstratensian monasteries in France

See also

• List of Carolingian monasteries
• List of Imperial abbeys

Notes and References

1. Web site: Les Amis de l'Abbaye de Chancelade.
2. Yves Blomme, L'abbaye Notre-Dame des Fontenelles, pp153-159, in Congrès archéologique de France - 151e session - Vendée - 1993, Société française d'archéologie, Paris, 1996
3. Web site: Le Cimetière Révolutionnaire de Picpus. The Pieton De Paris. French. October 26, 2007.
4. Web site: Abbey of Sainte-Geneviève. New Advent.
5. Web site: Coulter. Dale. Abbey of St. Victor. faculty.leeu.edu/. https://web.archive.org/web/20081012012121/http://faculty.leeu.edu/~dcoulter/Abb_of_St_Victor.htm. October 12, 2008.
6. Web site: Abbey of Saint-Victor. New Advent.
7. Web site: Abbey de Sablonceaux. abbaye-sablonceaux.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20141218212156/http://www.abbaye-sablonceaux.com/Abbaye_de_Sablonceaux/Bienvenue.html. December 18, 2014.
8. Web site: L'ancienne abbaye Saint-Jean des Vignes. Ville de Soissons. https://web.archive.org/web/20100522180333/http://www.ville-soissons.fr/decouvrir_soissons/patrimoine/patrimoine_a_decouvrir/architectural/l_ancienne_abbaye_saint_jean_des_vignes. May 22, 2010. French.
9. Web site: Saint-Loup Museum. City of Troyes. https://web.archive.org/web/20071030041443/http://www.ville-troyes.fr/scripts/musees/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=406&L=FR. October 30, 2007. French.
10. Les Grands Carmes de Paris in Abbayes, monastères et couvents de Paris, Paul and Marie-Louise Biver
11. http://www.couventdelatourette.fr/ Website of the Convent of La Tourette
12. Web site: The Capuchins: History and Current Community. dioiscrestois.cef.fr. French.
13. https://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk/publications-static/pdfs/GravelinesPoorClares.pdf Register of the Poor Clares at Gravelines (pdf)