List of Christian monasteries in France
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
[edit]Augustinians
[edit]Benedictines
[edit](including Cluniacs):
Carmelites
[edit]- Carmel of Lisieux[1]
- Carmelite convent, Nantes, Loire-Atlantique[2]
- Carmelite convent, Faubourg Saint-Jacques, otherwise the Carmel de l'Incarnation, Paris[3]
- Carmel de la Place Maubert, Paris[4]
Carthusians
[edit]Cistercians
[edit](including Trappists):
Dominicans
[edit]- Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette (Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette), friars (Éveux, Rhône)[5]
Franciscans
[edit]- Capuchin Friary, Crest (Monastère des Capucins de Crest) Capuchin friars, (Crest, Drôme)[6]
- Convent of Poor Clares, Gravelines[7]
Premonstratensians
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tangi Cavalin, Nathalie Viet-Depaule: "La Mission de France et le carmel de Lisieux", Histoire monde et cultures religieuses, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2010, p. 141 ff. (ISSN 1957-5246, 2264-4938)
- ^ Yves Durand: Les Grands carmes de Nantes: un couvent dans la ville: 1318-1790, Rome, Édition carmelitane, coll. "Textus et studia historica carmelitana" (No. 23), 1997, ISBN 8872880467
- ^ Jean-Baptiste Eriau: L'ancien Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques (1604-1792), 1929, Paris, de Gigord, A. Picard
- ^ "Les Grands Carmes de Paris" in Abbayes, monastères et couvents de Paris, Paul and Marie-Louise Biver
- ^ Website of the Convent of La Tourette
- ^ "The Capuchins: History and Current Community". dioiscrestois.cef.fr (in French).
- ^ Register of the Poor Clares at Gravelines (pdf)