The English ones brood

The convent of the English Bénédictines of Field-in-the Alouette is founded in 1664 in the Saint-Marcel Suburb, with Paris.

French revolution

Under the Terror, in October 1793, the nuns were made up captive in their own house. They had been denounced like holding of the secret assemblies in their vault, i.e. one said the mass to it . A decree prescribed the arrest of all the English present on the territory.

The convent was changed into house of detention, called " the prison of Anglaises" or " the prison of the street of Lourcine". One sent to it soon a crowd of people. Among them, Jacques Duval d' Espréménil, adviser with the Parliament (guillotine), Marie Babin de Grandmaison, famous actress (guillotinée), Mrs. de Bonneuil, woman of spirit, Marie-Louise O' Murphy, widowed Lenormand, which had been the main of Louis XV, the duchess of Luynes, famous ladies of Holy-Amaranthe, tenancières of house of plays (guillotinées), Marie-Genevière de Vassan, marchioness of Mirabeau, mother of the powerful orator, and a whole batch of nuns of other congregations.

July 16th 1794, the sisters were led to the Château of Vincennes, where they were locked up in the keep planned for the political prisoners of the Old Mode. November 7th, one moved them in another convent, the Saint-Victor ditches. They were released after Thermidor, on March 15th 1795. The general vicar of Paris considered it careful to put them at the shelter. July 3rd, they unloaded in Dover and left never again the England.

Their convent, sold like national good in 1799, was destroyed at the twentieth century.

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