Montmartre Abbey

Abbey in Paris

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The Montmartre vineyard - all that remains of the abbey A 19th-century pen and wash drawing of the adjoining church by Antoine-Louis Goblain

Montmartre Abbey (French: Abbaye de Montmartre) was a 12th-century Benedictine nunnery established in the Montmartre district of Paris within the Diocese of Paris.

In 1133, King Louis VI purchased the Merovingian church of Saint Peter of Montmartre in order to establish the abbey and in the process to rebuild the church.[1] The restored church was consecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in a splendid royal ceremony during which Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter, Abbot of Cluny, acted as acolytes.[2]

The abbey was suppressed in 1790, sold in 1794 and demolished during the French Revolution, but its church, Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, survived as the parish church of Montmartre, the oldest church in Paris, now all that remains of the abbey except for a vineyard.[3] The last abbess, Marie-Louise de Laval-Montmorency, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror.[4]

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* List of Benedictine monasteries in France

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1. ^ The Abbey of the Abbesses Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today (France Monthly, Issue 1, 2004)
2. ^ Bailey K. Young, "Archaeology in an Urban Setting: Excavations at Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Paris, 1975-1977", Journal of Field Archaeology 5.3 (Autumn 1978)
3. ^ "Place du Tertre". Paris Digest. 2018. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
4. ^ Monnier, Mechtilde (1921). La dernière abbesse de Montmartre: Marie Louise de Montmorency-Laval, 1723-1794. Paris: Paris P. Lethielleux.

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