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Route des Granges de Port-Royal, 78114 Magny-les-Hameaux, France
Abbey founded in 1204 by Mathilde de Garlande. At the end of the Wars of Religion, restoration works. At the beginning of the 17th century, the buildings having become unsanitary, the nuns retreated to the convent of Port-Royal in Paris in 1625\. The secular solitaries who chose to live near the monastery to devote themselves to prayer, intellectual and manual work as well as teaching, settled there in 1638\. They maintain the buildings, drain the bottom of the valley and undertake to raise the ground of the abbey church. Upon the return of the nuns in 1648, the Solitaires retreated to the farm of Les Granges, located above the abbey. In 1651, they enlarged the buildings to install the Small Schools of which Jean Raciné was the student. Having become one of the high places of the Catholic reform and then one of the symbols of political and religious protest against royal absolutism, the community is dispersed in 1709 and the property attributed to the Parisian community. The monastic b
Tags
Musée de France, Édifice religieux & Monument historique
Accès
By public transport: RER C to Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines station or RER B to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse station, then bus 5145 stop Buloyer. By car: from Paris, A13 motorway towards Chartres-Rambouillet, exit at Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines then direction Voisins-le-Bretonneux. From Versailles, departmental D91\. Parking on site.
