From the Lodge Convent to the Legion of Honour Education Centre

Name: From the Lodge Convent to the Legion of Honour Education Centre
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur des Loges

The guided tour of the buildings will allow you to discover the courtyard and the chapel, as well as the places of life of the students and the park, located in the heart of the forest of Saint-Germai

Saturday 16 September 2023, 14:30, 16:00Passed

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Upon registration only

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Clémence Danon Boileau

The guided tour of the buildings will allow you to discover the courtyard of honour and the chapel, as well as the places of life of the students and the park, located in the heart of the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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About the location

Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur des Loges

Les Loges - Route d'Achères 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Entirely rebuilt under Napoleon III, then enveloped by new constructions in 1962, this former convent of the Augustinians houses for nearly two centuries one of the educational houses of the Legion of Honour, boarding school for young girls founded by Napoleon I and attached to the great chancery of the order. It is a public institution and now houses 500 college students - girls, granddaughters and great-granddaughters of Legion of Honour, Military Medal and National Order of Merit. To celebrate the birth of her son, the future Louis XIV, at Saint-Germain on September 5, 1638, Anne of Austria had a convent of the Augustinians built near the chapel of Saint-Fiacre, whose buildings still standing in 1811 were destined by Napoleon I to the boarding school of the orphans of Madame de Lezeau. This orphanage became, under Louis XVIII, in 1816, the third House of Education of the Legion of Honour, after Ecouen and Saint-Denis.