Cordeliers Convent
The Cordeliers Convent (French: Couvent des Cordeliers) was a convent in Paris, France. It gave its name to the Club of the Cordeliers, which held its first meetings there during the French Revolution.
The Cordeliers Convent during the French Revolution, in a late 19th-century illustration
- There were several Cordeliers Convents in France. This article is about the one in Paris.
The refectory, the only remaining part of the convent, photographed in 2012. It is now classified as a monument historique
Cordeliers was the name given in France to the Conventual Franciscans.
The building later housed the Dupuytren Museum of anatomy in connection with the school of medicine. This was moved in 2016.
Burials at the convent
- Marie of Brabant, Queen of France
- Arthur II, Duke of Brittany
- Blanche of France, Infanta of Castile
- Joan I of Navarre, Queen of France and Navarre[1]
- Marie of Brabant, Queen of France[1]
- Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, Queen of France[1]
References
- Gaude-Ferragu 2016, p. 142.
Sources
- Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle (2016). Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500. Palgrave Macmillan.
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