
Le couvent de la reine - de compiegne a versailles
Résumé
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To direct the educational establishment she wished to open in Versailles, Queen Marie Leszczynska chose the sisters of Notre Dame from the monastery of Compiègne. The death of the queen in 1768 did not disrupt the plans, as her daughters, the princesses - Adélaïde in particular - were determined to see them taken to fruition. Six nuns were brought from Lorraine to renovate the Compiègne group, so that, in October 1772, twenty-eight nuns who had all opted for the strictest form of rules laid down by their founder, Pierre Fourier [1565-1640) arrived in Versailles. In the enchantingly beautiful buildings designed for them by Richard Mique, they devoted themselves for twenty years to the education of sixty boarders and hundreds of little girls from Versailles, pursuing a policy of active learning, which was new at the time. When, in October 1792, the implacable laws of the Revolution caused the dispersal of the religious communities, the nuns remained united and, once the Terror was over, created a new school at Versailles, Notre-Dame du Grandchamp. After the 1904 exile, it engendered other schools which are, in a way, subsidiaries of the Convent of the Queen. And since the prestigious Lycée Hoche has returned the magnificently restored buildings to their original purpose, one can even state that Marie Leszczynska's foundation lives on, providing thousands of young people with an excellent education.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Marie-Claire Tihon |
Parution | 07/05/2012 |
Nb. de pages | 179 |
Format | 14.5 x 23.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 320g |
EAN13 | 9782204096492 |
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