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Port-Royal-des-Champs was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Magny-les-Hameaux, in the Vallée de Chevreuse southwest of Paris that launched a number of culturally important institutions. History. The abbey was established in 1204, but became famous when its discipline was reformed in 1609 by its abbess, Mother Marie Angelique Arnauld (1591-1661).
L'histoire de Port-Royal des Champs. Essor et naissance de Port-Royal. Port-Royal des Champs et le jansénisme. De la destruction à la mémoire. La mère Angélique et la réforme du monastère (1609-1625)
Port-Royal des Champs fue un convento cisterciense femenino situado en el valle de Chevreuse al suroeste de París, célebre por la comunidad religiosa de orientación jansenista que se desarrolló allí desde 1634 a 1708.
D’abord simple abbaye cistercienne féminine au cœur du Bassin parisien, Port-Royal devient au XVIIe siècle l’un des hauts lieux de la réforme catholique 4 puis l'un des symboles de la controverse janséniste .
Port-Royal, celebrated abbey of Cistercian nuns that was the centre of Jansenism and of literary activity in 17th-century France. It was founded about 1204 as a Benedictine house by Mathilde de Garlande on a low, marshy site in the valley of Chevreuse, south of Versailles.
The dramatic story of Port Royal has an unlikely beginning; it can be traced from the selection of a reluctant eight-year-old child to assume the office of joint abbess of the old Cistercian convent, some 20 miles west of Paris.
La abadía de Porrois (Yvelines, al suroeste de París) fue fundada en 1204 gracias a la iniciativa de Mathilde de Garlande, siguiendo el deseo de su marido que había muerto luchando en las cruzadas.
