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Saint-Maur

The Maurist houses of the province of Brittany

Thirty abbeys and eleven priories, from Touraine and Anjou to the tip of Finistère.

The province of Brittany gathered the Maurist houses of Brittany, Maine, Anjou and Touraine, together with Mont-Saint-Michel. Several Breton abbeys entered it together in 1628, when the Society of Brittany, which had reformed them since the beginning of the century, was united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur. Each entry gives the place, the diocese under the Ancien Régime, the date the house joined the congregation and a short notice, with, where it exists, the engraved view from the Monasticon Gallicanum.

The sources do not always agree on the date of union to the congregation: the range is then given (1642-1646). “c.” marks a date that rests on a secondary source only.

The lists of priors follow dom Charvin, who drew them up from the acts of the general chapters and diets of the congregation.

The province on the map

Mas-GarnierHouses of the province of Brittany

The houses

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Aubin d’Angers
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Aubin d’Angers
The house today. Photo: Mbzt, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Aubin d’Angers

Angers (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1660

A church served by clerics, Saint-Aubin became a Benedictine abbey in 966 under Count Geoffroy Grisegonelle, according to Beaunier-Besse. Bishop Henri Arnauld introduced the Congregation of Saint-Maur there in 1660; the monks then rebuilt the monastic buildings. The church was demolished in the early 19th century. The conventual buildings now house the prefecture of Maine-et-Loire, near the Saint-Aubin tower.

The Maurist priors, 1663-1788
  1. 1663 Dom Gérard Pinet
  2. 1666 Dom Robert Hardy
  3. 1669 Contin.
  4. 1672 Dom Joseph Bourret
  5. 1675 Dom François du Vivier
  6. 1678 Contin.
  7. 1681 Dom Germain Cousin
  8. 1684 Contin.
  9. 1687 Dom Jean Lorier
  10. 1690 Contin.
  11. 1693 Dom Jacques Duchemin
  12. 1696 Dom Jacques Le Thias
  13. 1699 Contin.
  14. 1702 Dom Hervé Ménard (adm.)
  15. 1705 Dom Charles Hérissé
  16. 1708 Contin.
  17. 1711 Dom Altin Jumeau
  18. 1714 Dom Bernard Durand
  19. 1717 Dom Jos. Hyacinthe Coutart
  20. 1720 Contin.
  21. 1723 Dom Bède Bernard
  22. 1726 Dom Jacques Le Gai
  23. 1729 Contin.
  24. 1733 Dom Guillaume Roumain
  25. 1736 Dom René Even
  26. 1739 Dom Léonard Geffard
  27. 1742 Contin.
  28. 1745 Dom Jean de Launay
  29. 1748 Contin.
  30. 1751 Dom Yves Romain
  31. 1754 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  32. 1757 Dom Joseph Le Chapelier
  33. 1760 Contin.
  34. 1763 Dom Pierre Nicole
  35. 1766 Dom Jos. Marie Malherbe
  36. 1769 Contin.
  37. 1772 Dom Jean Bapt. Le Texier
  38. 1775 Dom Jean François Potier
  39. 1778 Dom Jean Marie Mancel
  40. 1781 Contin.
  41. 1783 Dom Charles Auguste Flosceau
  42. 1788 Dom Jean Marie Mancel

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 81-82 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (Saint-Aubin, 13 religieux) · POP/Mérimée PA00108861, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Aubin, actuelle préfecture · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d’Angers
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d’Angers
The house today. Photo: Mith, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d’Angers

Angers (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1672

Founded by Count Foulques Nerra, the abbey of Saint-Nicolas received monks from Marmoutier in 1033, who were soon replaced by monks from Saint-Aubin; Pope Urban II consecrated its church in 1096. After several attempts, the Maurists introduced their reform there in 1672, then rebuilt the conventual buildings in the 18th century. These now house a school and a retirement home.

The Maurist priors, 1675-1788
  1. 1675 Dom François Chevrier
  2. 1678 P. Georges Louvel
  3. 1681 Dom Gabriel Bellordeau
  4. 1684 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  5. 1687 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  6. 1690 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  7. 1693 Dom Etienne Badier
  8. 1696 Dom Laurent Hunault
  9. 1699 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  10. 1702 Dom Bernard Fernet
  11. 1705 Contin.
  12. 1708 Dom François Riant
  13. 1711 Contin.
  14. 1714 Dom Gilles Lelièvre
  15. 1717 Contin.
  16. 1720 Dom Gilles Didon
  17. 1723 Dom Pierre Privé
  18. 1726 Contin.
  19. 1729 P. S. G.
  20. 1733 Dom Pierre Privé
  21. 1736 Dom Jacques Légal
  22. 1739 Contin.
  23. 1742 Dom Claude Levacher
  24. 1745 Dom Anselme Amiraud
  25. 1748 Dom Claude Levacher
  26. 1751 Contin.
  27. 1754 Dom Joseph Aimé Surinan
  28. 1757 Dom Julien Du Bos
  29. 1760 Contin.
  30. 1763 Dom Ambroise.Augustin Chevreux
  31. 1766 Dom Pierre Jehors
  32. 1769 Dom Philippe LebeL
  33. 1772 Dom Jean Bapt. Giron
  34. 1775 Contin.
  35. 1778 Dom Emmanuel M. Fr. Piolaine
  36. 1781 Contin.
  37. 1783 Dom Urbain Bovet
  38. 1788 Dom Emmanuel M. Fr. Piolaine

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 83-84 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (Saint-Nicolas, 10 religieux) · POP/Mérimée PA00108862, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Nicolas · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Sauveur de l’Évière
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Prieuré Saint-Sauveur de l’Évière

Angers (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: date not established

Geoffroy Martel founded the priory of l’Évière in Angers and in 1056 placed it under the abbey of la Trinité de Vendôme, which he had recently established. Incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur at a date we have not been able to establish, it kept a regular community until the Revolution. According to Beaunier-Besse, its prior, Dom Chabanel, was guillotined in Angers.

The Maurist priors, 1633-1788
  1. 1633 Dom Maur Tassin
  2. 1636 Dom Ambroise Louet (adm.)
  3. 1639 Dom Aignan Cahouet
  4. 1642 Dom Gabriel Coutard
  5. 1645 Contin.
  6. 1648 Dom Vincent Le Grand
  7. 1651 Contin.
  8. 1654 Dom Albert Maubreuil
  9. 1657 Contin.
  10. 1660 Dom Gérard Pinet
  11. 1663 Dom Grégoire Bodin (adm.)
  12. 1666 Dom René Roquet
  13. 1669 Dom Joseph Desormes
  14. 1672 Dom Grégoire Bodin
  15. 1675 Contin.
  16. 1678 Dom Michel Canart
  17. 1681 Dom Mathurin Jos. Foucqué
  18. 1684 Contin.
  19. 1687 Dom Pierre Terrien
  20. 1690 Contin.
  21. 1693 Dom François Maury
  22. 1696 Contin.
  23. 1699 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  24. 1702 Dom Léonard Chastel
  25. 1705 Dom François Riant
  26. 1708 Dom Georges Louvel
  27. 1711 Contin.
  28. 1714 Dom François Riant
  29. 1717 Contin.
  30. 1720 Dom Pierre Prieur (adm.)
  31. 1723 Dom Jos. Hyacinthe Coustard
  32. 1726 Contin.
  33. 1729 Yves le Fresne
  34. 1733 Dom Pierre Allard
  35. 1736 Dom Joseph Bérard
  36. 1739 Dom Thomas Lohier
  37. 1742 Dom Pierre Privé
  38. 1745 Dom René Buisson
  39. 1748 D, Etienne de Langle
  40. 1751 Dom Jean Joseph Polon
  41. 1754 Dom Claude Levacher
  42. 1757 Contin.
  43. 1760 Dom Pierre Nicole
  44. 1763 Dom Joseph Le Chapelier
  45. 1766 Contin.
  46. 1769 P. S. G.
  47. 1772 P. S. G.
  48. 1775 P. S. G.
  49. 1778 P. S. G.
  50. 1781 Dom Jean Bapt. Giron
  51. 1783 Dom Jean Pierre Braux
  52. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 102-103 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · Bibale (IRHT), Prieuré Saint-Sauveur-de-l’Évière · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Serge d’Angers
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Serge d’Angers
The house today. Photo: Sémhur, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Serge d’Angers

Angers (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1629

Founded in the 7th century according to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey of Saint-Serge was restored around the year 1000 by the bishops of Angers. It was placed under the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1629; monks of the congregation studied canon law there, and a decree of 1769 recognised this college. The church is now a parish church; the enclosure later housed the major seminary, then the Lycée Joachim-du-Bellay.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1788
  1. 1630 Dom Guillaume Gérard
  2. 1633 Dom Bède dé Fiesque
  3. 1636 Dom Grégoire Verthamont
  4. 1639 Dom Michel Pirou
  5. 1642 Dom Jean Godefroy
  6. 1645 Contin.
  7. 1648 Dom Marc Rivart
  8. 1651 Contin.
  9. 1654 Dom Gérard Pinet
  10. 1657 Contin.
  11. 1660 Dom Claude Martin
  12. 1663 Contin.
  13. 1666 Dom Julien Raguideau
  14. 1669 Dom François Chévrier
  15. 1672 Dom Anselme de la Roque
  16. 1675 Dom Sylvestre Perreciot
  17. 1678 Dom Jean Lorier
  18. 1681 Dom François Duvivier
  19. 1684 Contin.
  20. 1687 Dom Charles Hérissé
  21. 1690 Dom Jacques du Chemin
  22. 1693 Dom Germain Cousin
  23. 1696 Contin.
  24. 1699 Dom Charles Hérissé
  25. 1702 Contin.
  26. 1705 Dom Hervé Ménard
  27. 1708 Contin.
  28. 1711 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  29. 1714 Dom Joseph Hyacinthe Coutard
  30. 1717 Dom René Béchereau
  31. 1720 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  32. 1723 Contin.
  33. 1726 Dom Placide Féron
  34. 1729 Dom Jos. Hyacinthe Coutard
  35. 1733 Contin.
  36. 1736 Dom Claude Levacher
  37. 1739 Contin.
  38. 1742 Dom Joseph Legault
  39. 1745 Contin.
  40. 1748 P. S. G.
  41. 1751 Dom Joseph Legault
  42. 1754 Contin.
  43. 1757 P. S. G.
  44. 1760 Dom Joseph Legault
  45. 1763 Dom Pierre Prigent Jehors
  46. 1766 Dom René Julien Massey
  47. 1769 P. S. G.
  48. 1772 P. S. G.
  49. 1775 P. S. G.
  50. 1778 P. S. G.
  51. 1781 Dom Jean Bapt. Monclair
  52. 1783 Dom Jacques Joseph Laborde
  53. 1788 Dom Nicolas Renaudin

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 85-86 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (Saint-Serge, 13 religieux) · POP/Mérimée PA00108863, Abbaye Saint-Serge (ancienne) · POP/Mérimée PA49000025, Ancien grand séminaire Saint-Serge, aujourd’hui lycée Joachim-du-Bellay · Huynes, Histoire générale de l’abbaye du Mont-St-Michel, éd. Beaurepaire, t. II, 1873, p. 204-205 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité de Beaulieu-lès-Loches

Beaulieu-lès-Loches (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1662

The abbey of la Sainte-Trinité was founded by Foulques Nerra, Count of Anjou, who wished to be buried there (1007 according to Beaunier-Besse). Afflicted by the Hundred Years’ War, it was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1662. The Maurists put up a conventual building there whose foundation stone was laid in 1700; it now houses the town hall. The church, partly in ruins, is a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Antoine Portail
  2. 1669 Dom Antoine Portail
  3. 1672 Dom Charles Turpin
  4. 1675 Dom Charles Turpin
  5. 1678 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  6. 1681 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  7. 1684 Dom Daniel Billouet
  8. 1687 Dom Daniel Billouet
  9. 1690 Dom René Boisgautier
  10. 1693 Dom Jean Gérard
  11. 1696 Dom Joseph Miniac
  12. 1699 Dom Toussaint Courtin
  13. 1702 Dom Toussaint Courtin
  14. 1705 Dom Joseph Goutard
  15. 1708 Dom Bernard Fernet
  16. 1711 Dom Bernard Fernet
  17. 1714 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  18. 1717 Dom Gatien Mautrot
  19. 1720 Dom J. De Maillé
  20. 1723 Dom René Gendry
  21. 1726 Dom René Gendry
  22. 1729 Dom Bernard Geslin
  23. 1733 Dom Jacques Graffin
  24. 1736 Dom Etienne Bérard
  25. 1739 Dom Réginald Moigno
  26. 1748 Dom Julien Du Bos
  27. 1751 Dom J. Bertin
  28. 1754 Dom J. Bertin
  29. 1757 Dom Nicolas Adam
  30. 1757 Dom Tanguy Avril
  31. 1760 Dom Nicolas Adam
  32. 1760 Dom Tanguy Avril
  33. 1763 Dom Tanguy Avril
  34. 1766 Dom André Etienne Duchemin
  35. 1769 Dom Jean Fresnel
  36. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Cerf
  37. 1775 Dom Jean Louis De Kerbusso
  38. 1778 Dom Mathurin Chauveau
  39. 1781 Dom Urbain Douet
  40. 1783 Dom Pascal Benoît
  41. 1788 Dom Pascal Benoît

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 24-25 · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00097559, Ancienne abbaye de la Trinité

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bourgueil
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bourgueil
The house today. Photo: Yann Gwilhoù, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bourgueil

Bourgueil (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1630

Founded in 990 by Emma, wife of Guillaume, Count of Poitou, the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Bourgueil, in the diocese of Angers, joined the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1630. From 1720 the monks put up a new building for the refectory and the dormitory. Sold as national property, the abbey lost its church and its cloister; the abbot’s lodging, the barns and this building survive.

The Maurist priors, 1633-1788
  1. 1633 Dom Odilon Bataille
  2. 1636 Dom Benoît Beaurepaire
  3. 1639 Contin.
  4. 1642 Dom Phlippe Cadeau
  5. 1645 Contin.
  6. 1648 Dom Nicolas Vallée
  7. 1651 Contin.
  8. 1654 Dom Philippe Leroy
  9. 1657 Contin.
  10. 1660 Dom Philibert Nitot
  11. 1663 Dom Boniface Le Tam
  12. 1666 Contin.
  13. 1669 Dom Martin Le Poitevin
  14. 1672 Contin.
  15. 1675 Dom Vital Armand
  16. 1678 Contin.
  17. 1681 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  18. 1684 Contin.
  19. 1687 Dom Louis Taschée
  20. 1690 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  21. 1693 Dom J. Bapt. Guyon
  22. 1696 Contin.
  23. 1699 Dom Georges Ferriau
  24. 1702 Dom Yves Gofuri (adm.)
  25. 1705 Dom Claude Patron
  26. 1708 Dom Charles Le Boucher
  27. 1711 Cont
  28. 1714 Dom Bède Bernard,
  29. 1717 Contin.
  30. 1720 Dom Bonaventure Aubert
  31. 1723 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  32. 1725 Dom Jean Murault
  33. 1729 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  34. 1733 Dom Léonard Geffrard
  35. 1736 Contin.
  36. 1739 Dom Jean Murault
  37. 1742 Contin.
  38. 1745 Dom Pierre Martin
  39. 1748 Contin.
  40. 1751 Dom Réginald Moigno
  41. 1754 Contin.
  42. 1757 Dom J. Bapt. Barbier
  43. 1760 Contin.
  44. 1763 Dom Léonard Geffard
  45. 1766 Dom J. François Dureau
  46. 1769 Contin.
  47. 1772 Dom J. Jacques Dupuy
  48. 1775 Dom J. Julien Labbé
  49. 1778 Contin.
  50. 1781 Dom J. Bapt. Bellegarde
  51. 1783 Dom Plac. Fr. Xavier Estin
  52. 1788 Dom Duval

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 87-88 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (Bourgueil, 9 religieux) · POP/Mérimée PA00097594, Abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Pierre de Bourgueil · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Château-Gontier
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Château-Gontier
The house today. Photo: Romain Bréget, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Château-Gontier

Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne (Mayenne) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1660

The priory of Saint-Jean-Baptiste was founded in the 11th century by the abbey of Saint-Aubin d’Angers. It was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1660, according to Beaunier-Besse. Its Romanesque church, which retains remains of wall paintings, has become a parish church; it is listed as a historic monument.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1669 Dom Jacques Jolly
  2. 1672 Dom Jean Hermier
  3. 1675 Dom François Rousin
  4. 1678 Dom Jacques Morin
  5. 1681 Dom Jacques Morin
  6. 1684 Dom Joseph Gouin
  7. 1687 Dom Jean Baptiste Girard
  8. 1690 Dom Jean Baptiste Girard
  9. 1693 Dom Joseph Miniac
  10. 1696 Dom Martin Drouin
  11. 1699 Dom Martin Drouin
  12. 1702 Dom Pierre Merceron
  13. 1705 Dom René Cabaret
  14. 1708 Dom René Bechereau
  15. 1711 Dom Bède Bernard
  16. 1714 Dom Jacques Charles Le Boucher
  17. 1717 Dom Gilles Didon
  18. 1720 Dom Gilles Lelièvre
  19. 1723 Dom Placide Ernault
  20. 1726 Dom Placide Ernault
  21. 1729 Dom Etienne Bérard
  22. 1733 Dom Etienne Bérard
  23. 1736 Dom Pierre Privé
  24. 1739 Dom Pierre Privé
  25. 1742 Dom Louis Mollandin
  26. 1745 Dom Louis Mollandin
  27. 1751 Dom Louis Mollandin
  28. 1754 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  29. 1757 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  30. 1760 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  31. 1763 Dom Pierre Hutru
  32. 1766 Dom Jul. Gilles Pitteu
  33. 1769 Dom Pierre Hutru
  34. 1772 Dom Pierre Hutru
  35. 1775 Dom Pierre Hutru
  36. 1778 Dom François Chabarelle
  37. 1781 Dom Pierre Hutru
  38. 1783 Dom J. François René Perdoux
  39. 1788 Dom Jean François Lemasson

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 103-104 · Lecestre (1902), p. 14 · POP Mérimée PA00109484, Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Paul de Cormery
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Paul de Cormery
The house today. Photo: Mj.galais, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Paul de Cormery

Cormery (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1662-1663

The abbey of Saint-Paul was founded in 791 by Ithier, abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours, according to Beaunier-Besse. Ruined by the Normans, it was restored soon after, and later entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1662 or 1663. The monks left it in February 1790; the abbey was sold as national property in 1791 and then used as a quarry. The Saint-Paul tower and parts of the conventual buildings remain.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Célestin Chotard
  2. 1669 Dom André Pillot
  3. 1672 Dom André Pillot
  4. 1675 Dom Etienne Demonts
  5. 1678 Dom Charles Turpin
  6. 1681 Dom Charles Turpin
  7. 1684 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  8. 1687 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  9. 1690 Dom Georges Terriau
  10. 1693 Dom Jean Poirier
  11. 1696 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  12. 1699 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  13. 1702 Dom François Mauri
  14. 1705 Dom François Mauri
  15. 1708 Dom Joseph Auffret
  16. 1711 Dom Joseph Auffret
  17. 1714 Dom Jean Navières
  18. 1720 Dom Jean Navières
  19. 1723 Dom François Marault
  20. 1726 Dom Gilles Didon
  21. 1733 Dom Pierre Marie Lelièvre
  22. 1736 Dom Joseph Legault
  23. 1739 Dom Joseph Legault
  24. 1742 Dom Julien Guillotel
  25. 1745 Dom Julien Guillotel
  26. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  27. 1751 Dom Julien De Bos
  28. 1754 Dom Pierre Caillhava
  29. 1757 Dom Pierre Hutru
  30. 1760 Dom Etienne De Langle
  31. 1763 Dom Claude Marie Hermans
  32. 1766 Dom Barthélémy Dugast
  33. 1769 Dom Antoine Jean Quinquet
  34. 1772 Dom Antoine Jean Quinquet
  35. 1775 Dom J. Marie Nicolas Baron
  36. 1778 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  37. 1781 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  38. 1783 Dom François Pierre Courtois
  39. 1788 Dom François Pierre Courtois

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 25-26 · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · Inventaire général, POP IA37000001, abbaye de bénédictins Saint-Paul · POP Mérimée PA00097710, Ancienne abbaye bénédictine · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Clément de Craon
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Clément de Craon
The house today. Photo: GO69, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Clément de Craon

Craon (Mayenne) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628

The priory of Saint-Clément was founded by the abbey of Saint-Aubin d’Angers, then placed by Geoffroy Martel under la Trinité de Vendôme around 1040; the dispute between the two abbeys ended with an agreement in 1092. The priory was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1628, according to Beaunier-Besse. An entrance pavilion, medieval cellars and remains of the chapel of Notre-Dame-la-Grande survive.

The Maurist priors, 1628-1788
  1. 1628 Dom Guillaume Gérard
  2. 1630 Dom Faron De Chalus
  3. 1633 Dom Aignan Cahouet
  4. 1636 Dom Aignan Cahouet
  5. 1639 Dom Fabien Buteux
  6. 1642 Dom Fabien Buteux
  7. 1648 Dom François Hardy
  8. 1651 Dom Innocent Flahaut
  9. 1654 Dom Innocent Flahaut
  10. 1657 Dom Grégoire Legrand
  11. 1660 Dom Anselme La Roque
  12. 1663 Dom Anselme La Roque
  13. 1666 Dom Guillaume De Rieux
  14. 1669 Dom Jacques Sergent
  15. 1672 Dom Antoine Sainctoire
  16. 1675 Dom Nicolas Asselin
  17. 1678 Dom Pierre Gonnier
  18. 1681 Dom Nicolas Le Poitevin
  19. 1684 Dom Charles Turpin
  20. 1687 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  21. 1690 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  22. 1693 Dom René Boisgautier
  23. 1696 Dom Philippe Philibert
  24. 1699 Dom René Bechereau
  25. 1702 Dom René Bechereau
  26. 1705 Dom Toussaint Courtin
  27. 1708 Dom Etienne Bérard
  28. 1711 Dom Etienne Bérard
  29. 1714 Dom Pierre Marie Lelièvre
  30. 1717 Dom Pierre Marie Lelièvre
  31. 1720 Dom Marc Théaud
  32. 1723 Dom Maurice Béard
  33. 1726 Dom Martin Corneau
  34. 1729 Dom Jean Bigot
  35. 1733 Dom Maurice Béard
  36. 1736 Dom Louis Mollandin
  37. 1739 Dom Louis Mollandin
  38. 1742 Dom Hyacinthe Rolland
  39. 1745 Dom Pierre Tremoreau
  40. 1748 Dom Thomas Lohier
  41. 1751 Dom Pierre Hutru
  42. 1754 Dom Pierre Hutru
  43. 1757 Dom J. Bertin
  44. 1760 Dom Pierre Hutru
  45. 1763 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  46. 1766 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  47. 1769 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  48. 1772 Dom Georges Anne Heully
  49. 1775 Dom Mathurin Chauveau
  50. 1778 Dom Pierre Marie Hyppolite Canon
  51. 1781 Dom Michel Le Sire
  52. 1783 Dom Charles Monsallier
  53. 1788 Dom J. François René Perdoux

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 104-105 · Lecestre (1902), p. 14 · POP Mérimée PA00109495, Prieuré bénédictin Saint-Clément (ancien) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Magloire de Léhon
The house today. Photo: Rundvald, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Magloire de Léhon

Dinan (Côtes-d’Armor) · diocese of Saint-Malo · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628

Founded, according to Beaunier-Besse, by Nominoë for hermits who brought the relics of Saint Magloire there, Léhon became a priory of Marmoutier in 1181. At the beginning of the 17th century Dom Noël Mars launched there the reform of the Society of Brittany, which was united with the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1628. The monks left the priory in 1767. The restored church and the remains of the cloister survive.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1763
  1. 1630 Dom Benoît Laurent
  2. 1633 Dom Félix Pasquier
  3. 1636 Contin.
  4. 1639 Dom Dominique Huillard
  5. 1642 Dom Innocent Flahaut
  6. 1645 Dom Philibert Cotelle
  7. 1648 P. S. G.
  8. 1651 Dom Félix Pasquier
  9. 1654 Dom Rorice Gottereau
  10. 1657 Contin.
  11. 1660 Dom Guillaume de Rieux
  12. 1663 Contin.
  13. 1666 Dom Arsène Mancel
  14. 1669 Dom Guillaume de Rieux
  15. 1672 Contin.
  16. 1675 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  17. 1678 Dom Guillaume Bureau
  18. 1681 Dom Louis le Maignan
  19. 1684 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  20. 1687 Contin.
  21. 1690 Dom Etienne Badier (adm.)
  22. 1693 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  23. 1696 Dom Jean Blusson
  24. 1699 Contin.
  25. 1702 Dom André Le Maistre
  26. 1705 Contin.
  27. 1708 Dom Jean Goué (adm.)
  28. 1711 Dom Antoine des Bois
  29. 1714 Dom Gilles Didon
  30. 1717 Dom Léon Le Chevalier
  31. 1720 Dom Martin Corneau
  32. 1723 Dom Joseph Joly
  33. 1726 Dom François Barjon
  34. 1729 Contin.
  35. 1733 Dom Louis Philippe
  36. 1736 Contin.
  37. 1739 Dom René Anne Even
  38. 1742 Contin.
  39. 1745 Dom Joseph René Lefaucheux
  40. 1748 Dom René Bizien
  41. 1751 Dom Léonard Geffard
  42. 1754 Dom Etienne de Langle
  43. 1757 Dom Pierre Caillhava
  44. 1760 Dom Nicolas Jamin
  45. 1763 Dom Etienne de Langle

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 302-303 · Fouré-Macé, Le prieuré royal de Saint-Magloire de Lehon, Rennes, 1892, p. 108, 124-125, 393-401 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (Lehon-sur-Dinan) · POP/Mérimée PA00089303, Ruines de l’ancien prieuré royal de Saint-Magloire · Fouré-Macé, Le prieuré royal de Saint-Magloire de Lehon, Rennes, 1892, p. 124-125, 393-401 · InfoBretagne, L’abbaye Saint-Magloire de Léhon

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Évron
The house today. Photo: Feldbrahi, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Évron

Évron (Mayenne) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1640

Founded, according to Beaunier-Besse, by Bishop Hadouin around 630, the abbey of Notre-Dame d’Évron was restored at the end of the 10th century by monks of Saint-Père de Chartres. The monks asked for the reform as early as 1616; it was granted to them only in 1640. The abbey church is now the parish basilica of Notre-Dame-de-l’Épine; the conventual buildings became the convent of the Charité d’Évron.

The Maurist priors, 1642-1788
  1. 1642 Dom Jean Baptiste Moully
  2. 1645 Dom Bruno Vallès
  3. 1648 Dom Bruno Vallès
  4. 1651 Dom Philippe Cadeau
  5. 1654 Dom Philippe Cadeau
  6. 1657 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  7. 1660 Dom Pierre Destreley
  8. 1663 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  9. 1666 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  10. 1669 Dom Célestin Cotard
  11. 1672 Dom Célestin Cotard
  12. 1675 Dom Thomas Barbe
  13. 1678 Dom François Chevrier
  14. 1681 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  15. 1684 Dom Martin Drouin
  16. 1687 Dom Martin Drouin
  17. 1690 Dom Charles Turpin
  18. 1693 Dom Bernard Fernet
  19. 1696 Dom Bernard Fernet
  20. 1699 Dom Germain Cousin
  21. 1702 Dom Germain Cousin
  22. 1705 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  23. 1708 Dom Pierre Cosson
  24. 1711 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  25. 1714 Dom Joseph Castel
  26. 1717 Dom Olivier De Berüe
  27. 1720 Dom Claude Patron
  28. 1723 Dom Claude Patron
  29. 1726 Dom Gilles Lelièvre
  30. 1729 Dom Martin Corneau
  31. 1733 Dom Augustin Leroy
  32. 1736 Dom Augustin Leroy
  33. 1739 Dom D’Anthenaise Prosper
  34. 1742 Dom D’Anthenaise Prosper
  35. 1745 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  36. 1748 Dom René Busson
  37. 1754 Dom René Busson
  38. 1757 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  39. 1760 Dom Luc Pierre Jacques Dubois
  40. 1763 Dom Hilaire Rattery
  41. 1766 Dom Hilaire Rattery
  42. 1769 Dom François Renaudin
  43. 1772 Dom François Renaudin
  44. 1775 Dom François Renaudin
  45. 1778 Dom Alexandre Barbier
  46. 1781 Dom Alexandre Barbier
  47. 1783 Dom François Renaudin
  48. 1788 Dom Alexandre Barbier

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 150-151 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · POP/Mérimée PA00109505, Abbaye bénédictine Notre-Dame d’Évron devenue couvent de la Charité d’Évron

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil
The house today. Photo: Speculos, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil

Gennes-Val-de-Loire (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1668

Tradition links the foundation of Glanfeuil to Saint Maurus, disciple of Saint Benedict. The abbey was destroyed by the Normans, restored in the 11th century, then plundered during the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of Religion. The Congregation of Saint-Maur incorporated it in 1668 and rebuilt its buildings from 1680 to 1685. A community from Solesmes resumed monastic life there in 1890.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 Dom Pierre Dasquemie
  2. 1672 Dom Pierre Gonnier
  3. 1675 Dom Pierre Gonnier
  4. 1678 Dom Alexandre Thévin
  5. 1681 Dom Pierre Gonnier
  6. 1684 Dom Jean Baptiste Auverelle
  7. 1690 Dom Jean Baptiste Auverelle
  8. 1693 Dom Jean Baptiste Auverelle
  9. 1696 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  10. 1699 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  11. 1702 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  12. 1705 Dom Antoine Desbois
  13. 1708 Dom Antoine Desbois
  14. 1711 Dom Léon Lechevalier
  15. 1714 Dom Léon Lechevalier
  16. 1717 Dom Abraham Sonnet
  17. 1720 Dom Louis De La Touche
  18. 1723 Dom Pierre Allard
  19. 1726 Dom Léon Lechevalier
  20. 1729 Dom Joseph Le Sault
  21. 1733 Dom Léon Lechevalier
  22. 1736 Dom Léon Lechevalier
  23. 1739 Dom René Buisson
  24. 1742 Dom Pierre Allard
  25. 1745 Dom Thomas Lohier
  26. 1748 Dom Jean Pohon
  27. 1751 Dom Etienne De Langle
  28. 1754 Dom Julien De Bos
  29. 1757 Dom Jean Fresnel
  30. 1760 Dom Hilaire Rattery
  31. 1763 Dom Joseph Gaspern
  32. 1766 Dom Jean Legrand
  33. 1769 Dom Jean Legrand
  34. 1772 Dom Jean Legrand
  35. 1775 Dom Jean Legrand
  36. 1778 Dom René Marie
  37. 1781 Dom Christophe Augustin Flosceau
  38. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste François Bretel
  39. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste François Bretel

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse d’Angers, p. 89-90 · Biblissima, notice « Le Thoureil. Abbaye Saint-Maur » · POP/Mérimée PA00109372, Ancienne abbaye bénédictine Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil (classée 1958 et 1979, inscrite 1996) · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Present-day photograph: Abbaye de Blanche-Couronne
The house today. Photo: KaTeznik, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de Blanche-Couronne

La Chapelle-Launay (Loire-Atlantique) · diocese of Nantes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1667

Founded in the 12th century, the abbey of Blanche-Couronne was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1667 by its commendatory abbot, Claude Cornulier. The Maurists rebuilt the cloister and the monastic buildings in 1743. In 1767 the community merged with that of Pirmil. Sold as national property, the abbey retains its 12th-century church and its 18th-century buildings.

The Maurist priors, 1672-1763
  1. 1672 P. S. G.
  2. 1675 P. S. G.
  3. 1678 P. S. G.
  4. 1681 Dom René Roquette
  5. 1684 P. S. G.
  6. 1687 Dom Simon le Tort
  7. 1690 Contin.
  8. 1693 Dom Pierre Quillet
  9. 1696 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  10. 1699 Dom François Compain
  11. 1702 P. S. G.
  12. 1705 Dom Jean Heven
  13. 1708 Contin.
  14. 1711 Dom Gilles Drouet
  15. 1714 Dom Nicolas Lodin
  16. 1717 Dom Etienne Dufaure
  17. 1720 Dom Guy Nouail
  18. 1723 Contin.
  19. 1726 Dom Michel Legoux
  20. 1729 Dom Henri Marchand
  21. 1733 Dom Henri Lebrigand
  22. 1736 Dom Julien de Berüe
  23. 1739 Dom François Lohier
  24. 1742 Dom Michel Doriot
  25. 1745 Dom François Corbel
  26. 1748 Dom René Despinoze
  27. 1751 Contin.
  28. 1754 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  29. 1757 Dom Michel Lépinois
  30. 1760 Dom Joseph Dugast ?
  31. 1763 Dom Mathurin Lasnié

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 247 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · POP/Mérimée PA00108581, Ancienne abbaye de Blanche-Couronne · Estuarium, fiche lieu-ressource : abbaye de Blanche-Couronne · Compagnons de l’abbaye de Blanche-Couronne (association)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec
The house today. Photo: Moreau.henri, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Guénolé de Landévennec

Landévennec (Finistère) · diocese of Quimper · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628-1636

Founded, according to tradition, by Saint Guénolé, the abbey of Landévennec appears clearly in the documents only in the 11th century, as Beaunier-Besse observes. It passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur with the houses of the Society of Brittany, under the agreement ratified in 1628. The abbatial title was suppressed in 1781. The ruins of the church and of the monastic buildings survive; a Benedictine community settled nearby in 1958.

The Maurist priors, 1628-1788
  1. 1628 Dom Bernard Pichon
  2. 1630 Provid. D. Guill. Girard
  3. 1633 Provid. Visit. Britanniae
  4. 1636 Dom David Brossaud
  5. 1639 Dom Odilon Bataille
  6. 1642 Dom Eustache Raoult
  7. 1645 Dom Félix Pasquier
  8. 1648 Contin.
  9. 1651 Dom Jean Guyhard (adm.)
  10. 1654 Dom Jérôme Chantreuil
  11. 1657 Contin.
  12. 1660 Dom Robert Diée
  13. 1663 Dom René Roquet (adm.)
  14. 1666 Dom Robert Diée
  15. 1669 Contin.
  16. 1672 Dom Pierre Terrien
  17. 1675 Dom Michel Canart
  18. 1678 Dom Nicolas de St Denis
  19. 1681 Dom Vital Armand
  20. 1684 Dom Maur Audren (adm.)
  21. 1687 Dom Jean Bellan (adm.)
  22. 1690 Dom Julien Doite
  23. 1693 Dom Guillaume Hinaut
  24. 1696 Dom Pierre Cosson
  25. 1699 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  26. 1702 Dom Henri Le Louedec
  27. 1705 Dom René Béchereau
  28. 1708 Dom Corentin Joüan
  29. 1711 Dom Gilles de Saxe
  30. 1714 Dom André Le,maitre
  31. 1717 Dom Joseph Castel
  32. 1720 Dom Pierre Allard
  33. 1723 Dom Jean Garnier
  34. 1726 Dom Louis de la Tousche
  35. 1729 Dom Patrice Lebreton
  36. 1733 Dom Henri Morin
  37. 1736 Dom Yves Roumain
  38. 1739 Contin.
  39. 1742 Dom Jean Patron
  40. 1745 Contin.
  41. 1748 Dom François Ernault
  42. 1751 Contin.
  43. 1754 Dom Julien Guillotel
  44. 1757 Dom Etienne de Langle
  45. 1760 Dom Barthélémy Dugas
  46. 1763 Dom J. François Dupuy
  47. 1766 Dom Marc Ant. Guillon
  48. 1769 Dom J. Thomas Lamandé
  49. 1772 Dom René Jean Cruchon
  50. 1775 Dom Maur. Arnault Lapie
  51. 1778 Dom L. Pierre Julliot
  52. 1781 Dom Et. Pierre Barat
  53. 1783 Dom Jacques Maurice
  54. 1788 Dom Jean Julien Lecerf

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 270-271 · Fouré-Macé, Le prieuré royal de Saint-Magloire de Lehon, Rennes, 1892, p. 124-125 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · POP/Mérimée PA00090040, Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Guénolé · Monumentum, notice PA00090040 · Musée de l’ancienne abbaye de Landévennec · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de la Couture
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de la Couture
The house today. Photo: Le Mans (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de la Couture

Le Mans (Sarthe) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1657-1658

The abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture was restored at the beginning of the 10th century by Abbot Gauzbert, with the help of the counts of Maine. The reform of Saint-Maur was introduced there in 1657; the former monks contested it, and a decree of the Parlement of February 1661 reinstated the Maurists in the abbey. The church has become a parish church under the dedication of Notre-Dame; the 18th-century conventual buildings house the prefecture of the Sarthe.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  2. 1663 Dom Placide Chassinat
  3. 1666 Dom Placide Chassinat
  4. 1669 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  5. 1672 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  6. 1675 Dom Placide Chassinat
  7. 1678 Dom Placide Chassinat
  8. 1681 Dom Louis Trochon
  9. 1684 Dom Charles Hérissé
  10. 1687 Dom François Duvivier
  11. 1690 Dom Placide Chassinat
  12. 1693 Dom Louis Trochon
  13. 1696 Dom Louis Trochon
  14. 1699 Dom Maur Audran
  15. 1702 Dom Maur Audran
  16. 1705 Dom Henri Fermelys
  17. 1708 Dom Joseph Miniac
  18. 1711 Dom Hervé Ménard
  19. 1714 Dom Jean Fourquemin
  20. 1717 Dom Jean Fourquemin
  21. 1720 Dom François De Grandseigne
  22. 1723 Dom Gilles Didon
  23. 1726 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  24. 1729 Dom Jacques Nicolas Maumousseau
  25. 1733 Dom Joseph Legault
  26. 1736 Dom Jacques Grassin
  27. 1739 Dom Jacques Grassin
  28. 1742 Dom Jean Guillaume Taillard
  29. 1745 Dom Léonard Geffard
  30. 1748 Dom Léonard Geffard
  31. 1751 Dom Hyacinthe Briancourt
  32. 1754 Dom Yves Roumain
  33. 1757 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  34. 1763 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  35. 1766 Dom P. Jacques De La Bezardais
  36. 1769 Dom P. Jacques De La Bezardais
  37. 1772 Dom P. Jacques De La Bezardais
  38. 1775 Dom Philippe Lebel
  39. 1778 Dom Philippe Lebel
  40. 1781 Dom P. Jacques De La Bezardais
  41. 1783 Dom Pierre Jacques Prudhomme
  42. 1788 Dom Jean Jacques Flosceau

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 145-146 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. le Mans, la Couture · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00109798, Abbaye de la Couture (ancienne) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Vincent du Mans
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Vincent du Mans
The house today. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Vincent du Mans

Le Mans (Sarthe) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

Founded, according to Beaunier-Besse, by Bishop Saint Domnole in the 6th century, the abbey of Saint-Vincent received the observances of Chezal-Benoît in 1502. It was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1636; its abbots remained regular abbots with three-year terms until 1763. The major seminary later moved within its walls. The Maurist buildings now house the Lycée Bellevue.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1636 Dom Ignace Philibert
  2. 1639 Dom Bède de Fiesque
  3. 1642 Contin.
  4. 1645 Dom Ignace Philibert
  5. 1648 Contin.
  6. 1651 Dom Jean Bapt. Godèfroy
  7. 1654 Contin.
  8. 1657 Dom Placide Chassinat
  9. 1660 Contin.
  10. 1663 Dom Anselme des Rousseaux
  11. 1666 Dom François Ohévrier
  12. 1669 Dom Placide Chassinat
  13. 1672 Contin.
  14. 1675 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  15. 1678 Contin.
  16. 1681 Dom Placide Chassinat
  17. 1684 Contin.
  18. 1687 Dom Louis Trochon
  19. 1690 Contin.
  20. 1693 Dom Maur Audren
  21. 1696 Contin.
  22. 1699 Dom Henri Fermelis
  23. 1702 Contin.
  24. 1705 Dom Maur Audrun
  25. 1708 Contin.
  26. 1711 Dom Charles d’Isard
  27. 1714 Dom François Redon
  28. 1717 Dom Maur Audren
  29. 1720 Dom Jean Bapt. Guyon
  30. 1723 Dom François Le Texier
  31. 1726 Contin.
  32. 1729 Dom Jean François Murault
  33. 1733 Dom Jacques Nicolas Maumousseau
  34. 1736 Contin.
  35. 1739 Dom Jean Delaunay
  36. 1742 Dom Jean Nicolas Chrestien
  37. 1745 Dom Hyacinthe Briancourt
  38. 1748 Contin.
  39. 1751 Dom Pierre Martin
  40. 1754 Contin.
  41. 1757 Dom Philippe Lebel
  42. 1760 Dom René Anne Even
  43. 1763 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  44. 1766 Dom Ambroise Augustin Chevreux
  45. 1769 Contin.
  46. 1772 Dom Edmond Jean Bapt. Peret
  47. 1775 Dom Pierre Philippe Bourdon
  48. 1778 Dom Pierre Jehors
  49. 1781 Contin.
  50. 1783 Dom Jean Bapt. Giron
  51. 1788 Dom Pierre Jehors

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VIII, Province ecclésiastique de Tours (Archives de la France monastique XIX), 1920, p. 147-150 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 15 (Bénédictins de Saint-Maur, province de Bretagne) · POP/Mérimée PA00109799, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Vincent, actuellement lycée Bellevue · André Lévy (dir.), Redécouvrir l’abbaye Saint-Vincent du Mans, Le Mans, Éditions de la Reinette, 1990, 155 p. · André-René Le Paige, Dictionnaire topographique, historique, généalogique et bibliographique de la province et du diocèse du Maine, Le Mans, Toutain ; Paris, Saugrain, 1777, 2 vol. · André Lévy et Thierry Barbeau, L’autre temps des abbayes, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles : Saint-Vincent du Mans et les abbayes bénédictines de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, Mulsanne, ITF (Bibliotheca Vincentiana), 2012, 97 p. · André Lévy (dir.), Trésors de l’abbaye royale Saint-Vincent du Mans (actes du colloque du Mans, 4 avril 2014), Mulsanne, ITF (Bibliotheca Vincentiana), 2015, 98 p. · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
The house today. Photo: Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel

Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche) · diocese of Avranches · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1622

Founded by Duke Richard I according to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, in the diocese of Avranches, passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur by a concordat concluded with the abbot on 11 October 1622; the first reformed monks arrived there on the following 27 October, as Dom Jean Huynes relates. The abbey also remained a citadel and a state prison. It now belongs to the State.

The Maurist priors, 1623-1788
  1. 1623 Dom Charles de Maleville
  2. 1624 Dom Placide de Sarcus
  3. 1625 Contin.
  4. 1626 Contin.
  5. 1627 Contin.
  6. 1628 Dom Bède de Fiesque
  7. 1630 Contin.
  8. 1633 Dom Michel Pirou
  9. 1636 Dom Bernard Jevardac
  10. 1639 Contin.
  11. 1642 Dom Dominique Huillard
  12. 1645 Contin.
  13. 1648 Dom Charles R teau
  14. 1651 Dom Dominique Huillard
  15. 1654 Dom Placide Chassinat
  16. 1657 Dom Augustin Moynet
  17. 1660 Contin.
  18. 1663 Dom Arsène Mancel
  19. 1666 Dom Mayeul Hazon
  20. 1669 Contin.
  21. 1672 Dom Pierre Chérot
  22. 1675 Dom Laurent Hunault
  23. 1678 Dom Michel Briand
  24. 1681 Dom Guillaume de Rieux
  25. 1684 Dom Pierre Terrien
  26. 1687 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  27. 1690 Dom Henri Fermelys
  28. 1693 Dom Antoine Fournel
  29. 1696 Dom Jean Lorier
  30. 1699 Dom Joseph Miniac
  31. 1702 Dom Julien Doyte
  32. 1705 Contin.
  33. 1708 Dom Magloire Loz
  34. 1711 Dom André Le Maistre
  35. 1714 Dom Joseph Miniac
  36. 1717 Dom Benoît Petit
  37. 1720 Dom Joseph Castel
  38. 1723 Dom Denis Benoistmont
  39. 1726 Dom Guillaume Roumain
  40. 1729 Dom Léon Chevalier
  41. 1733 Dom Noël Le Goux
  42. 1736 Contin.
  43. 1739 Dom Pierre Martin
  44. 1742 Dom Hyacinthe Nicolas de Briancourt
  45. 1745 Dom Philippe Lebel
  46. 1748 Contin.
  47. 1751 Dom René Bizien
  48. 1754 Dom Jean Fresnel
  49. 1757 Dom A. Joseph Surineau
  50. 1760 Contin.
  51. 1763 Dom François Louasson (adm.)
  52. 1766 Dom Aimé Joseph Surineau
  53. 1769 Contin.
  54. 1772 Dom Charles de la Passaig
  55. 1775 Contin.
  56. 1778 Dom Louis Mathurin Gautron
  57. 1781 Contin.
  58. 1783 Dom François Maurice
  59. 1788 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesHuynes, Histoire générale de l’abbaye du Mont-St-Michel au péril de la mer, éd. E. de Robillard de Beaurepaire, t. II, Rouen, 1873, p. 197-207 et 222-230 · Beaunier-Besse, t. VII, Province ecclésiastique de Rouen (Archives de la France monastique XVII), p. 98-101 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 (province de Bretagne, diocèse d’Avranches, 7 religieux) · POP/Mérimée PA00110460, Abbaye et dépendances · Dom Jean Huynes, Histoire générale de l’abbaye du Mont-St-Michel au péril de la mer, éd. E. de Robillard de Beaurepaire, t. II, Rouen, Société de l’histoire de Normandie, 1873, p. 202-230 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Tronchet
The house today. Photo: GO69, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame du Tronchet

Le Tronchet (Ille-et-Vilaine) · diocese of Dol · Congregation of Saint-Maur: c. 1628

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey grew out of a community gathered by the hermit Gaultier in the first half of the 12th century, which was placed under Tiron and raised to an abbey before 1170. In 1607 it entered the Society of Brittany, which was united with Saint-Maur in 1628. In the 17th century the Maurists rebuilt the monastery on a healthier site. The church is now a parish church, and the cloister survives.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1628 Dom Maurice Poncignon
  2. 1633 Dom David Brossaud
  3. 1639 Dom Eloi Denis
  4. 1675 Dom Guillaume De Rieux
  5. 1678 Dom Guillaume De Rieux
  6. 1681 Dom Urbain Cerclé
  7. 1684 Dom Benoît Piron
  8. 1687 Dom Thomas Barbe
  9. 1690 Dom Thomas Barbe
  10. 1693 Dom Pierre Cosson
  11. 1696 Dom Jacques Vincent
  12. 1699 Dom Jacques Vincent
  13. 1702 Dom Guillaume Hinault
  14. 1705 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  15. 1708 Dom Jacques Chapelier
  16. 1711 Dom Jacques Goupil
  17. 1714 Dom Jacques Goupil
  18. 1717 Dom Jacques Charles Le Boucher
  19. 1720 Dom Jean François Murault
  20. 1723 Dom René Clémenceau
  21. 1726 Dom Joseph Fournier
  22. 1729 Dom Julien Ruault
  23. 1733 Dom René Anne Even
  24. 1736 Dom Henri Morin
  25. 1739 Dom Jean Baptiste Chevy
  26. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Boucher
  27. 1745 Dom Guillaume Lescoazet
  28. 1748 Dom René Breton
  29. 1751 Dom René Breton
  30. 1754 Dom Aug. Marie Cassan
  31. 1757 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  32. 1760 Dom Mathieu Lépinois
  33. 1763 Dom Mathieu Lépinois
  34. 1781 Dom Louis Durand
  35. 1783 Dom Jacques François Marie
  36. 1788 Dom Charles Pierre Gouallic

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Dol, p. 279-280 · M. Sepet, Saint-Gildas de Ruis, 1900 (citation de Dom Tassin sur l’union de la Société de Bretagne à Saint-Maur en 1628) · POP/Mérimée PA00090892, Restes de l’ancienne abbaye (classés 26/07/1933)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Chaume
The house today. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Chaume

Machecoul-Saint-Même (Loire-Atlantique) · diocese of Nantes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628-1630

The abbey of Notre-Dame de La Chaume, near Machecoul, grew out of a priory founded in 1055 for the abbey of Redon by Harscoët, lord of Retz, according to Beaunier-Besse. The Society of Brittany introduced its reform there in 1618; the house then passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur, in 1630 according to Beaunier-Besse. In 1767 its monks were transferred to Vertou. Only ruins remain.

The Maurist priors, 1628-1763
  1. 1628 Dom Robert Goupil
  2. 1630 Dom Guillaume Girard
  3. 1639 Dom Robert Godebis
  4. 1642 Dom Robert Goupil
  5. 1645 Dom Robert Goupil
  6. 1648 Dom Innocent Flahaut
  7. 1651 Dom Grégoire Legrand
  8. 1654 Dom Grégoire Legrand
  9. 1657 Dom Hugues Couléon
  10. 1660 Dom Colomban Le Fay
  11. 1663 Dom Fursy Clément
  12. 1666 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  13. 1669 Dom Jean Hermier
  14. 1672 Dom François Maury
  15. 1675 Dom Mathurin Joseph Fouqué
  16. 1678 Dom François Ronsin
  17. 1681 Dom François Ronsin
  18. 1684 Dom Barthél. Le Sénéchal
  19. 1687 Dom Barthél. Le Sénéchal
  20. 1690 Dom Pierre Quillet
  21. 1693 Dom Daniel Billouet
  22. 1696 Dom Daniel Billouet
  23. 1699 Dom René Cabaret
  24. 1702 Dom René Cabaret
  25. 1705 Dom Charles Haudebert
  26. 1708 Dom Abraham Sonnet
  27. 1711 Dom Nicolas Lodin
  28. 1714 Dom Antoine Des Bois
  29. 1717 Dom Guy Nouail
  30. 1720 Dom Louis Jacques
  31. 1723 Dom Louis Jacques
  32. 1726 Dom Maurice Bérard
  33. 1729 Dom Augustin Leroy
  34. 1733 Dom Mathurin Bénard
  35. 1736 Dom René Busson
  36. 1739 Dom Claude Morin
  37. 1742 Dom Guillaume Rouault
  38. 1745 Dom Jean François Ernault
  39. 1748 Dom Jacques Robillard
  40. 1751 Dom Jacques Robillard
  41. 1754 Dom René Lebreton
  42. 1757 Dom Georges Anne Heuly
  43. 1760 Dom François Cabaret
  44. 1763 Dom René Jean Heully

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBesse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, I (Introduction), AFM IV, 1906, p. 93 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 15 · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, t. VIII (province de Tours), AFM 19, 1920, p. 247-248, 250-251 · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. I (1618; union de la Société de Bretagne, p. 252-253) · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, éd. Charvin, t. IV, note de l’éditeur sur Vertou (transfert des moines de La Chaume en 1767)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (Saint-Florent du Mont-Glonne)
The house today. Photo: Gllawm, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (Saint-Florent du Mont-Glonne)

Mauges-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1639

The monastery of Mont-Glonne, near the tomb of Saint Florent, was burned around 849 and then plundered by the Normans. The community later re-formed near Saumur, and Saint-Florent-le-Vieil became a dependency of Saint-Florent de Saumur. The Maurists entered it in 1639 according to Cottineau and rebuilt the whole monastery. After the Revolution the whole site was divided into three properties; the abbey church is listed as a historic monument.

The Maurist priors, 1639-1788
  1. 1639 P.R.P.G
  2. 1642 Dom Bernard Sicault
  3. 1645 P.R.P.G
  4. 1648 P.R.P.G
  5. 1651 Dom Robert Jamet
  6. 1654 Dom Dominique Huillard
  7. 1657 Dom Colomban Pillon
  8. 1660 Contin.
  9. 1663 Dom Jérôme Chantreuil
  10. 1666 Dom Guillaume Besnard
  11. 1669 Dom Mathurin Joseph Fouqué
  12. 1672 Contin.
  13. 1675 Dom Boniface Le Tam
  14. 1678 Dom Claude Cernay
  15. 1681 Dom François Mauri
  16. 1684 Dom Guillaume de Rieux
  17. 1687 Contin.
  18. 1690 Dom Laurent Hunault
  19. 1693 Contin.
  20. 1696 Dom Antoine Fournel
  21. 1699 Contin.
  22. 1702 Dom Martin Drouin
  23. 1705 Contin.
  24. 1708 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  25. 1711 Dom Claude Patron
  26. 1714 Dom René Bechereau
  27. 1717 Dom Claude Patron
  28. 1720 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  29. 1723 Contin.
  30. 1726 Dom Yves le Fresne (adm.)
  31. 1729 Dom Placide Ernault
  32. 1733 Dom Anselme Amiraud
  33. 1736 Dom Guillaume Roumain
  34. 1739 Contin.
  35. 1742 P. S. G.
  36. 1745 Dom Théodore Bannière
  37. 1748 Dom Pierre Caillhava
  38. 1751 Contin.
  39. 1754 Dom Mathurin Peigné
  40. 1757 Contin.
  41. 1760 Dom Pierre Prigent Jehors (adm.)
  42. 1763 Dom Barthélémy Dugast
  43. 1766 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  44. 1769 Dom Barthélémy Dugast
  45. 1772 Contin.
  46. 1775 Contin.
  47. 1778 Dom Pierre Pascal Joubert
  48. 1781 Contin.
  49. 1783 Dom Barthélémy Dugast
  50. 1788 Dom Sebastien Dugast

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 103 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. St-Florent-le-Vieil · Lecestre (1902), p. 14 · POP Mérimée PA00109258, Ancienne abbaye

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Montreuil-Bellay (prieuré des Nobis)
The house today. Photo: GO69, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Montreuil-Bellay (prieuré des Nobis)

Montreuil-Bellay (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1672-1675

The priory of Saint-Pierre, known as the Nobis priory, depended on the abbey of Saint-Nicolas d’Angers, which had received the church in the 11th century. It passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in the last third of the 17th century, and the Maurists entirely rebuilt the monastery at the beginning of the 18th century. A decree of the King’s Council of 1767 concerned the suppression of its conventual life. Abandoned at the Revolution, the church is now no more than a ruin; the site belongs to the municipality.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1690 Dom Guillaume Hénault
  2. 1693 Dom Jean Bellan
  3. 1696 Contin.
  4. 1699 P. S. G.
  5. 1702 Dom Jean Bellan
  6. 1705 Contin.
  7. 1708 Dom Jean Molandin
  8. 1711 Dom Pierre Croneau
  9. 1714 Contin.
  10. 1717 P. S. G.
  11. 1720 Dom Pierre Croneau
  12. 1723 Dom Jean Molandin
  13. 1726 Contin.
  14. 1729 P. S. G.
  15. 1733 Dom Jean Molandin
  16. 1736 Contin.
  17. 1739 P. S. G.
  18. 1742 Dom Jean Molandin
  19. 1745 Contin.
  20. 1748 P. S. G.
  21. 1751 Dom Jean Molandin
  22. 1754 Dom Joseph Bryon
  23. 1757 Contin.
  24. 1760 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  25. 1763 Dom Charles Antoine Marie
  26. 1766 –
  27. 1772 –
  28. 1775 P. S. G.
  29. 1778 P. S. G.
  30. 1781 Dom Jacques Maur Roux
  31. 1783 Contin.
  32. 1788 Dom Pierre Louis Ferrand

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, III (Bordeaux), AFM X, p. 268 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 (liste de la province de Bretagne) et p. 116 (arrêt du Conseil d’État du 3 avril 1767 sur la suppression de la conventualité) · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II (1939), art. Montreuil-Bellay · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00109208, Prieuré des Nobis (ancien)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Jacques de Pirmil
The house today. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Jacques de Pirmil

Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) · diocese of Nantes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1653

The priory of Saint-Jacques at Pirmil, south of the Loire opposite Nantes, depended on the abbey of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes. The monks of Saint-Maur settled there in 1653, according to Martène, and the community of Blanche-Couronne joined theirs in 1767. The church was sold as national property in 1791 and became a parish church. The 18th-century conventual buildings today belong to the hospital of Nantes.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1699 Dom Gilles Drouet
  2. 1702 Dom Gilles Drouet
  3. 1708 Dom Gilles Drouet
  4. 1711 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  5. 1714 Dom Gatien Mautrot
  6. 1717 Dom Jean Garnier
  7. 1720 Dom Joseph Théaud
  8. 1723 Dom Joseph Théaud
  9. 1729 Dom Benoît Taudeau
  10. 1733 Dom Julien Cochet
  11. 1736 Dom Martin Corneau
  12. 1739 Dom Antoine Lalloué
  13. 1742 Dom Julien Cochet
  14. 1745 Dom René Anne Even
  15. 1748 Dom Pierre Hutru
  16. 1751 Dom Augustin Legault
  17. 1754 Dom Augustin Legault
  18. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Giron
  19. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Giron
  20. 1766 Dom Jean Baptiste Giron
  21. 1769 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  22. 1772 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  23. 1775 Dom Pierre Marie Hyppolite Canon
  24. 1778 Dom Guy René Jean Heully
  25. 1781 Dom Guy René Jean Heully
  26. 1783 Dom J. Marie Nicolas Baron
  27. 1788 Dom Sébastien Bonnard

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBesse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, I (Introduction), AFM IV, 1906, p. 93 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 15 · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, t. VIII (province de Tours), AFM 19, 1920, p. 247, 250 · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. III, p. 247 (1653) · POP Mérimée PA44000011, église Saint-Jacques de Pirmil · POP Mérimée PA44000012, hôpital Saint-Jacques de Pirmil

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Noyers
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Noyers

Nouâtre (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1658

The abbey of Notre-Dame de Noyers, on the banks of the Vienne, was founded around 1030 by a knight named Hubert, according to Beaunier-Besse. Sacked during the Wars of Religion, it passed to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1658 according to Cottineau. The conventual buildings were rebuilt around 1760. The abbey was suppressed in 1791 and the church disappeared; the gateway bearing the arms of France and one wing of the monastery survive.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 P. S. G.
  2. 1663 Dom Fabien Guy (
  3. 1666 Dom Fursy Clément
  4. 1669 Dom Etienne Demonts
  5. 1672 Contin.
  6. 1675 Dom André Billot
  7. 1678 Contin.
  8. 1681 Dom Louis Hinault
  9. 1684 Dom André Billot
  10. 1687 Dom Pierre Cosson
  11. 1690 Contin.
  12. 1693 Dom René de Goustiménil
  13. 1696 Contin.
  14. 1699 Dom François Maury
  15. 1702 Dom Benoît Even
  16. 1705 Dom Charles Quillet (adm.)
  17. 1708 Dom François Saulnier (adm.)
  18. 1711 Dom Jean Baptiste Gobert (adm.)
  19. 1714 Dom Louis de la Touche
  20. 1717 Dom René Jeudry (adm.)
  21. 1720 Contin.
  22. 1723 Dom René Jean Le Pape
  23. 1726 Contin.
  24. 1729 Dom Maurice Béard
  25. 1733 Dom René Jean Le Pape
  26. 1736 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  27. 1739 Dom Jean Marc Foussard
  28. 1742 Contin.
  29. 1745 Dom René de Bizien
  30. 1748 Dom Jean Fresnel
  31. 1751 Contin.
  32. 1754 Dom Jean François Ernault
  33. 1757 Contin.
  34. 1760 Dom Jean Fresnel
  35. 1763 Contin.
  36. 1766 Contin.
  37. 1769 Dom Guy René Heully
  38. 1772 Dom Pierre Jacques Prudhomme (
  39. 1775 Dom Ambroise Augustin Chevreux
  40. 1778 Dom Gilbert Jules Caffieri
  41. 1781 Contin.
  42. 1783 Dom Charles Pierre Gouallic
  43. 1788 Dom Pierre François Cotelle

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 33 · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II (1939), art. Noyers · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00097899, Ancienne abbaye de Noyers · Bernard Danquigny, Noyers, Nouâtre et autres lieux de Touraine (histoire de l’abbaye Notre-Dame de Noyers, 1030-1791) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lantenac

Plémet (Côtes-d’Armor) · diocese of Saint-Brieuc · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1638

The abbey of Notre-Dame de Lantenac was founded in the 12th century by Eudes de Porhoët, according to Beaunier-Besse. Ruined during the Wars of Religion, it was restored by the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which received it in 1638. Only ruins remain.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1639 Dom Aubin De Saint-Pair
  2. 1642 Dom Aubin De Saint-Pair
  3. 1645 Dom Aubin De Saint-Pair
  4. 1648 Dom Aubin De Saint-Pair
  5. 1651 Dom Aubin De Saint-Pair
  6. 1663 Dom Ildefonse Claire
  7. 1666 Dom Ildefonse Claire
  8. 1669 Dom Augustin Du Bois
  9. 1672 Dom Augustin Du Bois
  10. 1675 Dom François Mauri
  11. 1678 Dom François Mauri
  12. 1681 Dom François Alexandre Thévin
  13. 1684 Dom François Alexandre Thévin
  14. 1687 Dom Joseph Gouin
  15. 1690 Dom André Billot
  16. 1693 Dom Jacques Vincent
  17. 1696 Dom Louis Hinault
  18. 1699 Dom Guillaume Hinault
  19. 1702 Dom Charles Haudebert
  20. 1705 Dom Pierre Merceron
  21. 1708 Dom Etienne Du Faure
  22. 1711 Dom Martin Corneau
  23. 1714 Dom Jean Molandin
  24. 1717 Dom René Clémenceau
  25. 1723 Dom Pierre Le Lièvre
  26. 1726 Dom Pierre Merceron
  27. 1729 Dom Pierre Depeu
  28. 1733 Dom Julien De Berüe
  29. 1736 Dom Yves Bourgonnière
  30. 1739 Dom Yves Bourgonnière
  31. 1745 Dom Philippe Languier
  32. 1751 Dom Philippe Languier
  33. 1754 Dom Philippe Languier
  34. 1757 Dom Philippe Languier
  35. 1760 Dom Philippe Languier
  36. 1763 Dom Philippe Languier
  37. 1781 Dom Pierre Nicol
  38. 1783 Dom François Remont
  39. 1788 Dom Etienne Pierre Barat

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 283 · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 (Lantenac, comm. La Ferrière) · Thesauri Unicaen, notice « La Ferrière » (Côtes-d’Armor)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre
The house today. Photo: Gzen92, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre

Plougonvelin (Finistère) · diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1655-1657

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey took its name from the relics of the apostle Saint Matthew brought from the East. Hervé, Viscount of Léon, endowed it in 1157. Exposed at the tip of the Léon, it suffered raids by English sailors in 1374 and in 1558. It was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1655. Sold as national property, it was demolished except for the church, whose ruins remain.

The Maurist priors, 1657-1788
  1. 1657 Dom Robert Diée
  2. 1660 Dom Jérôme Chantreuil
  3. 1663 Dom Hilaire Pellier
  4. 1666 Dom Jérôme Chantreuil
  5. 1669 Dom Germain Cousin (adm)
  6. 1672 Dom Jacques Jollys
  7. 1675 Contin.
  8. 1678 P. S. G.
  9. 1681 Dom Agustin des Bois
  10. 1684 Contin.
  11. 1687 Dom François. Foyer (adm.)
  12. 1690 Dom Jean Bapt. Hardouineau
  13. 1693 Contin.
  14. 1696 Dom Honorat Ernaud
  15. 1699 Dom Henri Le Louédec (adm.)
  16. 1702 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  17. 1705 Dom Henri Le Louédec.’
  18. 1708 Contin.
  19. 1711 P. S. G.
  20. 1714 Dom Bernard Fernet
  21. 1717 Contin.
  22. 1720 Dom Jean Garnier
  23. 1723 Dom Michel Le Goux
  24. 1726 Dom Guy Nouail
  25. 1729 Dom Claude Le Vacher (adm,)
  26. 1732 Dom Julien de la Boissière
  27. 1736 Dom Thomas de Lohier
  28. 1739 Dom Nicolas Adam
  29. 1742 Contin.
  30. 1745 Dom Jean Bapt. Charil
  31. 1748 Dom Nicolas Adam
  32. 1751 Contin.
  33. 1754 Dom François René Pillot
  34. 1757 Dom Joseph Rechigné
  35. 1760 Dom Mathurin Peigné
  36. 1763 Dom Jean François Bureau (adm.)
  37. 1766 Dom Jean Bapt. Chambellan
  38. 1769 Dom René Millon
  39. 1772 Dom Maurice Arnault La Pie
  40. 1775 Dom Raoul Noël Lamandé
  41. 1778 Contin.
  42. 1781 Dom Noël Anne-Marie Prévost
  43. 1783 Contin.
  44. 1788 Dom René François Malicot

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 290-291 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. St-Mathieu-de-Fine-Terre · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00090242, Ruines de l’abbaye Saint-Mathieu · Fanny Tournier et Vincenzo Mutarelli, « Un bâtiment mauriste (XVIIe siècle) retrouvé à l’abbaye de Saint-Mathieu (Finistère) », Revue archéologique de l’Ouest, t. 23, 2006, p. 71-86 · InfoBretagne, Abbaye ou monastère Saint-Mathieu de Plougonvelin · Association des Amis de Saint-Mathieu (site officiel de l’association et du musée) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé
The house today. Photo: Schorle, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé

Quimperlé (Finistère) · diocese of Quimper · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1665

The abbey of Sainte-Croix was founded in the 11th century, in 1029 according to Beaunier-Besse, by Alain Canhiart, Count of Cornouaille. The Congregation of Saint-Maur received it in 1665. The Romanesque rotunda of its church, which collapsed in 1862, was rebuilt on the old plan. The church is now a parish church; the conventual buildings were assigned to public services of the town.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Mathurin Joseph Fouqué (adm.)
  2. 1669 Dom Pierre Terrien (adm.)
  3. 1672 Dom Nicolas de Saint-Denis (adm.)
  4. 1675 Dom Germain Cousin
  5. 1678 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  6. 1681 Contin.
  7. 1684 Dom Léonard Chastel
  8. 1687 Dom François Maury
  9. 1690 Contin.
  10. 1693 Dom Julien Doite
  11. 1696 Contin.
  12. 1699 P. S. G.
  13. 1702 Dom Jean Baptiste Hardouineau
  14. 1705 Contin.
  15. 1708 Dom Mathieu Monnier (adm.)
  16. 1711 Dom Olivier de Berüe
  17. 1714 Contin.
  18. 1717 Dom Pierre Allard (adm.)
  19. 1720 Dom Jean Gaubert
  20. 1723 Dom Louis de la Touche
  21. 1726 Dom René de Thierry
  22. 1729 Contin.
  23. 1733 Dom Jean François Ernault
  24. 1736 Contin.
  25. 1739 Contin.
  26. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Charil
  27. 1745 Dom Michel Doriot
  28. 1748 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy de Villeblanche
  29. 1751 Contin.
  30. 1754 Dom René de Bizien
  31. 1757 Contin.
  32. 1760 P. S. G.
  33. 1763 Dom René de Bizien
  34. 1766 Contin.
  35. 1769 Dom Guill. Henri Heully
  36. 1772 Contin.
  37. 1775 Dom René de Bizien
  38. 1778 Dom J. Marie Nicolas Baron
  39. 1781 Dom René Broutin
  40. 1783 Dom Luc Charles Brulon
  41. 1788 Dom Jean François Dureau

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 271-273 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. Quimperlé · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00090381, Église Sainte-Croix · L’abbaye Sainte-Croix de Quimperlé, des origines à la Révolution. Actes du colloque de Quimperlé, 2-3 octobre 1998, Brest, Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique, 1999, 257 p. (ISBN 2-901737-41-2)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Redon
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Redon
The house today. Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Redon

Redon (Ille-et-Vilaine) · diocese of Vannes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1628

The abbey of Saint-Sauveur was founded in the 9th century by Saint Convoion. The reform of Saint-Maur was introduced there in 1628; Richelieu was then its commendatory abbot, and the monastery was rebuilt around the cloister between 1641 and 1649. The abbey church is now a parish church. Since 1839 the conventual buildings have housed a school, today the Lycée Saint-Sauveur.

The Maurist priors, 1628-1788
  1. 1628 Dom Thomas Baudry
  2. 1630 Dom Michel Pirou
  3. 1633 Dom Anselme Des Rousseaux
  4. 1636 Dom Romain Le Gault
  5. 1639 Dom Arsène Moriceau
  6. 1642 Dom Benoît Beaurepaire
  7. 1645 Dom Fabien Buteux
  8. 1648 Dom Dominique Huillard
  9. 1651 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  10. 1654 Dom Colomban Pillon
  11. 1657 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  12. 1660 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  13. 1663 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  14. 1666 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  15. 1669 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  16. 1672 Dom Germain Cousin
  17. 1675 Dom Gérard Pinet
  18. 1678 Dom Gérard Pinet
  19. 1681 Dom Laurent Hunault
  20. 1684 Dom Pierre Danet
  21. 1687 Dom Maur Audran
  22. 1690 Dom Maur Audran
  23. 1693 Dom Henri Fermelys
  24. 1696 Dom Henri Fermelys
  25. 1699 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  26. 1702 Dom Antoine Fournel
  27. 1705 Dom Magloire Loz
  28. 1708 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  29. 1711 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  30. 1714 Dom François Diveu
  31. 1717 Dom François Diveu
  32. 1720 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  33. 1723 Dom Guillaume Roumain
  34. 1726 Dom François Diveu
  35. 1729 Dom Claude Patron
  36. 1733 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  37. 1736 Dom Anselme Amiraud
  38. 1739 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  39. 1742 Dom Pierre Massin
  40. 1745 Dom Jean Guillaume Taillard
  41. 1748 Dom Jean Guillaume Taillard
  42. 1751 Dom Philippe Lebel
  43. 1754 Dom Philippe Lebel
  44. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  45. 1760 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  46. 1763 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  47. 1766 Dom Pierre Nicole
  48. 1769 Dom Pierre Nicole
  49. 1772 Dom Pierre Nicole
  50. 1775 Dom Pierre Nicole
  51. 1778 Dom François De Sageon
  52. 1781 Dom François De Sageon
  53. 1783 Dom Pierre François Cotelle
  54. 1788 Dom Pierre Jean Lebreton

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 323-325 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. Redon, St-Sauveur · Lecestre (1902), p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00090664, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Sauveur · POP Mérimée PA00090666, Église Saint-Sauveur · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Melaine de Rennes
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Melaine de Rennes
The house today. Photo: Morio60, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Melaine de Rennes

Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) · diocese of Rennes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1627

The monastery arose near the tomb of Saint Melaine, bishop of Rennes; according to Beaunier-Besse, it was plundered by the Normans and then restored in the 11th century. It was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1627. Eleven monks left it in 1790. The church is now a parish church under the name of Notre-Dame-en-Saint-Melaine, and one gallery of the Maurist cloister survives.

The Maurist priors, 1633-1788
  1. 1633 Dom Placide De Sarcus
  2. 1636 Dom Mathieu Jouault
  3. 1639 Dom Mathieu Jouault
  4. 1642 Dom Germain Morel
  5. 1645 Dom Germain Morel
  6. 1648 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  7. 1651 Dom Joachim Le Coratat
  8. 1654 Dom Albert Marchand
  9. 1657 Dom Martial Des Forges
  10. 1660 Dom Philippe Le Roy
  11. 1663 Dom Philippe Le Roy
  12. 1666 Dom Joseph Bouret
  13. 1669 Dom Julien Raguideau
  14. 1672 Dom Julien Raguideau
  15. 1675 Dom Victor Tixier
  16. 1678 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  17. 1681 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  18. 1684 Dom Henri Fermelys
  19. 1687 Dom Henri Fermelys
  20. 1690 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  21. 1693 Dom Jean Lorier
  22. 1696 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  23. 1699 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  24. 1702 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  25. 1705 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  26. 1708 Dom Joseph Hyacinthe Coutard
  27. 1711 Dom Joseph Hyacinthe Coutard
  28. 1714 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  29. 1717 Dom Aubin Jumeau
  30. 1720 Dom François Diveu
  31. 1723 Dom François Diveu
  32. 1726 Dom Hervé Ménard
  33. 1729 Dom Joseph Castel
  34. 1733 Dom Joseph Castel
  35. 1736 Dom Jean Bourdet
  36. 1739 Dom Jean Bourdet
  37. 1742 Dom J. De Launay
  38. 1745 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  39. 1748 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  40. 1751 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  41. 1754 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  42. 1757 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  43. 1760 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  44. 1763 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  45. 1766 Dom René Anne Even
  46. 1769 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  47. 1772 Dom Raymond Castel
  48. 1775 Dom Mathurin Peigné
  49. 1781 Dom Ambroise Louis Geoffroy Le Meur
  50. 1783 Dom Al. Jul. Jean De La Hamelinaye
  51. 1788 Dom Henri Pierre Viguier

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. VIII, Province ecclésiastique de Tours (Archives de la France monastique XIX), 1920, diocèse de Rennes, p. 209-210 · Biblissima, notice « Rennes. Abbaye Saint-Melaine » (d’après BnF) · POP/Mérimée PA00090672, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Melaine (classée 21/08/1959 et 02/07/2013) · POP/Mérimée PA00090679, Église Notre-Dame-en-Saint-Mélaine · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Turpenay
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Turpenay
The house today. Photo: Claude villetaneuse, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Turpenay

Saint-Benoît-la-Forêt (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1667

According to Beaunier-Besse, Foulques the Younger, Count of Anjou, founded the abbey in 1127; the archbishop of Tours approved it in 1129. According to Martène, the reform of Saint-Maur was introduced there in 1667. In 1791 only two monks remained there, and the abbey was afterwards demolished. Only remains of it survive, today private property.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1763
  1. 1669 Dom Yves Jardin
  2. 1672 Dom Yves Gaigneron
  3. 1675 Dom Jean Baptiste Hardouineau
  4. 1678 Dom Jean Baptiste Hardouineau
  5. 1687 Dom René Roquet
  6. 1690 Dom René Roquet
  7. 1693 Dom Antoine Touchard
  8. 1696 Dom Antoine Touchard
  9. 1702 Dom François Riant
  10. 1708 Dom Martin Corneau
  11. 1711 Dom Jacques Molandin
  12. 1714 Dom Abraham Sonnet
  13. 1717 Dom Jacques Goupil
  14. 1720 Dom Jacques Goupil
  15. 1723 Dom Julien Cochet
  16. 1726 Dom Julien Cochet
  17. 1729 Dom Julien Cochet
  18. 1732 Dom Louis Mollandin
  19. 1736 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Boucher
  20. 1739 Dom Joseph Bérard
  21. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Chéry
  22. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Chéry
  23. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Lebeau
  24. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Lebeau
  25. 1754 Dom Michel Lépinois
  26. 1757 Dom François Cabaret
  27. 1760 Dom Mathieu Larocheaulion
  28. 1763 Dom Pierre Brunet

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBnF, notice d’autorité « Abbaye Notre-Dame de Turpenay (Saint-Benoît, Indre-et-Loire) » · Beaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Tours, p. 34-35 · POP/Mérimée PA00098062, Vestiges de l’abbaye de Turpenay (inscrits 1927, modifié 1948) · Dom E. Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, éd. G. Charvin, t. IV, 1930, p. 204 (introduction de la réforme à Turpenay, 1667) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Gildas de Rhuys
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Gildas de Rhuys
The house today. Photo: Romary, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Gildas de Rhuys

Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys (Morbihan) · diocese of Vannes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1649-1651

The abbey, which tradition links to Saint Gildas, was restored at the beginning of the 11th century by Saint Félix; Abelard was its abbot from 1125 to 1132. By a concordat of November 1649, monks of Saint-Maur who came from Redon introduced their reform there. After the death of the last abbot in 1772, the abbatial title was suppressed and the abbot’s mensa united to the bishopric of Vannes; the monastery was sold in 1796. The church is now a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1654-1788
  1. 1654 Dom Robert Diée
  2. 1657 Dom Dominique Huillard
  3. 1660 Dom Dominique Huillard
  4. 1663 Dom Etienne Demonts
  5. 1666 Dom Etienne Demonts
  6. 1669 Dom Pierre Chérot
  7. 1672 Dom Gérard Pinet
  8. 1675 Dom Nicolas De Saint-Denis
  9. 1678 Dom Martin Drouin
  10. 1681 Dom Martin Drouin
  11. 1684 Dom Nicolas Hougatz
  12. 1687 Dom Nicolas Hougatz
  13. 1690 Dom Augustin Des Bois
  14. 1693 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  15. 1696 Dom André Le Maistre
  16. 1699 Dom André Le Maistre
  17. 1702 Dom Joseph Miniac
  18. 1705 Dom Joseph Miniac
  19. 1708 Dom Pierre Merceron
  20. 1711 Dom René Bechereau
  21. 1714 Dom Joseph Joly
  22. 1717 Dom Joseph Joly
  23. 1720 Dom Etienne Bérard
  24. 1723 Dom Gilles Lelièvre
  25. 1726 Dom Pierre Aubin
  26. 1729 Dom Pierre Aubin
  27. 1733 Dom Antoine Lalloué
  28. 1736 Dom Antoine Lalloué
  29. 1739 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  30. 1742 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  31. 1748 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  32. 1751 Dom Yves Marie Buzaré
  33. 1757 Dom Pierre Anne Even
  34. 1760 Dom Claude Joseph Allain
  35. 1763 Dom Aimé Joseph Surineau
  36. 1766 Dom Guillaume Bellegarde
  37. 1769 Dom René Bizien
  38. 1772 Dom René Bizien
  39. 1775 Dom Henri Heully
  40. 1778 Dom Ambroise Louis Geoffroy Le Meur
  41. 1781 Dom Hillion Léon Laurent
  42. 1783 Dom Antoine Marc Perron
  43. 1788 Dom Yves René Gannat

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Vannes, p. 326-327 · BnF, notice d’autorité « Abbaye Saint-Gildas (Saint-Gildas-de-Rhuys, Morbihan) » · M. Sepet, Saint-Gildas de Ruis : aperçus d’histoire monastique, Paris, Téqui, 1900, p. 322-323 · POP/Mérimée PA00091674, Église Saint-Gildas (classée 1840) · Marius Sepet, Saint-Gildas de Ruis : aperçus d’histoire monastique, Paris, 1900, p. 348, 361-363 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Gildas-des-Bois
The house today. Photo: Jibi44, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Gildas-des-Bois

Saint-Gildas-des-Bois (Loire-Atlantique) · diocese of Nantes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1645-1648

According to Beaunier-Besse, a priory was founded around 1020 for the abbey of Redon by the lord of La Roche-Bernard, and was later raised to an abbey. The Congregation of Saint-Maur settled there around 1645-1648 and restored the monastery. The Romanesque church is now a parish church, and the Sisters of Christian Instruction occupy the conventual buildings.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1654 Dom Anselme Claire
  2. 1657 Dom Colomban Le Fay
  3. 1660 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  4. 1663 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  5. 1666 Dom Jean Baptiste Godefroy
  6. 1669 Dom Antoine Sainctoire
  7. 1672 Dom Michel Carrat
  8. 1675 Dom Pierre Terrien
  9. 1678 Dom Germain Cousin
  10. 1681 Dom Jacques Pallu
  11. 1684 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  12. 1687 Dom Augustin Des Bois
  13. 1690 Dom Jean Baptiste Guyon
  14. 1693 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  15. 1696 Dom Alexandre Thévin
  16. 1699 Dom Alexandre Thévin
  17. 1702 Dom Gatien Maultrot
  18. 1705 Dom Gatien Maultrot
  19. 1708 Dom André Le Maistre
  20. 1711 Dom Jean Bellan
  21. 1714 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  22. 1717 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  23. 1720 Dom Léon Le Chevalier
  24. 1723 Dom Léon Le Chevalier
  25. 1726 Dom Claude Patron
  26. 1729 Dom Jean Baptiste Charil
  27. 1733 Dom Jean Baptiste Charil
  28. 1736 Dom Jean Pierre Martin
  29. 1739 Dom Joseph René Lefaucheux
  30. 1742 Dom Joseph René Lefaucheux
  31. 1745 Dom Claude Levacher
  32. 1748 Dom Joseph René Lefaucheux
  33. 1751 Dom Jean Delaunay
  34. 1754 Dom Claude Marie Hermans
  35. 1757 Dom François Dupuy
  36. 1760 Dom François Dupuy
  37. 1763 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  38. 1766 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  39. 1769 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  40. 1772 Dom René Le Vittoux
  41. 1775 Dom René Le Vittoux
  42. 1778 Dom Pierre Papion
  43. 1781 Dom Jacques Marye
  44. 1783 Dom Yves René Gannat
  45. 1788 Dom Charles Joseph De La Passaig

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Nantes, p. 248 · BnF, notice d’autorité « Abbaye Saint-Gildas (Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, Loire-Atlantique) » · POP/Mérimée PA00108797, Ancienne abbaye (église classée 30/12/1994, bâtiments inscrits 02/07/2003)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Jacut
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Jacut
The house today. Photo: Thérèse Gaigé, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Jacut

Saint-Jacut-de-la-Mer (Côtes-d’Armor) · diocese of Dol · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1646

According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbey bears the name of the saint who is said to have founded it at the time of the Breton immigration; destroyed by the Normans, it was restored in the 11th century. It entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1646. In the 19th century, sisters of the Immaculate Conception settled in the former monastery, which today receives guests.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1654 Dom Félix Pasquier
  2. 1657 Dom Julien Cohu
  3. 1660 Dom Julien Cohu
  4. 1663 Dom Jacques Jolly
  5. 1666 Dom Valéry Parent
  6. 1669 Dom Valéry Parent
  7. 1672 Dom Gilles La Moulnier
  8. 1675 Dom Gilles La Moulnier
  9. 1678 Dom Thomas Barbe
  10. 1681 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  11. 1684 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  12. 1687 Dom Joseph Miniac
  13. 1690 Dom Antoine Fournel
  14. 1693 Dom Georges Terriau
  15. 1696 Dom Georges Terriau
  16. 1699 Dom Bernard Fernet
  17. 1702 Dom Alexandre Thévin
  18. 1705 Dom Urbain Trottier
  19. 1708 Dom Urbain Trottier
  20. 1711 Dom Nicolas Hougatz
  21. 1714 Dom Etienne Bérard
  22. 1717 Dom Sébastien Trotbert
  23. 1720 Dom René Bechereau
  24. 1723 Dom Jacques Nicolas Maumousseau
  25. 1726 Dom Augustin Leroy
  26. 1729 Dom Junien Cordet
  27. 1733 Dom Pierre Collet
  28. 1736 Dom Jean Baptiste Charil
  29. 1739 Dom Jean Baptiste Charil
  30. 1742 Dom Jean François Ernault
  31. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  32. 1748 Dom Julien Guillotel
  33. 1751 Dom Julien Guillotel
  34. 1754 Dom Nicolas Adam
  35. 1754 Dom Tanguy Avril
  36. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  37. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  38. 1763 Dom Jean Claude Mahé
  39. 1766 Dom Jean François Louasson
  40. 1769 Dom Jean François Louasson
  41. 1772 Dom Jean François Louasson
  42. 1775 Dom Jean François Louasson
  43. 1778 Dom Pl. François Xavier Estin
  44. 1781 Dom André Mathé
  45. 1783 Dom Michel Le Sire
  46. 1788 Dom Huet François Pénis

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Dol, p. 280 · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Benoît de Saint-Malo
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Prieuré Saint-Benoît de Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine) · diocese of Saint-Malo · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1669

The priory was first founded at Paramé in 1611 by Dom Gabriel de Sainte-Marie Giffard and a few English Benedictines, then moved into the walled town. The English monks had to withdraw, and Maurists replaced them in 1669. The monastery was destroyed during the Revolution; the church then served as a tobacco warehouse.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 Dom Arsène Mancel
  2. 1672 Dom Jean Lorier
  3. 1675 Dom Jean Lorier
  4. 1678 Dom Pierre Terrien
  5. 1681 Dom Pierre Terrien
  6. 1684 Dom Jacques Morin
  7. 1687 Dom Charles Turpin
  8. 1690 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  9. 1693 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  10. 1696 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  11. 1699 Dom Placide Leduc
  12. 1702 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  13. 1705 Dom Nicolas Hougatz
  14. 1708 Dom Martin Drouin
  15. 1711 Dom Martin Drouin
  16. 1714 Dom Claude Patron
  17. 1717 Dom André Le Maistre
  18. 1720 Dom Marc Grassin
  19. 1723 Dom Marc Grassin
  20. 1726 Dom Simon Maugé
  21. 1729 Dom Placide Perron
  22. 1733 Dom Placide Perron
  23. 1739 Dom Hubert Benoist
  24. 1742 Dom Placide Perron
  25. 1745 Dom Victor De Fougeras
  26. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  27. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  28. 1754 Dom Nicolas Jamin
  29. 1757 Dom Nicolas Jamin
  30. 1760 Dom J. Bertin
  31. 1763 Dom Nicolas Jamin
  32. 1766 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat
  33. 1769 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat
  34. 1772 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat
  35. 1775 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat
  36. 1778 Dom Etienne Pierre Barat
  37. 1781 Dom Louis Rousseau
  38. 1783 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat
  39. 1788 Dom Gilbert Marie Cunat

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Saint-Malo, p. 302 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Florent de Saumur (Saint-Florent-lès-Saumur)
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Florent de Saumur (Saint-Florent-lès-Saumur)
The house today. Photo: Ecobaniaz, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Florent de Saumur (Saint-Florent-lès-Saumur)

Saumur (Maine-et-Loire) · diocese of Angers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1637

Monks driven from Mont-Glonne by the Normans took refuge in Saumur; after Foulques Nerra captured the town, the abbey was rebuilt near Saint-Hilaire and its church consecrated in 1040. The Maurists reformed it on 31 October 1637. Eleven monks still lived there at the time of the Revolution. The crypt, the Romanesque porch and 18th-century buildings remain.

The Maurist priors, 1639-1788
  1. 1639 Dom Romain Le Gault
  2. 1642 Dom Romain Le Gault
  3. 1645 Dom Innocent Flahaut
  4. 1648 Dom Robert Jamet
  5. 1651 Dom Placide Rasteau
  6. 1654 Dom Placide Rasteau
  7. 1657 Dom André Faye
  8. 1660 Dom André Faye
  9. 1663 Dom Robert Diée
  10. 1666 Dom Grégoire Bodin
  11. 1669 Dom Joseph Bourret
  12. 1672 Dom Philippe Cadeau
  13. 1675 Dom Martin Le Poitevin
  14. 1678 Dom Martin Le Poitevin
  15. 1681 Dom Louis Tasche
  16. 1684 Dom Louis Tasche
  17. 1687 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  18. 1690 Dom Philippe Rousseau
  19. 1693 Dom Placide Chassinat
  20. 1696 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  21. 1699 Dom Pierre Chevillard
  22. 1702 Dom Claude Patron
  23. 1705 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  24. 1708 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  25. 1711 Dom Louis Tasche
  26. 1714 Dom Louis Tasche
  27. 1717 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  28. 1720 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  29. 1723 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  30. 1726 Dom Jacques Nicolas Maumousseau
  31. 1729 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  32. 1733 Dom Martin Corneau
  33. 1736 Dom François Guérin
  34. 1739 Dom Anselme Amiraud
  35. 1742 Dom Anselme Amiraud
  36. 1745 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  37. 1748 Dom Yves Roumain
  38. 1751 Dom Jean François Murault
  39. 1754 Dom Placide Legault
  40. 1757 Dom Placide Legault
  41. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  42. 1763 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  43. 1766 Dom Pierre Hutru
  44. 1769 Dom René Julien Massey
  45. 1772 Dom René Julien Massey
  46. 1775 Dom René Julien Massey
  47. 1778 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  48. 1781 Dom René Julien Massey
  49. 1783 Dom René Julien Massey
  50. 1788 Dom Claude François Bruneau

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse d’Angers, p. 91-93 · BnF, notice d’autorité « Abbaye de Saint-Florent de Saumur » · POP/Mérimée PA00109302, Abbaye de Saint-Florent-lès-Saumur (classée 30/11/1964 et 24/10/1973) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Solesmes
The house today. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Solesmes

Solesmes (Sarthe) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1664

Around 1010 Geoffroy, lord of Sablé, gave the priory of Saint-Pierre to the abbey of la Couture du Mans, which maintained a community there. Monks of the Congregation of Saint-Maur were established there in 1664. The monastery was rebuilt in 1732 and suppressed at the Revolution. Dom Guéranger restored Benedictine life there in 1833; the house was raised to an abbey in 1837, and a community lives there today.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 P. S. G.
  2. 1669 P. S. G.
  3. 1672 Dom Armand Blouin (adm.)
  4. 1675 Dom Augustin du Bois
  5. 1678 Contin.
  6. 1681 Dom Claude Cernay
  7. 1684 Contin.
  8. 1687 Dom Guillaume Foucher
  9. 1690 Contin.
  10. 1693 Dom François Riant
  11. 1696 Contin.
  12. 1699 P. S. G.
  13. 1702 Dom Antoine Touchard
  14. 1705 Contin.
  15. 1708 Dom Gatien Mautrot
  16. 1711 Contin.
  17. 1714 Dom J. de Maillé
  18. 1717 Contin.
  19. 1720 Dom Gatien Mautrot
  20. 1723 Dom Marc Théaud
  21. 1726 Contin.
  22. 1729 Dom Antoine Lalloué (adm.)
  23. 1733 Dom Gilles de Gennes (adm.)
  24. 1736 Dom Julien Marin Crochet
  25. 1739 Contin.
  26. 1742 Dom René Gaultier
  27. 1745 Contin.
  28. 1748 Dom Michel Lépinois
  29. 1751 Contin.
  30. 1754 Dom Jean Baptiste Giron (adm.)
  31. 1757 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  32. 1760 Dom Edmond Jean Baptiste Petit
  33. 1763 Dom Marc Antoine Guillon
  34. 1766 Dom J. Thomas Lamandé
  35. 1769 Dom Jul. Gilles Pitteu
  36. 1772 Dom Chrysostome Aug. Flosceau
  37. 1775 Contin.
  38. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Couléon
  39. 1781 Dom Jean René Alexis Louason
  40. 1783 Contin.
  41. 1788 Dom François de Sageon

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, VIII (Tours), AFM XIX, p. 162-163 · Cottineau, t. II (1939), art. Solesmes · Lecestre (1902), p. 15 · POP Mérimée PA00109972, Abbaye · Thierry Barbeau, Mille ans d’histoire à l’abbaye de Solesmes : sub titulo Petri, Mulsanne, ITF ; Solesmes, Éditions de Solesmes, 2009, 118 p.

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Julien de Tours
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Julien de Tours
The house today. Photo: Eusebius, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Julien de Tours

Tours (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1637

Destroyed by the Normans, the abbey was re-established between 938 and 942 by Archbishop Téotolon with the help of Saint Odo, abbot of Cluny, who died there. After a long decline, it was entrusted to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1637. The abbatial mensa was united with the Jesuit college in 1735. The church is now a parish church, and the chapter house survives.

The Maurist priors, 1639-1788
  1. 1639 Dom Antoine Dohin
  2. 1642 Dom Benoît De Jumilhac
  3. 1645 Dom Benoît De Jumilhac
  4. 1648 Dom Albert De Maubreuil
  5. 1651 Dom Albert De Maubreuil
  6. 1654 Dom Paul De Rivery
  7. 1657 Dom Paul De Rivery
  8. 1660 Dom Arsène Mancel
  9. 1663 Dom Michel Desfosses
  10. 1666 Dom Gérard Pinet
  11. 1669 Dom Gérard Pinet
  12. 1672 Dom François Chevrier
  13. 1675 Dom Léonard Chastel
  14. 1678 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  15. 1681 Dom Henri Fermelys
  16. 1684 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  17. 1687 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  18. 1690 Dom Denis De Sainte-Marthe
  19. 1693 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  20. 1696 Dom Jean Linard
  21. 1699 Dom Etienne Badier
  22. 1702 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  23. 1705 Dom Jacques Charles Le Boucher
  24. 1708 Dom Henri Fermelys
  25. 1711 Dom Henri Fermelys
  26. 1714 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  27. 1717 Dom Jacques Louis Monneheu
  28. 1720 Dom Bède Bernard
  29. 1723 Dom Placide Féron
  30. 1726 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  31. 1729 Dom François Guérin
  32. 1733 Dom François Guérin
  33. 1736 Dom Mathurin Le Fresne
  34. 1739 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  35. 1742 Dom Yves Roumain
  36. 1745 Dom Yves Roumain
  37. 1748 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  38. 1751 Dom Mathurin Pesgre
  39. 1754 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  40. 1757 Dom Claude Marie Hermans
  41. 1760 Dom Claude Marie Hermans
  42. 1763 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  43. 1766 Dom Jean Vernet
  44. 1769 Dom René Anne Even
  45. 1772 Dom Jean Fresnel
  46. 1775 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  47. 1778 Dom André Mahé
  48. 1781 Dom Pierre Papion
  49. 1783 Dom Sébastien Bonart
  50. 1788 Dom J. Marie Nicolas Baron

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Tours, p. 22-23 · POP/Mérimée PA00098153, Église paroissiale Saint-Julien (classée 1840) · POP/Mérimée PA00098130, Ancienne abbaye de Saint-Julien (protections 1923, 1940, 1947, 1948) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Marmoutier
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Marmoutier
The house today. Photo: Guill37, public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Martin de Marmoutier

Tours (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1637

Born of the hermitage founded by Saint Martin on the banks of the Loire, Marmoutier was joined to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1637; several general chapters of the congregation were later held there. The abbatial mensa was united with the archbishopric of Tours in 1739. The monastery, demolished in the 19th century, left the Portail de la Crosse and remains of the abbey church, which excavations are now studying.

The Maurist priors, 1639-1788
  1. 1639 Dom Jacques Brossaud
  2. 1642 Dom Anselme Dohin
  3. 1645 Dom Joseph Séguin
  4. 1648 Contin.
  5. 1651 Dom Germain Morel
  6. 1654 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  7. 1657 Contin.
  8. 1660 Dom Anselme Guscheman
  9. 1663 Dom Mayeul Hazon
  10. 1666 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  11. 1669 Contin.
  12. 1672 Dom Philippe Le Roy
  13. 1675 Contin.
  14. 1678 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  15. 1681 Contin.
  16. 1684 Dom Jean Lorier
  17. 1687 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  18. 1690 Dom Claude Martin
  19. 1693 Contin.
  20. 1696 Dom Louis Tasche
  21. 1699 Contin.
  22. 1702 Dom Innocent Bonnefoy
  23. 1705 Dom Louis Tasche
  24. 1708 Contin.
  25. 1711 Dom Martin Filland
  26. 1714 Dom François Duvivier
  27. 1717 Dom Joseph Miniac
  28. 1720 Dom Magloire Loz
  29. 1723 Dom Maur Audran
  30. 1726 Dom Jean Baptiste Linard
  31. 1729 Dom Guillaume Roumain
  32. 1733 Dom Nicolas Vignolles
  33. 1736 Contin.
  34. 1739 Dom René Junien
  35. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Floyrac
  36. 1745 Dom Jean François Murault
  37. 1748 Contin.
  38. 1751 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  39. 1754 Dom Mathurin Le Fresne
  40. 1757 Dom René Jean Rouaud
  41. 1760 Contin.
  42. 1763 Dom René Anne Even
  43. 1766 Dom René Desmares
  44. 1769 Contin.
  45. 1772 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy de Villeblanche
  46. 1775 Contin.
  47. 1778 Dom Antoine Jean Quinquet
  48. 1781 Contin.
  49. 1783 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy de Villeblanche
  50. 1788 Dom Pl. François Xavier Estin

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 28-32 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · Huynes, Histoire générale de l’abbaye du Mont-St-Michel, éd. Beaurepaire, t. II, 1873, p. 225 (chapitre général de 1657 à Marmoutier) · POP/Mérimée PA00098129, Ancienne abbaye de Marmoutier · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Notre-Dame de Tuffé
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Prieuré Notre-Dame de Tuffé

Tuffé Val de la Chéronne (Sarthe) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1646

According to Beaunier-Besse, the priory of Notre-Dame de Tuffé had depended on the abbey of Saint-Vincent du Mans since 1071. A community of the Congregation of Saint-Maur settled there in 1646 and rebuilt the monastic buildings. From 1648 to 1651 the appointment of its prior was left to the abbot of Saint-Vincent du Mans. The community was dissolved in 1768 and its monks joined Saint-Vincent. Sold during the Revolution, the site later housed a faience pottery. The surviving Maurist buildings now belong to the municipality.

The Maurist priors, 1654-1763
  1. 1654 Dom Guillaume de Rieux
  2. 1657 Contin.
  3. 1660 Dom Julien Raguideau
  4. 1663 Contin.
  5. 1666 Dom Michel Canart
  6. 1669 Contin.
  7. 1672 Dom Julien Turpin
  8. 1675 Contin.
  9. 1678 Dom Charles Hérissé
  10. 1681 Contin.
  11. 1684 Dom Georges Terriau
  12. 1687 Contin.
  13. 1690 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  14. 1693 Contin.
  15. 1696 Dom Pierre Quillet
  16. 1699 Dom Joseph Gouin
  17. 1702 Dom Louis Le Maignien
  18. 1705 Dom Alexandre Thévin
  19. 1708 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  20. 1711 Dom Louis Jacques
  21. 1714 Contin.
  22. 1717 Dom Jean Bapt. Gobert
  23. 1720 Dom Joseph Fournier (adm.)
  24. 1723 Dom Jacques Le Gai
  25. 1726 Dom Pierre Allard
  26. 1729 Contin.
  27. 1733 Dom Hyacinthe Rolland
  28. 1736 Dom Pierre Allard
  29. 1739 Contin.
  30. 1742 Dom Thomas Lohier
  31. 1745 Julien Debos
  32. 1748 Dom Jean Bapt. Petit
  33. 1751 Contin.
  34. 1754 Dom Charles de Cervol
  35. 1757 Contin.
  36. 1760 Dom François Remont
  37. 1763 Contin.

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII, 1920, p. 195-196 (Tuffé, Notre-Dame, dépendant de Saint-Vincent depuis 1071) · Lecestre, 1902, p. 15 · Atlantic Loire Valley, Abbaye de Tuffé · Monumentum, liste MH de Tuffé Val de la Chéronne · Julien-Rémy Pesche, Dictionnaire topographique, historique et statistique de la Sarthe, t. VI, Le Mans, Monnoyer ; Paris, Bachelier, 1842 · Charles Girault, Les biens d’Église dans la Sarthe à la fin du XVIIIe siècle, Laval, Goupil, 1953, XVI-494 p. · Lucette Combes-Mésière et Gil Galbrun-Chouteau (dir.), Potiers et faïenciers de la Sarthe, Le Mans, Éditions de la Reinette, 2002, 531 p. · Thierry Barbeau, Les jardins monastiques à l’époque moderne : Hortésie chez les mauristes, Mulsanne, ITF (Bibliotheca Vincentiana), 2007, 100 p. · André Lévy (dir.), Les hommes et les défis d’une restauration. Actes du colloque Le Mans, Vivoin, Tuffé, 27-29 novembre 2008, Mulsanne, ITF (Bibliotheca Vincentiana), 2010, 64 p. · Dom E. Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, éd. G. Charvin, t. III, 1929, p. 42 (introduction de la réforme à Tuffé, 1646) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Martin de Vertou
The house today. Photo: Selbymay, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Martin de Vertou

Vertou (Loire-Atlantique) · diocese of Nantes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1664

According to Beaunier-Besse, Saint Martin of Vertou founded the monastery in the 6th century. Destroyed during the Norman invasions, it was re-established as a priory of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes, which kept a community there. This community was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1664; the monks of La Chaume moved there in 1767. A 17th-century porch survives.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Jacques Sergent
  2. 1669 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  3. 1672 Dom Laurent Chauvin
  4. 1675 Dom Urbain Cerclé
  5. 1678 Dom Urbain Cerclé
  6. 1681 Dom Thomas Barbe
  7. 1684 Dom Thomas Barbe
  8. 1687 Dom Claude Cernay
  9. 1690 Dom Jean Blusson
  10. 1693 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  11. 1696 Dom Etienne Macé
  12. 1699 Dom Etienne Macé
  13. 1702 Dom Thomas Jouneaux
  14. 1705 Dom René Duhamel
  15. 1708 Dom René Duhamel
  16. 1714 Dom Martin Corneau
  17. 1717 Dom Martin Corneau
  18. 1720 Dom Etienne Du Faure
  19. 1723 Dom Joseph Fournier
  20. 1726 Dom Louis Jacques
  21. 1729 Dom Joseph Théaud
  22. 1733 Dom Jean Bigot
  23. 1736 Dom Sever Marcheix
  24. 1739 Dom Martin Corneau
  25. 1742 Dom Théodore Bannière
  26. 1745 Dom Louis Philippe
  27. 1748 Dom Jean Cassart
  28. 1751 Dom Jean Cassart
  29. 1754 Dom Jean Cassart
  30. 1757 Dom Hilaire Rattery
  31. 1760 Dom Georges Hully
  32. 1763 Dom Georges Hully
  33. 1766 Dom Georges Hully
  34. 1769 Dom Pl. François Xavier Estin
  35. 1772 Dom Pl. François Xavier Estin
  36. 1775 Dom Jean Julien Lecerf
  37. 1778 Dom Jean Julien Lecerf
  38. 1783 Dom Henri François Pierre Soulâtre
  39. 1788 Dom Henri François Pierre Soulâtre

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Nantes, p. 250-251 · POP/Mérimée PA00108840, Abbaye (ancienne) : porche inscrit 20/10/1971

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Villeloin
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Villeloin
The house today. Photo: Tatmouss, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Villeloin

Villeloin-Coulangé (Indre-et-Loire) · diocese of Tours · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1669

According to Beaunier-Besse, two brothers, Ménard and Mainier, founded the abbey around 850 and placed it under Cormery for a century. It suffered greatly in the Hundred Years’ War. The Congregation of Saint-Maur incorporated it on 1 January 1669. Four monks lived there at the time of the Revolution; the abbey was then largely demolished. The fortified gates and the abbot’s lodging survive.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 Dom Jacques Leclerc
  2. 1672 Dom Jacques Leclerc
  3. 1675 Dom Urbain Bodin
  4. 1678 Dom Georges Terriau
  5. 1681 Dom Georges Terriau
  6. 1684 Dom Guillaume Foucher
  7. 1687 Dom René Boisgautier
  8. 1690 Dom Daniel Billouet
  9. 1693 Dom Guillaume Foucher
  10. 1696 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  11. 1699 Dom Benoît Even
  12. 1702 Dom Joseph Auffret
  13. 1705 Dom Joseph Auffret
  14. 1708 Dom René Cabaret
  15. 1711 Dom Yves Tharot
  16. 1714 Dom Etienne Dufaure
  17. 1717 Dom Marc Théaud
  18. 1720 Dom Joseph Joly
  19. 1723 Dom Etienne Bérard
  20. 1726 Dom Etienne Bérard
  21. 1729 Dom Henri Morin
  22. 1733 Dom Joseph Théaud
  23. 1736 Dom Yves Bugard
  24. 1739 Dom Hyacinthe Briancourt
  25. 1742 Dom Joseph Bérard
  26. 1745 Dom Jean Marc Foussard
  27. 1748 Dom J. Bertin
  28. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  29. 1754 Dom Jean Baptiste Chambellan
  30. 1757 Dom Tanguy Avril
  31. 1760 Dom Tanguy Avril
  32. 1763 Dom Jean Duchemin
  33. 1769 Dom André Mahé
  34. 1772 Dom André Mahé
  35. 1775 Dom Charles Antoine Marie
  36. 1778 Dom François Mathieu Lasnier
  37. 1781 Dom François Mathieu Lasnier
  38. 1783 Dom Jacques Gentil
  39. 1788 Dom Jacques Emmanuel Charpentier

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBnF, notice d’autorité « Abbaye Saint-Sauveur (Villeloin-Coulangé, Indre-et-Loire) » · Beaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Tours, p. 35 · POP/Mérimée PA00098293, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Sauveur (inscrite 1927) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Notre-Dame de Vitré
The house today. Photo: Fab5669, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Notre-Dame de Vitré

Vitré (Ille-et-Vilaine) · diocese of Rennes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1658

Founded around 1060 for canons regular, the priory was entrusted in 1116 to the monks of Saint-Melaine de Rennes. In 1658 its commendatory prior placed it under the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which kept a community there until the Revolution. In the 17th century the Maurists built the conventual buildings around a square cloister. The church of Notre-Dame is now a parish church; the convent houses the law court and a music school. The lists of Dom Besse (1906) and of 1768 name the Maurist house of Vitré Sainte-Croix; Beaunier-Besse and the priory’s register (1658-1768) place it at Notre-Dame.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1675 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  2. 1678 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  3. 1681 Dom Pierre Gingatz
  4. 1684 Dom Jacques Duchemin
  5. 1687 Dom Jacques Duchemin
  6. 1690 Dom Martin Drouin
  7. 1693 Dom Martin Drouin
  8. 1696 Dom Nicolas Hubert
  9. 1699 Dom Jean Lorier
  10. 1702 Dom Placide Le Duc
  11. 1705 Dom Etienne Deschamps
  12. 1708 Dom Jean Bellan
  13. 1711 Dom Pierre Marie Lelièvre
  14. 1714 Dom Jean Baptiste Gobert
  15. 1717 Dom Placide Féron
  16. 1720 Dom Placide Féron
  17. 1723 Dom Martin Corneau
  18. 1726 Dom Jacques Grassin
  19. 1729 Dom Jacques Grassin
  20. 1733 Dom Claude Levacher
  21. 1736 Dom Hyacinthe Rolland
  22. 1739 Dom Hyacinthe Rolland
  23. 1742 Dom Th. Arnoul Lapie
  24. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  25. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  26. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Bellegarde
  27. 1754 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  28. 1757 Dom Jean René Cruchon
  29. 1760 Dom Joseph Bryon
  30. 1763 Dom J. Thomas Lamandé
  31. 1781 Dom Al. Jul. Jean De La Hamelinaye
  32. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Deroy
  33. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Deroy

Partial list: the year is that of appointment or, failing that, the year in which the source mentions the prior in office. P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. VIII (1920), diocèse de Rennes, p. 213-214 (Notre-Dame de Vitré soumise à Saint-Maur en 1658 ; registre historique du prieuré, 1658-1768) · POP/Mérimée PA00090904, Ancien prieuré de bénédictins Notre-Dame (classé 06/07/1987) · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 (« Sainte-Croix de Vitré », province de Bretagne) · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 15 (« Sainte-Croix, à Vitré »)

Sources of this pageEngraved views: Monasticon Gallicanum, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Department of Prints and Photographs, public-domain reproductions published by Wikimedia Commons. Lists of priors: after dom G. Charvin, “Contribution à l’étude du personnel de la congrégation de Saint-Maur (1612-1789)”, Revue Mabillon, 1956-1959; for Eysses (province of Toulouse) and Saint-Maixent (province of Chezal-Benoît), after the monographs cited under their lists. Notices: Dom J.-M. Besse and dom Ch. Beaunier, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, Archives de la France monastique, 1905-1941; L. Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902; the Mérimée database of the Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine; BnF authority records; the Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel. The references for each house are given under its entry.

The Maurist housesThe Congregation of Saint-MaurMaurist Mas-Garnier