Conservatoire
du Patrimoine
des Abbayes

Saint-Maur

The Maurist houses of the province of Burgundy

Twenty-two abbeys and one priory, from the Loire valley to the Bresse.

The province of Burgundy gathered the Maurist houses of Burgundy, the Sénonais and the Gâtinais, together with those of the Loire valley, from Blois and Vendôme to Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, as well as Saint-Calais in Maine and Ambronay in the Bresse. Vendôme received the reform as early as 1621 and Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire in 1627; Saint-Bénigne of Dijon received it only in 1651. 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 Burgundy

The houses

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ambronay
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ambronay
The house today. Photo: Benoît Prieur, CC0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Notre-Dame d’Ambronay

Ambronay (Ain) · diocese of Lyon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1647-1651

Abbot François de Livron negotiated the union of the abbey with the Congregation of Saint-Maur as early as 1637, but the Maurists were introduced only in 1651, despite the opposition of his successor. The list of priors already bears the entry P. S. G. for 1645 and 1648, before the Maurists actually arrived. According to the Gallia christiana, from then on a monk was always charged with teaching letters to the young people of the village. The Revolution drove out the monks, and the buildings served as a prison and as a farm. The abbey now hosts a festival of Baroque music.

The Maurist priors, 1645-1788
  1. 1645 P. S. G.
  2. 1648 P. S. G.
  3. 1651 Dom Jacques Sergent
  4. 1654 Contin.
  5. 1657 Dom Sylvestre Le Petit
  6. 1660 Contin.
  7. 1663 Dom Robert Bérault
  8. 1666 Contin.
  9. 1669 Dom Etienne Simonneau
  10. 1672 Contin.
  11. 1675 Dom Pierre Robert
  12. 1678 Dom Jean des Roches
  13. 1681 Contin.
  14. 1684 Dom Jean de Saint-Léger
  15. 1687 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  16. 1690 Dom Marin Bourgoin
  17. 1693 Contin.
  18. 1696 Dom Hugues Amiot
  19. 1699 Contin.
  20. 1702 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  21. 1705 Dom Jacques Marcault
  22. 1708 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  23. 1711 Contin.
  24. 1714 Dom Jean Despierres
  25. 1717 Contin.
  26. 1720 Dom Etienne Sevin
  27. 1723 Dom Pierre Gaubert
  28. 1726 Dom Jean Baptiste Magnin
  29. 1729 Dom Raymond Perbé
  30. 1733 Contin.
  31. 1736 Dom François Godineau
  32. 1739 Dom Maurice de Hautot
  33. 1742 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  34. 1745 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  35. 1748 Dom Léonard Letessier
  36. 1751 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  37. 1754 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  38. 1757 Dom Etienne Grasset
  39. 1760 Dom Jean Claude Barbier
  40. 1763 Dom Michel Fillol
  41. 1766 Dom Gaspard de la Porte
  42. 1769 Contin.
  43. 1772 Dom Joachim Brunet
  44. 1775 Dom Antoine Goutelle
  45. 1778 Dom Bénigne Madenié
  46. 1781 Dom Jean-Louis Mestral
  47. 1783 Contin.
  48. 1788 Dom Garreton

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 280-283 (Ambroniacum) · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, notice Ambournay (diocèse de Lyon) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse de Lyon) · POP Mérimée PA00116291, Ancienne abbaye d’Ambronay · Gilles Soubigou (dir.), Florence Beaume, Delphine Cano et al., L’abbaye d’Ambronay, Genouilleux, La Passe du vent (Patrimoines pour demain), 2012, 128 p. (ISBN 978-2-84562-216-6) · Abbaye d’Ambronay, site officiel · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Abbaye Saint-Martin d’Autun

Autun (Saône-et-Loire) · diocese of Autun · Congregation of Saint-Maur: c. 1654

Founded, according to tradition, by Queen Brunhild, who was buried there, the abbey stood a quarter of a league from the town. In the middle of the seventeenth century, the commendatory abbot Nicolas Jeannin de Castille made an agreement to introduce the Congregation of Saint-Maur there; the record of the Bibliothèque nationale gives the year 1654. The abbey was closed at the Revolution.

The Maurist priors, 1657-1788
  1. 1657 Dom Lucien Frion
  2. 1660 Dom Anselme Dohin
  3. 1663 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  4. 1666 Dom Lucien Frion
  5. 1669 Dom Louis Janet
  6. 1672 Dom Louis Janet
  7. 1675 Dom Hugues Bérard
  8. 1678 Dom Hugues Bérard
  9. 1681 Dom Agathange Collot
  10. 1684 Dom Jean Lancesseur
  11. 1687 Dom Jean Lancesseur
  12. 1690 Dom Placide Falgueyrat
  13. 1693 Dom Placide Falgueyrat
  14. 1696 Dom Nicolas Richebraque
  15. 1699 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  16. 1702 Dom Jean Baillivet
  17. 1705 Dom Jean Baillivet
  18. 1708 Dom Pierre Le Tellier
  19. 1711 Dom Pierre Le Tellier
  20. 1714 Dom Gabriel La Codre
  21. 1717 Dom Jean Baptiste Tiéblé
  22. 1720 Dom Urbain Plancher
  23. 1723 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  24. 1726 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  25. 1733 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  26. 1736 Dom François Esbrayat
  27. 1739 Dom Pierre Collinet
  28. 1742 Dom Pierre Collinet
  29. 1745 Dom Claude Maur. Jourdain
  30. 1748 Dom Claude Maur. Jourdain
  31. 1754 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  32. 1757 Dom Guillaume Désir
  33. 1760 Dom Guillaume Désir
  34. 1763 Dom Charles François Xavier Joutet
  35. 1766 Dom Mathieu Barrot
  36. 1769 Dom André Gasselin
  37. 1772 Dom Charles François Xavier Joutet
  38. 1775 Dom Joachim Brunet
  39. 1778 Dom Gabriel Martial Bavay
  40. 1781 Dom Etienne Robert De Rochecoute
  41. 1783 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  42. 1788 Dom Pierre François Patenaille

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.

SourcesBiblissima / BnF Archives et manuscrits, « Autun. Abbaye Saint-Martin » · Gallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 454-455 · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, p. 407-409 (Saint-Martin d’Autun) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (Saint-Martin-lès-Autun, province de Bourgogne)

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

Abbaye Saint-Germain d’Auxerre

Auxerre (Yonne) · diocese of Auxerre · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1629

Built over the tomb of Saint Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, the abbey received the reform of the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1629; Dom Beaunier counts it as the thirty-third house united to the congregation. Dom Georges Viole, who was its prior, wrote there the history of the bishops and monasteries of the diocese. After the Revolution, the monastic buildings were assigned to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital. The former abbey now houses the town’s museum of art and history.

The Maurist priors, 1630-1788
  1. 1630 Dom Augustin Reneuve
  2. 1633 Dom Georges Violle
  3. 1636 Dom Philibert Tesson
  4. 1639 Dom Augustin Reneuve
  5. 1642 Contin.
  6. 1645 Dom Anselme Guscheman
  7. 1648 Contin.
  8. 1651 Dom Placide Chouquet
  9. 1654 Dom Benoît Cocquelin
  10. 1657 Dom Gabriel Souyn (adm.)
  11. 1660 Dom Anselme Clairé
  12. 1663 Contin.
  13. 1666 Dom Placide Chouquet
  14. 1669 Dom Silvestre Petit
  15. 1672 Dom Claude Salesses
  16. 1675 Contin.
  17. 1678 Dom Philippe Bastide
  18. 1681 Contin.
  19. 1684 Dom Vincent Sirou
  20. 1687 Contin.
  21. 1690 Dom Jean Lancesseur
  22. 1693 Dom Charles de Rostaing
  23. 1696 Dom Vincent Sirou
  24. 1699 Dom Guy Buisson
  25. 1702 Dom Hubert Maillard (adm.)
  26. 1705 Contin.
  27. 1714 Dom Charles de Rostaing
  28. 1717 Dom Jean Baillivet
  29. 1720 Contin.
  30. 1723 Dom Gabriel La Codre
  31. 1726 Contin.
  32. 1729 Dom Placide Boquet
  33. 1733 Dom André Trablaine
  34. 1736 Dom Jacques Petau
  35. 1739 Contin.
  36. 1742 Dom Maurice Petau
  37. 1745 Contin.
  38. 1748 Dom Guillaume de Launay
  39. 1751 Contin.
  40. 1754 Dom Jean Archambaud
  41. 1757 Dom Joseph Jantot
  42. 1760 Contin.
  43. 1763 Dom Jacques Vaudrey
  44. 1766 Dom Philippe du Soulhier
  45. 1769 Dom Cyr Jolly
  46. 1772 Dom Jean Bapt. Delandre
  47. 1775 Dom Henri Antoine Rosman
  48. 1778 Contin.
  49. 1781 Contin.
  50. 1783 Dom Joseph Philippe Rousseau
  51. 1788 Dom Henri Antoine Rosman

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, t. VI, Province ecclésiastique de Sens (AFM XV), 1913, p. 85-86 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1768), 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse d’Auxerre) · POP Mérimée PA00113579, Abbaye Saint-Germain (ancienne) · Musée d’art et d’histoire Saint-Germain, musée de France M0184 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bèze
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bèze
The house today. Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bèze

Bèze (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Langres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1662

Established near the springs of the river Bèze, the abbey was ruined in 1636 by the imperial troops of Gallas and long remained devastated. United to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1662, it slowly recovered; the conventual buildings were rebuilt from 1738. After 1789 the church was demolished. Two fifteenth-century towers, eighteenth-century wings and the cellar survive today.

The Maurist priors, 1663-1788
  1. 1663 P. S. G.
  2. 1666 Dom Jacques Jandot
  3. 1669 Contin.
  4. 1672 Dom Pierre Fresnay
  5. 1675 Contin.
  6. 1678 Dom Fulgence de Chabannes
  7. 1681 Contin.
  8. 1684 Contin.
  9. 1687 Dom Laurent Joyeux
  10. 1690 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  11. 1693 Contin.
  12. 1696 Dom Jean des Pierres
  13. 1699 Dom Louis Le Maignan
  14. 1702 Dom Jean Hélie
  15. 1705 Dom Nicolas Saulnier
  16. 1708 Contin.
  17. 1711 Dom René de la Haye
  18. 1714 Contin.
  19. 1717 Dom Louis Goupil
  20. 1720 Dom Gilles de Réméon
  21. 1723 Contin.
  22. 1726 Contin.
  23. 1729 Dom Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin
  24. 1733 Dom Gérard Moissard
  25. 1736 Dom Louis Bard
  26. 1739 Dom Philippe de Montigny
  27. 1742 Dom Jacques Boudeau
  28. 1745 Dom Jacques Mornier
  29. 1748 Dom Joseph Bouhigné
  30. 1751 Contin.
  31. 1754 Contin.
  32. 1757 Dom Jean-Baptiste Reynier
  33. 1760 Dom Thomas Mathieu
  34. 1763 Contin.
  35. 1766 Dom Jean-Jacques Vaudrey
  36. 1769 Dom Zacharie Merle
  37. 1772 Dom Germain Gontard
  38. 1775 Dom François Forneron
  39. 1778 Dom Joachim Pioche
  40. 1781 Dom Pierre-François Patenaille
  41. 1783 Dom Joachim Pioche
  42. 1788 Dom Bénigne Madenié

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 712-713 · Beaunier, Recueil historique... des archevêchez, évêchez, abbayes et prieurez de France, t. II, 1726, p. 431-432 (Bèze, diocèse de Langres) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (Bèze listée au diocèse de Langres, province de Bourgogne) · POP Mérimée PA21000055, Ancienne abbaye bénédictine Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul · Solange de Montenay, L’abbaye bénédictine Saint-Pierre de Bèze, 630-1790 : son histoire au fil des jours, Dijon, Association bourguignonne des sociétés savantes, 1960, 323 p. · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

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

Abbaye Saint-Laumer de Blois

Blois (Loir-et-Cher) · diocese of Blois · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1627

The monks of Corbion, fleeing the Normans with the relics of Saint Laumer, settled at Blois and founded a monastery there in 924. Plundered by the Calvinists in 1568, the abbey was incorporated into the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1627; the Maurists rebuilt its buildings. Its abbatial mensa was united to the new bishopric of Blois. At the Revolution, the church became a parish church under the dedication of Saint Nicolas, and the monastery was assigned to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital.

The Maurist priors, 1627-1788
  1. 1627 Dom Georges Violle
  2. 1628 Dom Bernard Audebert
  3. 1630 Dom Thomas de Sainte-Marie
  4. 1633 Dom Charles de Malleville
  5. 1636 Dom Antoine Le Fort
  6. 1639 Dom Ambroise Louet
  7. 1642 Dom Maur Foloppe
  8. 1645 Dom Benoît Coquelin
  9. 1648 Dom Michel Prévost (adm.)
  10. 1651 Dom Gabriel Flambart
  11. 1654 Contin.
  12. 1657 Dom Placide Chouquet
  13. 1660 Contin.
  14. 1663 Dom Léon Dulorens
  15. 1666 Dom Jacques Hüe
  16. 1669 Contin.
  17. 1672 Dom Antoine Portail
  18. 1675 Dom Julien Raguideau
  19. 1678 Dom Anselme Claire
  20. 1681 Dom Antoine Durban
  21. 1684 Dom Jean des Roches
  22. 1687 Contin.
  23. 1690 Dom Charles de Rostaing
  24. 1693 Dom Nicolas Richebraque
  25. 1696 Dom Charles de Rostaing
  26. 1699 Contin.
  27. 1702 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  28. 1705 Contin.
  29. 1708 Dom Hubert Maillard
  30. 1711 Dom Jean Baillivet
  31. 1714 Contin.
  32. 1717 Dom Désiré Brillon
  33. 1720 Contin.
  34. 1723 Dom Jean Baillivet
  35. 1726 Contin.
  36. 1729 Dom François Godineau
  37. 1733 Contin.
  38. 1736 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  39. 1739 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  40. 1742 Dom Pierre Boucher
  41. 1745 Dom Pierre Lenfant
  42. 1748 Dom Antoine Rémi Amé
  43. 1751 Contin.
  44. 1754 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  45. 1757 Dom Jacques Baudry
  46. 1760 Dom Jean Jacques Vaudrey
  47. 1763 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  48. 1766 Dom Michel Fillol
  49. 1769 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  50. 1772 Dom Jean Pierre Archambault
  51. 1775 Dom Pierre Debon
  52. 1778 Dom Jean Claude Barbier
  53. 1781 Contin.
  54. 1783 Dom Pierre Motet
  55. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Bonnardot

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, t. I, Province ecclésiastique de Paris, 1905, notice « Saint-Laumer de Blois » (diocèse de Blois) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse de Blois) · POP Mérimée PA00098334, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Lomer, ou ancien Hôtel-Dieu · POP Mérimée PA00098343, Église Saint-Nicolas-Saint-Lomer · Inventaire général, dossier IA00141121 : abbaye de bénédictins et de mauristes Saint-Lomer, actuelle église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas, Blois · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Chalon-sur-Saône
The house today. Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône (Saône-et-Loire) · diocese of Chalon-sur-Saône · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1662

When their monastery outside the walls was destroyed to make way for a citadel, the monks settled inside the town. The abbey was united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1662; the Maurists rebuilt the house and raised the church of Saint-Pierre between 1698 and 1713. The abbey building now serves as a presbytery and as an annex of the town hall.

The Maurist priors, 1663-1788
  1. 1663 Dom François Hodeau
  2. 1666 Dom François Hodeau
  3. 1669 Dom Damien Raulin
  4. 1672 Dom François Hodeau
  5. 1675 Dom François Hodeau
  6. 1678 Dom Nicolas Chazé
  7. 1681 Dom Hugues Bérard
  8. 1684 Dom Jacques Gueau de Sainville
  9. 1687 Dom Gilles Chenille
  10. 1690 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  11. 1693 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  12. 1696 Dom Gabriel Péret
  13. 1699 Dom Gilbert Mongenet
  14. 1702 Dom Gilbert Mongenet
  15. 1705 Dom Etienne Sevin
  16. 1708 Dom Marien Claustrier
  17. 1711 Dom Marien Claustrier
  18. 1714 Dom Jean Baptiste Tiéblé
  19. 1717 Dom Pierre Gaubert
  20. 1720 Dom Pierre Gaubert
  21. 1723 Dom Joseph Suduyrand
  22. 1726 Dom Gérard Maillard
  23. 1729 Dom Gérard Maillard
  24. 1733 Dom Charles De Baculard
  25. 1736 Dom Pierre Charpentier
  26. 1739 Dom Constantin Pontier
  27. 1742 Dom Louis Philippe
  28. 1745 Dom François Esbrayat
  29. 1748 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  30. 1751 Dom François Esbrayat
  31. 1754 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  32. 1757 Dom Pierre Surget
  33. 1760 Dom François Romet
  34. 1763 Dom Edmond Baudelot
  35. 1766 Dom Edmond Baudelot
  36. 1769 Dom Edmond Baudelot
  37. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Pardessus
  38. 1775 Dom Hugues François Bernard
  39. 1778 Dom Thomas Arnoult
  40. 1781 Dom Thomas Arnoult
  41. 1783 Dom Jean Auguste Champagne
  42. 1788 Dom Jean Auguste Champagne

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 960-965 (Ecclesia Cabilonensis, S. Petrus) · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, p. 456-457 (Saint-Pierre de Châlons) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse de Chalon) · POP Mérimée PA00113147, Abbaye Saint-Pierre (ancienne) · POP Mérimée PA00113152, Église Saint-Pierre

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Léonard de Corbigny
The house today. Photo: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Léonard de Corbigny

Corbigny (Nièvre) · diocese of Autun · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1648

According to Dom Beaunier, Égil, abbot of Flavigny, built in the ninth century the abbey in which the relics of Saint Léonard were laid. The fathers of the Congregation of Saint-Maur were admitted there around 1648 under Abbot Armand de Bourbon, prince of Conti. The buildings were rebuilt from 1754 to the plans of the architect Michel Caristie. The whole, listed as a historic monument in 2001, now houses a cultural centre.

The Maurist priors, 1648-1788
  1. 1648 Dom Robert Berthier
  2. 1651 Contin.
  3. 1654 Dom Hilarion Moynel
  4. 1657 Contin.
  5. 1660 Dom Anselme Didier
  6. 1663 Contin.
  7. 1666 Dom Pierre Treille
  8. 1669 Contin.
  9. 1672 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  10. 1675 Contin.
  11. 1678 Dom Louis Janet
  12. 1681 Contin.
  13. 1684 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  14. 1687 Dom Charles Vigreux (adm.)
  15. 1690 Dom Gilles Chenille
  16. 1693 Contin.
  17. 1696 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  18. 1699 Dom Jacques Marcault
  19. 1702 Contin.
  20. 1705 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  21. 1708 Dom Jean Despierres
  22. 1711 Contin.
  23. 1714 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  24. 1717 Contin.
  25. 1720 Dom Nicolas Perche
  26. 1723 Dom Jacques Mosnier
  27. 1726 Contin.
  28. 1729 Dom François Esbrayat
  29. 1733 Dom Jacques Mosnier
  30. 1736 Dom Pierre Surget
  31. 1739 Contin.
  32. 1742 Dom Claude Crochet
  33. 1745 Contin.
  34. 1748 Dom Placide Boquet
  35. 1751 Contin.
  36. 1754 Dom Etienne Grasset
  37. 1757 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  38. 1760 Dom Charles de Corval
  39. 1763 Dom André Tomassu
  40. 1766 Dom Ch. Jean Pillé
  41. 1769 Dom Etienne Grasset
  42. 1772 Dom Pierre Cyr Jolly
  43. 1775 Dom Jean Marret
  44. 1778 Dom Vorlius Chaussier
  45. 1781 Dom Jean Claude Le Cauchois
  46. 1783 Dom Edmond Leclerc
  47. 1788 Dom Philippe Jacques Joseph Rousseau

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 476-479 (Corbiniacum) · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, p. 406 (Corbigny, diocèse d’Autun) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse d’Autun) · POP Mérimée PA00112861, Ancienne abbaye bénédictine Saint-Léonard

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Bénigne de Dijon
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Bénigne de Dijon
The house today. Photo: PRA, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Bénigne de Dijon

Dijon (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Dijon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1651

Built around the tomb of Saint Benignus, the abbey then belonged to the diocese of Langres. After long efforts by the grand prior François Quarré, an agreement was concluded with the Congregation of Saint-Maur on 22 July 1651, and the reformed monks were introduced on the following 18 November. Dom Plancher prepared his history of Burgundy there. The abbey church is now the cathedral of Dijon; a wing of the abbot’s palace houses the École nationale des beaux-arts.

The Maurist priors, 1654-1788
  1. 1654 Dom Anselme La Roque
  2. 1657 Dom Joseph Séguin
  3. 1660 Dom Joseph Séguin
  4. 1663 Dom Silvestre Petit
  5. 1666 Dom Silvestre Petit
  6. 1669 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  7. 1672 Dom Claude Bretagne
  8. 1675 Dom Claude Bretagne
  9. 1678 Dom Joseph Séguin
  10. 1681 Dom Joseph Séguin
  11. 1684 Dom Pierre Fresnay
  12. 1687 Dom Robert Marcland
  13. 1690 Dom Robert Marcland
  14. 1693 Dom Jacques Rémy
  15. 1696 Dom Placide Falgueyrat
  16. 1699 Dom Joseph Aubrée
  17. 1702 Dom Charles De Rostaing
  18. 1705 Dom Pierre Thibaut
  19. 1708 Dom Charles De Rostaing
  20. 1711 Dom Charles De Rostaing
  21. 1714 Dom Urbain Plancher
  22. 1717 Dom Urbain Plancher
  23. 1720 Dom François Obelin
  24. 1723 Dom Bernard Durand
  25. 1726 Dom Bernard Durand
  26. 1729 Dom Louis De Venois
  27. 1733 Dom Michel Graves
  28. 1736 Dom Claude Branché
  29. 1739 Dom François Esbrayat
  30. 1742 Dom François Esbrayat
  31. 1745 Dom J. Nicolas Chrestien
  32. 1748 Dom François Esbrayat
  33. 1751 Dom René Desmares
  34. 1754 Dom René Desmares
  35. 1757 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  36. 1760 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  37. 1763 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  38. 1766 Dom Hyacinthe Martinon
  39. 1769 Dom Edmond Michel
  40. 1772 Dom Edmond Michel
  41. 1775 Dom J. Nicolas Chrestien
  42. 1778 Dom J. Nicolas Chrestien
  43. 1781 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  44. 1783 Dom Edmond Baudelot
  45. 1788 Dom François Godard

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 694-695 · L. Chomton, Histoire de l’église Saint-Bénigne de Dijon, Dijon, 1900, ch. « Introduction de la réforme de Saint-Maur » · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, p. 430-431 (Saint-Bénigne, diocèse de Langres, « qui est réformée ») · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse de Dijon) · POP Mérimée PA00112249, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Bénigne · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Ferrières-en-Gâtinais

Ferrières-en-Gâtinais (Loiret) · diocese of Sens · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1633

In the Carolingian period the abbey had Alcuin, Saint Aldric and Lupus as abbots, and its schools were active. Restored by Abbot Louis de Blanchefort after the Hundred Years’ War, then plundered by the Huguenots, it was placed under the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1633. Our Lady of Bethlehem was venerated there. The abbey church is now a parish church, and the remains of the buildings house the town hall.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Sylvestre Perreciot
  2. 1642 Dom Etienne Daix
  3. 1654 Dom Victor Cottron
  4. 1657 Dom Lucien Lécuyer
  5. 1660 Dom Lucien Lécuyer
  6. 1663 Dom Placide Rasteau
  7. 1666 Dom Agathange Collot
  8. 1669 Dom Jean Marie Nacot
  9. 1672 Dom Lucien Lécuyer
  10. 1675 Dom Antoine Brugnard
  11. 1678 Dom Vincent Siroux
  12. 1681 Dom Vincent Siroux
  13. 1684 Dom Philippe Bastide
  14. 1687 Dom Jean Marie Nacot
  15. 1690 Dom Jean Tirel
  16. 1693 Dom Jean Tirel
  17. 1696 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  18. 1699 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  19. 1702 Dom Guillaume Bretagne
  20. 1705 Dom Denis Nageon
  21. 1708 Dom Denis Nageon
  22. 1711 Dom Urbain Plancher
  23. 1714 Dom Nicolas Saulnier
  24. 1717 Dom Nicolas Saulnier
  25. 1720 Dom Marien Cloistrier
  26. 1723 Dom Charles Vigreux
  27. 1726 Dom Noël Seurat
  28. 1729 Dom Marien Cloistrier
  29. 1733 Dom Jacques Peteau
  30. 1736 Dom Jacques Monnier
  31. 1739 Dom Jacques Monnier
  32. 1742 Dom Jacques Rolland Legal
  33. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Chrysostome Dufresneau
  34. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Chrysostome Dufresneau
  35. 1751 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  36. 1754 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  37. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Jolyot
  38. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Jolyot
  39. 1763 Dom Mathieu Barrot
  40. 1766 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  41. 1769 Dom Adrien Civet
  42. 1772 Dom Adrien Civet
  43. 1775 Dom Louis Deserié
  44. 1778 Dom Louis Deserié
  45. 1781 Dom François Joseph Hardy
  46. 1783 Dom Louis Groult
  47. 1788 Dom Edmond Leclerc

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, t. VI, Province ecclésiastique de Sens (AFM XV), 1913, p. 28-29 · POP Mérimée PA00098772, Ancienne abbaye · POP Mérimée PA00098775, Église abbatiale Saint-Pierre · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Flavigny

Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Autun · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1644

According to Dom Beaunier, Abbot Égil, who received the abbey from Charles the Bald, had the relics of Saint Reine brought there from Alise. By an agreement with the Congregation of Saint-Maur, the Maurists were introduced on 31 May 1644; Beaunier counts it as the seventy-eighth house united. Divided up at the Revolution, the site lost the greater part of its abbey church; the crypt of Saint Reine survives.

The Maurist priors, 1645-1788
  1. 1645 Dom Germain Espiat
  2. 1648 Dom Paul De Rivery
  3. 1651 Dom Prosper Petit
  4. 1654 Dom Antoine Lucet
  5. 1657 Dom Antoine Lucet
  6. 1660 Dom Hugues Couléon
  7. 1663 Dom Hugues Couléon
  8. 1666 Dom Athanase Dormay
  9. 1669 Dom Nicolas De La Salle
  10. 1672 Dom Nicolas De La Salle
  11. 1675 Dom Etienne Simonneau
  12. 1678 Dom François Boullefroy
  13. 1681 Dom François Boullefroy
  14. 1684 Dom Hugues Amiot
  15. 1687 Dom Hugues Amiot
  16. 1690 Dom Charles Vigreux
  17. 1693 Dom Jacques Marcault
  18. 1696 Dom Jacques Marcault
  19. 1699 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  20. 1702 Dom Guy Buisson
  21. 1705 Dom Jean Despierres
  22. 1708 Dom François Thomas
  23. 1711 Dom François Thomas
  24. 1714 Dom Marien Claustrier
  25. 1717 Dom Marien Claustrier
  26. 1720 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  27. 1723 Dom Claude Bertier
  28. 1726 Dom Jacques Peteau
  29. 1729 Dom Jacques Peteau
  30. 1733 Dom Jacques Boudeau
  31. 1736 Dom Nicolas Perche
  32. 1739 Dom Jean Gomeau
  33. 1745 Dom Pierre Surget
  34. 1748 Dom Pierre Surget
  35. 1751 Dom Pierre Surget
  36. 1754 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  37. 1757 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  38. 1760 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  39. 1763 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  40. 1766 Dom André Bompart Gasselin
  41. 1769 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  42. 1772 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  43. 1775 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  44. 1778 Dom Ch. Louis César Mestral
  45. 1781 Dom Ch. Louis César Mestral
  46. 1788 Dom Ch. Louis César Mestral

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, Paris, 1728, col. 464-465 · Beaunier, Recueil historique..., t. II, 1726, p. 407 (Flavigny, diocèse d’Autun) · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse d’Autun) · POP Mérimée PA00112454, Ancienne abbatiale Saint-Pierre de Flavigny · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Melun

Melun (Seine-et-Marne) · diocese of Sens · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1651-1654

The abbey of Saint-Pierre, known as Saint-Père, stood outside the town, on the slope that runs down to the Seine. Ruined during the Wars of Religion, it was offered several times to the Congregation of Saint-Maur. The commendatory abbot François Mallier du Houssay, bishop of Troyes, supported the coming of the Maurists, which was completed in 1654. The buildings raised around the cloister now house the prefecture of Seine-et-Marne.

The Maurist priors, 1657-1788
  1. 1657 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  2. 1660 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  3. 1663 Dom Damien Raulin
  4. 1666 Dom Damien Raulin
  5. 1669 Dom François Hodeau
  6. 1672 Dom Jean Des Roches
  7. 1675 Dom Jean Des Roches
  8. 1678 Dom Jacques De Lépine
  9. 1681 Dom Jacques De Lépine
  10. 1684 Dom Célestin Chotard
  11. 1687 Dom Louis Janet
  12. 1690 Dom Jacques Marsault
  13. 1693 Dom Jean Hélie
  14. 1696 Dom Charles Viriot
  15. 1699 Dom Gilles Chouart
  16. 1702 Dom Gilles Chouart
  17. 1705 Dom Gilles De Réméon
  18. 1708 Dom Gilles De Réméon
  19. 1711 Dom Claude Leleu
  20. 1714 Dom Urbain Trottier
  21. 1717 Dom Raymond Perbé
  22. 1720 Dom Raymond Perbé
  23. 1723 Dom Claude Sausé
  24. 1726 Dom Nicolas Perche
  25. 1729 Dom Gilbert Moreau
  26. 1733 Dom Placide Boquet
  27. 1736 Dom Gérard Maillard
  28. 1739 Dom Joseph Buchigné
  29. 1745 Dom Joseph Buchigné
  30. 1748 Dom Philippe Du Soulhier
  31. 1751 Dom Philippe Du Soulhier
  32. 1754 Dom Joseph Antoine Jourdain
  33. 1757 Dom Philippe Du Soulhier
  34. 1760 Dom Philippe Du Soulhier
  35. 1763 Dom Adrien Civet
  36. 1766 Dom François Clémence
  37. 1769 Dom François Clémence
  38. 1772 Dom François Clémence
  39. 1775 Dom Claude Henri Gazé
  40. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Progin
  41. 1781 Dom François Joseph Crétu
  42. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Progin
  43. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Progin

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. VI, Province ecclésiastique de Sens (AFM XV), 1913, p. 29-30 · Gallia christiana, t. XII, 1770, col. env. 176-177 (abbé XLIX François Mallier du Houssay) · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 79, 87, 160, 205-207, 316 · Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 (province de Bourgogne) · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00087095 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Molesme

Molesme (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Langres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1647-1648

The commendatory abbot Armand de Bourbon, prince of Conti, united the abbey of Notre-Dame de Molesme to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1647-1648. The claustral offices again became revocable charges, and the rebuilding of the monastery was undertaken. The Maurists put the charter archive in order: Dom Simon Briot kept it until his death in 1707. In 1791 two monks still lived there. Remains of the abbey survive, listed as historic monuments.

The Maurist priors, 1648-1788
  1. 1648 Dom Fulgence Alexandre
  2. 1651 Dom Robert Hérault
  3. 1654 Dom Robert Hérault
  4. 1657 Dom Placide Simonnet
  5. 1660 Dom François Chevrier
  6. 1663 Dom François Chevrier
  7. 1666 Dom Claude De Barrieu
  8. 1669 Dom Claude De Barrieu
  9. 1672 Dom Ildefonse Claire
  10. 1675 Dom Nicolas De La Salle
  11. 1678 Dom Nicolas De La Salle
  12. 1681 Dom Antoine Brugnard
  13. 1684 Dom Agathange Collot
  14. 1687 Dom Nicolas Richebraque
  15. 1690 Dom Nicolas Richebraque
  16. 1693 Dom Guy Buisson
  17. 1696 Dom Jean Tirel
  18. 1699 Dom Abraham Farin
  19. 1702 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  20. 1705 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  21. 1708 Dom Jean Baillivet
  22. 1711 Dom Gilbert Mongenet
  23. 1714 Dom Etienne Sevin
  24. 1717 Dom Etienne Sevin
  25. 1720 Dom Edmond Liger
  26. 1723 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  27. 1726 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  28. 1729 Dom François Bridon
  29. 1733 Dom René De Vallée
  30. 1736 Dom Léonard Le Texier
  31. 1739 Dom Léonard Le Texier
  32. 1745 Dom Placide Jacques Boquet
  33. 1748 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  34. 1751 Dom Maur. Arnaud Lapie
  35. 1754 Dom Maur. Arnaud Lapie
  36. 1757 Dom Hector Cornut
  37. 1760 Dom Hector Cornut
  38. 1763 Dom Jean Baptiste Jolyot
  39. 1766 Dom Jean Baptiste Jolyot
  40. 1769 Dom Jean Baptiste Jolyot
  41. 1772 Dom Jean Cortot
  42. 1775 Dom Gérard M. Landelle
  43. 1781 Dom Germain Gontard
  44. 1783 Dom Louis Garrelon
  45. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Pardessus

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.

SourcesJ. Laurent, Cartulaires de l’abbaye de Molesme, t. I (Introduction), Paris, 1907, p. 9, 12-16 · Gallia christiana, t. IV, 1728, col. 740-741 (abbé LI Armand de Conti) · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 58, 75, 165, 190 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00112545 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Molosmes
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Molosmes

Molosmes (Yonne) · diocese of Langres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1667

The abbey of Molosmes, placed under the patronage of Saint Peter but often called Saint-Martin, stood a league and a half from Tonnerre, in the diocese of Langres. The Congregation of Saint-Maur was introduced there on 23 June 1667; the monks then rebuilt the dormitory, the chapter house, the refectory and the cloister. A decree of the Council of 3 April 1767 ended conventual life there. The diets of the congregation nevertheless went on appointing priors there until 1788.

The Maurist priors, 1668-1788
  1. 1668 Dom Antoine Brugnard
  2. 1672 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  3. 1675 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  4. 1678 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  5. 1681 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  6. 1684 Dom Mathieu Mazillier
  7. 1687 Dom Mathieu Mazillier
  8. 1690 Dom Adrien Chanut
  9. 1693 Dom Adrien Evart
  10. 1696 Dom Charles Bagot
  11. 1699 Dom Jean Hélie
  12. 1702 Dom Laurent Joyeux
  13. 1705 Dom Jean Monsire
  14. 1708 Dom Jean Monsire
  15. 1711 Dom Charles Bagot
  16. 1714 Dom Gilles De Réméon
  17. 1717 Dom François Henry
  18. 1720 Dom Jacques Peteau
  19. 1723 Dom Jacques Peteau
  20. 1726 Dom Joseph Suduyrand
  21. 1729 Dom Gabriel Papillon
  22. 1733 Dom Philibert Valletat
  23. 1736 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  24. 1739 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Boucher
  25. 1742 Dom Pierre Surget
  26. 1745 Dom Charles De Corval
  27. 1748 Dom Charles De Corval
  28. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Chrysostome Dufresneau
  29. 1754 Dom Pierre Surget
  30. 1757 Dom Isaac Th. Reynier
  31. 1760 Dom André Denis De Chaugy
  32. 1763 Dom André Denis De Chaugy
  33. 1769 Dom Cl. François Robelet
  34. 1772 Dom Faustin De Leros
  35. 1775 Dom Pierre Cyr Jolly
  36. 1778 Dom Pierre François Patenaille
  37. 1781 Dom Antoine Goutelle
  38. 1783 Dom Pierre Savolle
  39. 1788 Dom Pierre Savolle

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, 1728, col. 716-717 (Molosmus) · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 78, 88, 279-280 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 et p. 116 (arrêt du Conseil du 3 avril 1767 supprimant la conventualité à Molosme) · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Jean de Réome
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Jean de Réome
The house today. Photo: Ibex73, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Jean de Réome

Moutiers-Saint-Jean (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Langres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1631-1636

The abbey of Saint-Jean de Réome bears the name of its founder, Abbot Jean, and of the nearby stream. Cardinal François de La Rochefoucauld, commendatory abbot, united it to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1631; Dom Germain Lespiat was its administrator in 1636. The choir and transept of the church were rebuilt in 1730, and the house from 1747. The church no longer exists; part of the buildings survives, listed as a historic monument.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Germain Espiat
  2. 1639 Dom Philippe Des Vignes
  3. 1642 Dom Fulgence Alexandre
  4. 1645 Dom Fulgence Alexandre
  5. 1648 Dom Anselme Dohin
  6. 1651 Dom Lucien Frion
  7. 1654 Dom Placide Chouquet
  8. 1657 Dom Robert Hérault
  9. 1660 Dom Robert Hérault
  10. 1663 Dom Lucien Lescuyer
  11. 1666 Dom Charles Boyer
  12. 1669 Dom Claude Salesses
  13. 1672 Dom Robert Nempde
  14. 1675 Dom Robert Nempde
  15. 1678 Dom Benoît Bugnie
  16. 1681 Dom Pierre Robert
  17. 1684 Dom Jean Tirel
  18. 1687 Dom Jean Tirel
  19. 1690 Dom Vincent Siroux
  20. 1693 Dom Vincent Siroux
  21. 1696 Dom Jean Baillivet
  22. 1699 Dom Jean Baillivet
  23. 1702 Dom Abraham Farin
  24. 1705 Dom Abraham Farin
  25. 1708 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  26. 1711 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  27. 1714 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  28. 1717 Dom Jacques Alamargot
  29. 1720 Dom Gabriel De La Codre
  30. 1723 Dom Noël Seurat
  31. 1726 Dom Jacques Deslandes
  32. 1729 Dom Noël Seurat
  33. 1733 Dom Noël Seurat
  34. 1736 Dom Raymond Perbé
  35. 1739 Dom Raymond Perbé
  36. 1742 Dom Claude Maur. Jourdain
  37. 1745 Dom Pierre Collinet
  38. 1748 Dom Pierre Collinet
  39. 1754 Dom Pierre Collinet
  40. 1757 Dom Pierre Collinet
  41. 1763 Dom Nicolas Lambelinot
  42. 1766 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  43. 1769 Dom Jean Baptiste Lardeur
  44. 1772 Dom Pierre Debon
  45. 1775 Dom Gabriel Martial Bavay
  46. 1778 Dom François Maur. Monet
  47. 1781 Dom Jean Fernet
  48. 1783 Dom François Maur. Monet
  49. 1788 Dom Gabriel Martial Bavay

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, 1728, col. env. 674-675 (Reomaus, abbé LXXVIII) · Courtépée et Béguillet, Description générale et particulière du duché de Bourgogne, t. V, 1780, p. 482-489 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 3-4, 154, 190-192, 257 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00112565 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, portail provenant de Moutiers-Saint-Jean, n° d’inventaire 32.147 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle d’Orléans
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle d’Orléans
The house today. Photo: Mazzhe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle d’Orléans

Orléans (Loiret) · diocese of Orléans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1653

Given by Bishop Manassès to the monks of Marmoutier, who made it a priory in 1149, the church passed to the Benedictines of Saint-Maur in 1653. They rebuilt the house from 1670 and opened to the public the library that Prousteau had bequeathed to them. Seized as national property, the monastery received the directory of the department in December 1790; it now houses the prefecture.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1663 P. S. G.
  2. 1666 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  3. 1669 Dom Edmond Nicolay
  4. 1672 Dom Agathange Collot
  5. 1675 Dom Jacques Audineau
  6. 1678 Dom Agathange Collot
  7. 1681 Dom Claude Estiennot
  8. 1684 Dom Julien Bourgonnière
  9. 1687 Contin.
  10. 1690 Dom Michel Valleix
  11. 1693 Dom Robert Marcland
  12. 1696 Dom Marin Bourgoin
  13. 1699 Dom Guillaume Bretagne
  14. 1702 Dom Dominique Le Roy
  15. 1705 Contin.
  16. 1708 P. S. G.
  17. 1711 Dom Pierre Dubiez
  18. 1714 Contin.
  19. 1717 Dom Charles Vigreux
  20. 1720 Dom Jacques de la Porte
  21. 1723 Dom François Bridon
  22. 1726 Dom Désiré Brillon
  23. 1729 Dom Jacques Monier
  24. 1733 Dom Jean-Baptiste Orion
  25. 1736 Dom Charles Bacular
  26. 1739 Dom Placide Le Gault
  27. 1742 Dom René Busson
  28. 1745 Dom Vincent Marcland
  29. 1748 Dom Nicolas Dautempuy
  30. 1751 Contin.
  31. 1754 P. S. G.
  32. 1757 Dom Claude-Maur. Jourdain
  33. 1760 Contin.
  34. 1763 Dom Edmond-Marie Michel
  35. 1766 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  36. 1769 Dom Jean-Claude Barbier
  37. 1772 Contin.
  38. 1775 Dom Louis Chastenay de la Brunetière
  39. 1778 Dom Pierre Bonamour
  40. 1781 Contin.
  41. 1783 Dom Louis Chastenay de la Brunetière
  42. 1788 Dom Louis Chastenay de la Brunetière

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, t. I, Province ecclésiastique de Paris, 1905, notice « Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle, à Orléans » · Besse, t. I (AFM IV, Introduction), p. 18 : les Mauristes « fondèrent deux prieurés, Bonne-Nouvelle, à Orléans, et La Daurade, à Toulouse » · Lecestre 1902, p. 16 (province de Bourgogne, diocèse d’Orléans) · POP Mérimée PA45000024, Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame de Bonne-Nouvelle, actuellement préfecture de région · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Notre-Dame de Pontlevoy

Pontlevoy (Loir-et-Cher) · diocese of Blois · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1631

The Benedictines of Saint-Maur introduced their observance at the abbey of Notre-Dame de Pontlevoy in 1631. They opened a college there, which remained in operation until the Revolution, and the congregation kept a seminary there for its young monks. The conventual buildings were rebuilt from 1663. The abbatial mensa was united to the bishopric of Blois. The college chapel and the abbey buildings are listed as historic monuments.

The Maurist priors, 1633-1788
  1. 1633 Dom Antoine Lefort
  2. 1636 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  3. 1639 Dom Antoine Lefort
  4. 1642 Dom Antoine Lefort
  5. 1645 Dom Valéry Parent
  6. 1648 Dom Placide Hamelin
  7. 1651 Dom Placide Hamelin
  8. 1654 Dom Colomban Le Fay
  9. 1657 Dom Anselme Claire
  10. 1660 Dom Lucien Frion
  11. 1663 Dom Lucien Frion
  12. 1666 Dom Barthélémy Du Nouhaud
  13. 1669 Dom Jean Baptiste Houssaye
  14. 1672 Dom Jean Baptiste Houssaye
  15. 1675 Dom Louis Faveret
  16. 1678 Dom Pierre Robert
  17. 1681 Dom Martin Fillaud
  18. 1684 Dom Pierre Robert
  19. 1687 Dom Pierre Robert
  20. 1690 Dom Alexandre Duval
  21. 1693 Dom Guillaume Bretagne
  22. 1696 Dom Guillaume Bretagne
  23. 1699 Dom Marin Bourguin
  24. 1702 Dom Marin Bourguin
  25. 1705 Dom Gilbert Maugenet
  26. 1708 Dom Nicolas De Guyenne
  27. 1711 Dom Gilles Didon
  28. 1714 Dom François Thomas
  29. 1717 Dom François Thomas
  30. 1720 Dom Hugues Cadier
  31. 1723 Dom François Chazal
  32. 1726 Dom François Chazal
  33. 1729 Dom Marc Le Vaillant
  34. 1733 Dom Marc Le Vaillant
  35. 1736 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  36. 1739 Dom François Godineau
  37. 1742 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  38. 1745 Dom René Desmares
  39. 1748 Dom René Desmares
  40. 1751 Dom Antoine Georges Duhamel
  41. 1754 Dom Antoine Georges Duhamel
  42. 1760 Dom Antoine Georges Duhamel
  43. 1763 Dom Luc Chastenay de La Brunetière
  44. 1766 Dom Luc Chastenay de La Brunetière
  45. 1769 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  46. 1772 Dom Victor De Fougeras
  47. 1775 Dom Victor De Fougeras
  48. 1778 Dom Pierre François Laly
  49. 1781 Dom Pierre François Laly
  50. 1783 Dom Alphonse Jean-Baptiste Marquet
  51. 1788 Dom Alphonse Jean-Baptiste Marquet

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. I, Province ecclésiastique de Paris, 1905, p. 185-186 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 154, 191, 311 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00098544 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Benoît de Fleury

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (Loiret) · diocese of Orléans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1627

The abbey of Fleury kept the body of Saint Benedict, brought from Monte Cassino according to the tradition reported by Beaunier-Besse. Plundered by the Huguenots during the Wars of Religion, it received the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1627 and was its twentieth house. The Revolution dispersed the monks, and the monastic buildings disappeared. The abbey church, which was preserved, has been listed as a historic monument since 1840.

The Maurist priors, 1627-1788
  1. 1627 Dom Guillaume Gérard
  2. 1628 Dom Georges Violle
  3. 1630 Dom Georges Violle
  4. 1633 Dom Augustin Reneuve
  5. 1636 Dom Joachim Le Comtat
  6. 1639 Dom Pierre Lucas
  7. 1642 Dom Pierre Lucas
  8. 1645 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  9. 1648 Dom Timothée Bourgeois
  10. 1651 Dom Charles Rasteau
  11. 1654 Dom Grégoire Verthamont
  12. 1657 Dom Grégoire Verthamont
  13. 1660 Dom Boniface Le Tam
  14. 1663 Dom Agathange Collot
  15. 1666 Dom Anselme Claire
  16. 1669 Dom Antoine Lucet
  17. 1672 Dom Vincent Siroux
  18. 1675 Dom Vincent Siroux
  19. 1678 Dom Pierre Fresnay
  20. 1681 Dom Pierre Fresnay
  21. 1684 Dom Placide Falgueyrat
  22. 1687 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  23. 1690 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  24. 1693 Dom Jean De Saint-Léger
  25. 1696 Dom Jean De Saint-Léger
  26. 1699 Dom Denis Nageon
  27. 1702 Dom Denis Nageon
  28. 1705 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  29. 1708 Dom Julien Doyte
  30. 1711 Dom Marin Bourgoin
  31. 1714 Dom Marin Bourgoin
  32. 1717 Dom François Chazal
  33. 1720 Dom François Chazal
  34. 1723 Dom Désiré Brillon
  35. 1726 Dom François Bridon
  36. 1729 Dom Jean Baptiste Magnin
  37. 1733 Dom Léonard Letessier
  38. 1736 Dom Jean Baptiste Sarrazin
  39. 1739 Dom Charles De Baculard
  40. 1742 Dom Charles De Baculard
  41. 1745 Dom Jean Gomeau
  42. 1748 Dom Jean Gomeau
  43. 1751 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  44. 1754 Dom Philippe Dusoulier
  45. 1757 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  46. 1760 Dom Maurice De Hautot
  47. 1763 Dom Louis Joseph Dumesnil
  48. 1766 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Texier
  49. 1769 Dom Thomas Mathieu
  50. 1772 Dom Jean Jacques Thomas
  51. 1775 Dom Edmond Marie Michel
  52. 1778 Dom François Godard
  53. 1781 Dom Cl. Joseph Martenne
  54. 1783 Dom Nicolas Marie Thérèse Joliclerc
  55. 1788 Dom René 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.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés de l’ancienne France, t. I, Province ecclésiastique de Paris, 1905, p. 345-347 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 91 et 94 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 190 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00098999 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye de Saint-Calais

Saint-Calais (Sarthe) · diocese of Le Mans · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1659

The abbey of Saint-Calais keeps the name of the hermit Karilef. Plundered by the English in 1424, then by the Calvinists in 1562, it was largely in ruins around 1650, when the abbot offered it to the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which put off its answer. The Maurists entered it in 1659. According to Beaunier-Besse, the abbot’s lodging was later assigned to the municipal services and the church became a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Damien Raulin
  2. 1663 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  3. 1666 Dom Joseph Des Ormes
  4. 1669 Dom Ildefonse Claire
  5. 1672 Dom Nicolas Chazé
  6. 1675 Dom Nicolas Chazé
  7. 1678 Dom Jean Lancesseur
  8. 1681 Dom Jean Lancesseur
  9. 1684 Dom Alexandre Duval
  10. 1687 Dom Alexandre Duval
  11. 1690 Dom Hugues Amiot
  12. 1693 Dom Hugues Amiot
  13. 1696 Dom Gilles Chenille
  14. 1699 Dom Gilles Chenille
  15. 1702 Dom Louis Magnin
  16. 1705 Dom Nazaire Chamereau
  17. 1708 Dom Nazaire Chamereau
  18. 1711 Dom Denis Nageon
  19. 1714 Dom Bertrand Gobert
  20. 1717 Dom Hugues Cadier
  21. 1720 Dom François Godineau
  22. 1723 Dom Marien Claustrier
  23. 1726 Dom Marien Claustrier
  24. 1729 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  25. 1733 Dom Joseph Gautot
  26. 1736 Dom Joseph Jantot
  27. 1739 Dom Claude Branché
  28. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Chrysostome Dufresneau
  29. 1745 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  30. 1748 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  31. 1751 Dom Jean Baptiste Régnier
  32. 1754 Dom Jean Baptiste Régnier
  33. 1757 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Texier
  34. 1763 Dom Jean Baptiste Le Texier
  35. 1766 Dom Adrien Civet
  36. 1769 Dom Pierre Camille Badin
  37. 1772 Dom Mathieu Barrot
  38. 1775 Dom Pierre Jacques Prudhomme
  39. 1778 Dom Pierre Camille Badin
  40. 1781 Dom Pierre Camille Badin
  41. 1783 Dom Louis Bodineau
  42. 1788 Dom Cyprien Joly

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 (AFM XIX), 1920, p. 152-153 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 160 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 93 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Sainte-Colombe-lès-Sens
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Sainte-Colombe-lès-Sens
The house today. Photo: François GOGLINS, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Sainte-Colombe-lès-Sens

Saint-Denis-lès-Sens (Yonne) · diocese of Sens · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

The abbey of Sainte-Colombe rose near Sens over the tomb of the martyr of Sens; tradition attributes its foundation to King Chlothar II. It joined the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît in 1580, and the monks of Saint-Maur took possession of it in July 1636. Sold as national property on 30 December 1790, it then served as a quarry, and the church disappeared. The gateway, the dovecote and the refectory remain.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Augustin Reneuve
  2. 1639 Dom Philibert Tesson
  3. 1642 Dom Valéry Parent
  4. 1645 Dom Maur Foloppe
  5. 1648 Dom Malachie Morel
  6. 1651 Dom Séverin De Lanchy
  7. 1654 Dom Martin Poitevin
  8. 1657 Dom Martin Poitevin
  9. 1660 Dom Joseph Desormes
  10. 1663 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  11. 1666 Dom Cyprien Beaugard
  12. 1669 Dom Cyprien Beaugard
  13. 1672 Dom Pierre Robert
  14. 1675 Dom Joseph Bouret
  15. 1678 Dom Louis Faveret
  16. 1681 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  17. 1684 Dom Robert Marchand
  18. 1687 Dom Jean De Saint-Léger
  19. 1690 Dom Jean De Saint-Léger
  20. 1693 Dom Pierre Piolin
  21. 1696 Dom Pierre Piolin
  22. 1699 Dom Laurent Joyeux
  23. 1702 Dom Guillaume Camuset
  24. 1705 Dom Urbain Plancher
  25. 1708 Dom Urbain Plancher
  26. 1711 Dom Nazaire Chamereau
  27. 1714 Dom Edmond Liger
  28. 1717 Dom Edmond Liger
  29. 1720 Dom Claude Colombat
  30. 1723 Dom Claude Colombat
  31. 1729 Dom Pierre Marie Lelièvre
  32. 1733 Dom Nicolas Perche
  33. 1736 Dom Joseph Buchigné
  34. 1739 Dom Claude Maur. Jourdain
  35. 1742 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  36. 1745 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  37. 1751 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  38. 1754 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  39. 1760 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  40. 1763 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  41. 1766 Dom Pierre Bonamour
  42. 1769 Dom Jean Pierre Archambault
  43. 1772 Dom Antoine Goutelle
  44. 1775 Dom Claude Dubuisson
  45. 1778 Dom Claude Dubuisson
  46. 1781 Dom Charles Villé
  47. 1783 Dom Claude Dubuisson
  48. 1788 Dom Claude Dubuisson

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. 94 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 16 · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, t. VI (province de Sens), AFM 15, p. 23-24 · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. II, p. 96-97, 121 · Brullée, Histoire de l’abbaye royale de Sainte-Colombe-lez-Sens, Sens, 1852, p. 165-176 · POP Mérimée PA00113809, abbaye Sainte-Colombe (ancienne) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye de Saint-Seine
The house today. Photo: GO69, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de Saint-Seine

Saint-Seine-l’Abbaye (Côte-d’Or) · diocese of Dijon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1648

The abbey of Saint-Seine belonged to the diocese of Langres, then to that of Dijon after 1731. Its commendatory abbot, Armand de Bourbon, prince of Conti, came to terms with the Congregation of Saint-Maur on 14 September 1647, and the abbey entered the congregation in 1648. The Gallia christiana notes that it then slowly recovered, within as well as without. The abbey church, owned by the municipality, has been listed as a historic monument since 1862.

The Maurist priors, 1648-1788
  1. 1648 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  2. 1651 Dom Anselme De La Roque
  3. 1654 Dom Robert Berthier
  4. 1657 Dom Robert Berthier
  5. 1660 Dom Claude Du Barieu
  6. 1663 Dom Claude Du Barieu
  7. 1666 Dom Nicolas De La Salle
  8. 1669 Dom Anselme Claire
  9. 1672 Dom Antoine Brugnard
  10. 1675 Dom Célestin Chotard
  11. 1678 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  12. 1681 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  13. 1684 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  14. 1687 Dom François Chevillon
  15. 1690 Dom François Chevillon
  16. 1693 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  17. 1696 Dom Jean Zacharie Bouquin
  18. 1699 Dom Jean Despierres
  19. 1702 Dom Jean Despierres
  20. 1705 Dom Antoine Magnin
  21. 1708 Dom Abraham Farin
  22. 1711 Dom Hugues Cadier
  23. 1714 Dom Guy Buisson
  24. 1717 Dom Jean Baptiste Magnin
  25. 1723 Dom Jean Mercelot
  26. 1726 Dom François Lée
  27. 1729 Dom André Rigault
  28. 1733 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  29. 1736 Dom Michel Gravet
  30. 1742 Dom Pierre Jacques Prudhomme
  31. 1745 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  32. 1748 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  33. 1751 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  34. 1754 Dom Claude Moreau
  35. 1757 Dom Nicolas Lambertinot
  36. 1760 Dom Michel Fillol
  37. 1763 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  38. 1766 Dom Nicolas Masson
  39. 1769 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  40. 1772 Dom Jean Auguste Champagne
  41. 1775 Dom André Gasselin
  42. 1778 Dom François Forneron
  43. 1781 Dom François Forneron
  44. 1783 Dom Edmond Michel
  45. 1788 Dom Jean-Pierre Rapould

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, 1728, col. 696-697 et 702-703 (S. Sequanus) · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 60, 75 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00112640

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre-le-Vif de Sens
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.

Abbaye Saint-Pierre-le-Vif de Sens

Sens (Yonne) · diocese of Sens · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1638-1639

The abbey of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif stood outside the walls of Sens. Archbishop Octave de Bellegarde decreed the reform there on 3 April 1638 and united to it the conventual mensa of Saint-Remi; the Maurists took possession of the monastery on 9 April 1639. Dom Hugues Mathoud, prior from 1657, pursued his scholarly work there. Sold as national property in 1791, the abbey was demolished and the church razed.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1651 Dom Isidore Gueully
  2. 1654 Dom Isidore Gueully
  3. 1657 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  4. 1660 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  5. 1663 Dom Joseph Desormes
  6. 1666 Dom Hugues Mathoud
  7. 1669 Dom Agathange Collot
  8. 1672 Dom Antoine Lucet
  9. 1675 Dom Louis Janet
  10. 1678 Dom Antoine Brugnard
  11. 1681 Dom Jean Marie Nacot
  12. 1684 Dom Jean Marie Nacot
  13. 1687 Dom Gilles Henriau
  14. 1690 Dom Gilles Henriau
  15. 1693 Dom Laurent Joyeux
  16. 1696 Dom Laurent Joyeux
  17. 1699 Dom Pierre Piolin
  18. 1702 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  19. 1705 Dom Léonard Darfeuille
  20. 1708 Dom Charles Bagot
  21. 1711 Dom Noël Sevrat
  22. 1714 Dom Noël Sevrat
  23. 1717 Dom Bertrand Gobert
  24. 1720 Dom Charles Vigreux
  25. 1723 Dom Placide Boquet
  26. 1726 Dom Placide Boquet
  27. 1729 Dom René Vallée
  28. 1733 Dom Paul Auguste Navault
  29. 1736 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  30. 1739 Dom Gaspard Laporte
  31. 1742 Dom François Ramet
  32. 1745 Dom François Ramet
  33. 1751 Dom François Ramet
  34. 1754 Dom François Ramet
  35. 1760 Dom Philippe Conié de Montigny
  36. 1763 Dom Hector Canut
  37. 1766 Dom Germain Gontard
  38. 1769 Dom Germain Gontard
  39. 1772 Dom Jean Jacques Flosceau
  40. 1775 Dom Jean Auguste Champagne
  41. 1778 Dom Jean Charles Pillé
  42. 1781 Dom Edmond Marie Michel
  43. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Pardessus
  44. 1788 Dom Joachim Brunet

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.

SourcesAbbé H. Bouvier, Histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif de Sens, Auxerre, 1891, p. 162-168, 181-182 · Gallia christiana, t. XII, 1770, col. env. 145 (abbé LXVIII Jean-François Berruyer) · Beaunier-Besse, t. VI, Province ecclésiastique de Sens (AFM XV), 1913, p. 35 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 190, 306 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Michel de Tonnerre

Tonnerre (Yonne) · diocese of Langres · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1666

The abbey of Saint-Michel stood on the summit of the hill that overlooks Tonnerre and kept the body of Saint Thierry, bishop of Orléans. In 1653 the Congregation of Saint-Maur refused to let it go to the Feuillants, because it wished to settle there itself. Its abbot, Jacques de Souvré, grand prior of France, united it to the congregation in 1666. It was sold as national property; of the medieval buildings only two vaulted rooms survive.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 Dom Fulgence De Chabannes
  2. 1672 Dom Jean De Saint-Léger
  3. 1675 Dom Martin De Liesme
  4. 1678 Dom Louis Lorin
  5. 1681 Dom Nicolas Chasey
  6. 1684 Dom Louis Janet
  7. 1687 Dom François Puisant
  8. 1690 Dom François Puisant
  9. 1693 Dom Charles Viriot
  10. 1696 Dom Jean Hélie
  11. 1699 Dom Charles Bagot
  12. 1702 Dom Charles Bagot
  13. 1705 Dom Jean Baptiste Sauvat
  14. 1708 Dom Jacques Peteau
  15. 1711 Dom François Dardanne
  16. 1714 Dom François Dardanne
  17. 1717 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  18. 1720 Dom Ed. Damoiseau
  19. 1723 Dom Jacques Des Landes
  20. 1726 Dom René Vallée
  21. 1729 Dom René Jean Le Pape
  22. 1733 Dom Jean Baptiste Varin
  23. 1736 Dom Philippe Valtat
  24. 1739 Dom J. François Xavier Jantot
  25. 1742 Dom Raymond Perbé
  26. 1745 Dom Raymond Perbé
  27. 1748 Dom Claude Crochet
  28. 1751 Dom Toussaint Roussel
  29. 1754 Dom Guillaume De Launay
  30. 1757 Dom Nicolas Dautempuy
  31. 1760 Dom Nicolas Dautempuy
  32. 1763 Dom Adrien Ponchet
  33. 1766 Dom Pierre Savolle
  34. 1769 Dom Charles François Xavier Joutet
  35. 1772 Dom André Bompart Gasselin
  36. 1775 Dom Vorlius Chaussier
  37. 1778 Dom Gérard M. Landelle
  38. 1781 Dom Hector Canut
  39. 1783 Dom Claude François Mortier
  40. 1788 Dom Pierre Debon

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.

SourcesGallia christiana, t. IV, 1728, col. 712-717 (S. Michael Tornodorensis, abbé XLIV Jacques de Souvré) · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 279-280 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · Tonnerre Patrimoine, L’abbaye Saint-Michel · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye de la Trinité de Vendôme
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye de la Trinité de Vendôme
The house today. Photo: Camcamcab, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de la Trinité de Vendôme

Vendôme (Loir-et-Cher) · diocese of Blois · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1621

The abbey of La Trinité de Vendôme, at first a member of the Congregation of the Exempts, was joined in 1621 to the Congregation of Saint-Maur, which held its first general chapters there. The Revolution dispersed the monks; the buildings were sold in 1791, the church became a parish church and the monastery served as barracks. The church, the bell tower and the cloister have been listed as historic monuments since 1840.

The Maurist priors, 1622-1788
  1. 1622 Dom Martin Tesnière
  2. 1623 Dom Martin Tesnière
  3. 1624 Dom Thomas Baudry
  4. 1625 Dom Thomas Baudry
  5. 1626 Dom Thomas Baudry
  6. 1627 Dom Thomas Baudry
  7. 1628 Dom Placide De Sarcus
  8. 1630 Dom Placide De Sarcus
  9. 1633 Dom Antoine Potier
  10. 1636 Dom Lucien Frion
  11. 1639 Dom Paul De Rivery
  12. 1642 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  13. 1645 Dom Gabriel Théroude
  14. 1648 Dom Vincent Marsolles
  15. 1651 Dom Vincent Marsolles
  16. 1654 Dom François Ducher
  17. 1657 Dom François Ducher
  18. 1660 Dom Silvestre Morel
  19. 1663 Dom François Aubert
  20. 1666 Dom François Aubert
  21. 1669 Dom Pierre Danet
  22. 1672 Dom Pierre Danet
  23. 1675 Dom François Douay
  24. 1678 Dom François Douay
  25. 1681 Dom Gilles Blondeau
  26. 1684 Dom Gilles Blondeau
  27. 1687 Dom Mathieu Gilbert
  28. 1690 Dom Jacques Haudard
  29. 1693 Dom Augustin Collet
  30. 1696 Dom Augustin Collet
  31. 1699 Dom Jean Baptiste Guyon
  32. 1702 Dom Jean Baptiste Guyon
  33. 1705 Dom Michel Housset
  34. 1708 Dom Michel Housset
  35. 1711 Dom François L’Héritier
  36. 1714 Dom François L’Héritier
  37. 1717 Dom Nicostrate Bara
  38. 1720 Dom Jean Baptiste Tiéblé
  39. 1723 Dom François Godineau
  40. 1726 Dom François Godineau
  41. 1729 Dom Dominique Lacoste
  42. 1733 Dom Pierre Boucher
  43. 1736 Dom Pierre Boucher
  44. 1739 Dom Charles Chapus
  45. 1742 Dom Charles Chapus
  46. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Reynier
  47. 1748 Dom Jean Baptiste Reynier
  48. 1751 Dom Jean Pierre Archambault
  49. 1754 Dom Etienne Nadal
  50. 1757 Dom M. Antoine Joseph Geoffroy De Villeblanche
  51. 1760 Dom Nicolas De Lambelinot
  52. 1763 Dom Jean Claude Barbier
  53. 1766 Dom Edmond Marie Michel
  54. 1769 Dom Jean Jacques Flosceau
  55. 1772 Dom Zacharie Merle
  56. 1775 Dom Jean Jacques Flosceau
  57. 1778 Dom Edmond Marie Le Clerc
  58. 1781 Dom Pierre Jacques Prudhomme
  59. 1783 Dom Pierre Cyr Jolly
  60. 1788 Dom François Perrenet

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. I, Province ecclésiastique de Paris, 1905, p. 175-177 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 91 et 94 · Les Mémoires du R. P. dom Bernard Audebert (AFM XI), 1911, p. 154 · Lecestre, 1902, p. 16 · POP Mérimée PA00098633 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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