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The Maurist houses of the province of Chezal-Benoît

Twenty-eight abbeys and priories, and one college, from Berry and Poitou to Auvergne and the Forez.

The province of Chezal-Benoît took its name from an abbey in Berry, reformed at the end of the fifteenth century and become the head of a congregation which Saint-Sulpice of Bourges, Saint-Allyre of Clermont and other houses joined; that congregation was united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1636. The province reached from Poitou and Saintonge to Auvergne, through Berry, the Limousin, Périgord and Quercy. 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 college of Thoissey does not appear in dom Besse’s list of the provinces; whether it belonged to this one remains to be confirmed. The lists of priors follow dom Charvin; that of Saint-Maixent follows Alfred Richard.

The province on the map

Mas-GarnierHouses of the province of Chezal-Benoît

The houses

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

Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Bassac

Bassac (Charente) · diocese of Saintes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1666

Placed under the patronage of Saint Stephen, the abbey is attested at the beginning of the eleventh century. It suffered in the Hundred Years’ War and then from Protestant plundering between 1564 and 1569. The monks of Saint-Maur settled there in 1666 and restored the place until the middle of the eighteenth century. Sold as national property at the Revolution, the abbey lost its cloister in 1820; the church remains a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1669-1788
  1. 1669 P. S. G.
  2. 1672 P. S. G.
  3. 1675 Dom Etienne Roulleau
  4. 1678 Contin.
  5. 1681 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  6. 1684 Contin.
  7. 1687 Dom Léonard de Massiot
  8. 1690 Dom Etienne Goron
  9. 1693 Contin.
  10. 1696 Dom Jacques Cybot
  11. 1699 Contin.
  12. 1702 Dom Jean Guerrier
  13. 1705 Dom Vincent Marcland
  14. 1708 Dom Joseph Croisier
  15. 1711 Dom Antoine Palerne
  16. 1714 Dom Jacques de Crespat
  17. 1717 Contin.
  18. 1720 Dom Jean Baptiste Puyfauvel
  19. 1723 Contin.
  20. 1726 Dom Eutrope Maréchal
  21. 1729 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  22. 1733 Dom Jean Lamy
  23. 1736 Dom Philippe Raffier
  24. 1739 Dom Jean Baptiste Puyfauvel
  25. 1742 Dom François Perbé
  26. 1745 Dom Antoine Trablaine
  27. 1748 Contin.
  28. 1751 Dom Victor de Fougeras
  29. 1754 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  30. 1757 Dom Léger Lefèvre
  31. 1760 Dom Charles Lancelot
  32. 1763 Dom Maur Roux
  33. 1766 Contin.
  34. 1769 Dom Charles Lancelot
  35. 1772 Dom Michel André Labbat
  36. 1775 Dom François Paul Jesseaume
  37. 1778 Dom André Vimal
  38. 1781 Contin.
  39. 1783 Dom François Lacombe de Sainte-Marie
  40. 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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Saintes, p. 286 · POP/Mérimée PA00104242, ancienne abbaye Saint-Étienne · Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l’Aunis, t. XXIII, p. 320-322 ; J. Denise, « L’abbaye royale de Saint-Étienne de Bassac », Bulletin et mémoires de la Société archéologique et historique de la Charente, 1879, p. 54-60 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Beaulieu

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (Corrèze) · diocese of Limoges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1663

Raoul de Turenne, archbishop of Bourges, founded the abbey under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul; Beaunier-Besse dates it to 840. In the eleventh century it adopted the customs of Cluny, then suffered in the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of Religion. It was united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1663. The Romanesque church, with its carved portal, is a parish church; the chapter house also remains.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  2. 1669 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  3. 1672 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  4. 1675 Dom Claude De Benaud
  5. 1678 Dom Charles Poirier
  6. 1681 Dom Maur Dupont
  7. 1684 Dom Maur Dupont
  8. 1687 Dom Antoine Clapasson
  9. 1690 Dom Antoine Clapasson
  10. 1693 Dom Barthélémy Gérentes
  11. 1696 Dom Marcellin Pinel
  12. 1699 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  13. 1702 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  14. 1705 Dom Benoît Daurelle
  15. 1708 Dom Jean Baptiste Mallouet
  16. 1711 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  17. 1714 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  18. 1717 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  19. 1720 Dom François Michelet
  20. 1723 Dom François Michelet
  21. 1726 Dom Armand Vaslet
  22. 1729 Dom Jean Lamy
  23. 1733 Dom Armand Marchadieux
  24. 1736 Dom Louis Palerne
  25. 1739 Dom Martial De Laurent
  26. 1742 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  27. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  28. 1748 Dom Bruno Leyssène
  29. 1751 Dom Léger Lefaivre
  30. 1754 Dom Etienne Perrot
  31. 1757 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  32. 1760 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  33. 1763 Dom Charles Lancelot
  34. 1766 Dom Charles Auguste Isnard
  35. 1769 Dom Jacques Chardes
  36. 1772 Dom Pierre Ardent
  37. 1775 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  38. 1778 Dom Alexis Durand
  39. 1781 Dom Jean Baptiste Labiche
  40. 1783 Dom François De Mathieu
  41. 1788 Dom Jacques Chapuis

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. V (AFM vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Limoges, p. 194-195 · POP/Mérimée PA00099667, Ancienne abbaye, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne · Maximin Deloche, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Beaulieu (en Limousin), Paris, 1859, p. CCXCIX-CCC ; Bulletin de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze, t. IX, 1887, p. 215 · Monasticon Gallicanum, source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF

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

Abbaye Saint-Sulpice de Bourges

Bourges (Cher) · diocese of Bourges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

In the middle of the seventh century, Bishop Sulpice had a basilica raised for his burial, and a monastery is attested there after his death. The abbey joined the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît in 1497, then that of Saint-Maur in 1636. Ruined by the Protestants in 1562, it was rebuilt by the Maurists from 1702. There remain the gateway, the infirmary pavilion and some remains of the church.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Bernard Audebert
  2. 1639 Dom Bernard Audebert
  3. 1642 Dom Albert De Maubreuil
  4. 1645 Dom Albert De Maubreuil
  5. 1648 Dom Grégoire De Verthamond
  6. 1651 Dom Joseph Séguin
  7. 1654 Dom Joseph Séguin
  8. 1657 Dom Placide Rasteau
  9. 1660 Dom Placide Rasteau
  10. 1663 Dom Germain Claveau
  11. 1666 Dom Germain Claveau
  12. 1669 Dom Charles Le Boyer
  13. 1672 Dom Charles Le Boyer
  14. 1675 Dom Louis Trochon
  15. 1678 Dom Louis Trochon
  16. 1681 Dom Jacques De Nesde
  17. 1684 Dom Jacques De Nesde
  18. 1687 Dom Jean Blénié
  19. 1690 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  20. 1693 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  21. 1696 Dom Jean Des Roches
  22. 1699 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  23. 1702 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  24. 1705 Dom Charles Conrade
  25. 1708 Dom Charles Conrade
  26. 1711 Dom François Anceaume
  27. 1714 Dom Charles Conrade
  28. 1717 Dom Pierre Dubiez
  29. 1720 Dom Pierre Dubiez
  30. 1723 Dom Antoine Chassaing
  31. 1726 Dom Antoine Chassaing
  32. 1729 Dom Charles Conrade
  33. 1733 Dom Charles Conrade
  34. 1736 Dom Vincent Marcland
  35. 1739 Dom Vincent Marcland
  36. 1742 Dom Guillaume De Launay
  37. 1745 Dom Guillaume De Launay
  38. 1748 Dom Vincent Marcland
  39. 1751 Dom Vincent Marcland
  40. 1754 Dom J. Chevalier
  41. 1757 Dom J. Chevalier
  42. 1760 Dom Léger Lefaivre
  43. 1763 Dom Etienne Perrot
  44. 1766 Dom Jean Astruc
  45. 1769 Dom Jean Astruc
  46. 1772 Dom Jean Astruc
  47. 1775 Dom Jacques Haudiquier
  48. 1778 Dom Jean Astruc
  49. 1781 Dom Jean Astruc
  50. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Labiche
  51. 1788 Dom Jean Astruc

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. V (AFM vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Bourges, p. 20-22 · POP/Mérimée PA00096672, Abbaye de Saint-Sulpice située enclos des Bénédictins · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Brantôme

Brantôme en Périgord (Dordogne) · diocese of Périgueux · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

The abbey, placed under the patronage of the apostles Peter and Paul, appears in the sources at the beginning of the ninth century; the traditions that trace it back to Charlemagne are not established. Tried by the Hundred Years’ War, it had as commendatory abbot Pierre de Bourdeille, known as Brantôme. United to Saint-Maur in 1636, it saw its residence rebuilt in the eighteenth century. Closed at the Revolution, it now houses municipal services.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Marc Bastide
  2. 1639 Dom Humbert Jamet
  3. 1642 Contin.
  4. 1645 Dom André Faye
  5. 1648 Dom Gérard Pinet
  6. 1651 Contin.
  7. 1654 Dom Benoît Raby
  8. 1657 Contin.
  9. 1660 Dom Louis Janet
  10. 1663 Dom Placide Hamelin
  11. 1666 Contin.
  12. 1669 Dom Barthélémy du Nouhaud
  13. 1672 Dom Benoît Rodolphe Cibelle
  14. 1675 Dom Gabriel Bellordeau
  15. 1678 Dom Pierre Treille
  16. 1681 Contin.
  17. 1684 Dom Gilbert de la Porte
  18. 1687 Contin.
  19. 1690 Dom François Redon
  20. 1693 Contin.
  21. 1696 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  22. 1699 Contin.
  23. 1702 Dom Maur Marcland
  24. 1705 Contin.
  25. 1708 Dom François Chazal
  26. 1711 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  27. 1714 Dom Gilbert Maugenet
  28. 1717 Contin.
  29. 1720 Dom Antoine Chassaing
  30. 1723 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  31. 1726 Dom François Michelet
  32. 1729 Dom Jacques de la Codre
  33. 1733 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  34. 1736 Dom Jacques Royer
  35. 1739 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  36. 1742 Contin.
  37. 1745 Dom Martial Croisier
  38. 1748 Contin.
  39. 1751 Dom François Fonjaudran
  40. 1754 Dom Pierre Carementran
  41. 1757 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  42. 1760 Dom Antoine Durand
  43. 1763 Dom Pierre Carementran
  44. 1766 Dom Louis Rambaud
  45. 1769 Contin.
  46. 1772 Contin.
  47. 1775 Dom Philippe Castaigne
  48. 1778 Dom Jean Momet
  49. 1781 Dom Philippe Castaigne
  50. 1783 Dom Alexandre Sigean
  51. 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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Périgueux, p. 200-201 · POP/Mérimée PA00082403, Ancienne abbaye · Association Les Amis de Brantôme · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Marcellin de Chanteuges
The house today. Photo: MOSSOT, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Marcellin de Chanteuges

Chanteuges (Haute-Loire) · diocese of Saint-Flour · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1667

The monastery of Saint-Marcellin at Chanteuges, on a rocky spur, was founded in 936 by Cunibert, provost of Brioude, and placed under La Chaise-Dieu in 1136, according to Beaunier-Besse. On 5 November 1667 the prior of La Chaise-Dieu sent two of his monks of Saint-Maur there to maintain the divine office. In 1768 the house counted only three monks. The cloister and the chapel of Saint-Nectaire partly survive.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1754 Dom François De Brie
  2. 1757 Dom François De Brie
  3. 1760 Dom Math. Gérentet
  4. 1763 Dom Math. Gérentet

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. 94 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 17 · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, t. V (province de Bourges), AFM 14, p. 277 · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. IV, p. 233-234 · POP Mérimée PA00092645, prieuré de Chanteuges

Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Chezal-Benoît
The house today. Photo: MOSSOT, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Chezal-Benoît

Chezal-Benoît (Cher) · diocese of Bourges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

Benedictine abbey under the patronage of Saint Peter, whose church was consecrated in 1096 according to Beaunier-Besse. Reformed at the end of the fifteenth century, it became the head of a congregation that bore its name and brought together several abbeys, among them Saint-Sulpice de Bourges and Saint-Allyre de Clermont. This congregation was united to that of Saint-Maur in the seventeenth century (1636 according to Beaunier-Besse). Of the abbey church the nave remains, now a parish church; the eighteenth-century buildings house a hospital.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Antoine Potier
  2. 1639 Dom Anselme Des Rousseaux
  3. 1642 Dom Maur Tassin
  4. 1645 Dom Humbert Jamet
  5. 1648 Dom Humbert Jamet
  6. 1651 Dom Michel Pirou
  7. 1654 Dom Michel Pirou
  8. 1657 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  9. 1660 Dom Placide Hamelin
  10. 1663 Dom Louis Jamet
  11. 1666 Dom Louis Jamet
  12. 1669 Dom Antoine Savy
  13. 1672 Dom François Monclar
  14. 1675 Dom Dieudonné Buisson
  15. 1678 Dom Jean Villatel
  16. 1681 Dom Jean Villatel
  17. 1684 Dom Jean Blénié
  18. 1687 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  19. 1690 Dom Gilbert Laporte
  20. 1693 Dom Gilbert Laporte
  21. 1696 Dom Maur Marcland
  22. 1699 Dom Maur Marcland
  23. 1702 Dom Augustin Collet
  24. 1705 Dom Marcellin Pinet
  25. 1708 Dom Mathurin Trenchant
  26. 1711 Dom Guy Buisson
  27. 1714 Dom Nicolas Lasne
  28. 1717 Dom Nicolas Lasne
  29. 1720 Dom Philippe Raffier
  30. 1723 Dom Martial Croisier
  31. 1726 Dom André Gardez
  32. 1729 Dom Armand Vaslet
  33. 1733 Dom Eutrope Maréchal
  34. 1736 Dom André Bérault
  35. 1739 Dom Etienne Vernet
  36. 1742 Dom Jacques Mourier
  37. 1745 Dom Charles Dubosc
  38. 1748 Dom Léonard Brunier
  39. 1751 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  40. 1754 Dom Pierre Peynet
  41. 1757 Dom François Henry
  42. 1760 Dom François Henry
  43. 1763 Dom Pierre Peynet
  44. 1766 Dom Pierre Valeton
  45. 1769 Dom Jean Jeanlacoste
  46. 1772 Dom Léonard Lausade
  47. 1775 Dom Julien Dedieu
  48. 1778 Dom Pierre Lemaire
  49. 1781 Dom Pierre Lemaire
  50. 1783 Dom Félix Joseph Martin Rodouan
  51. 1788 Dom Lemagne

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. V, Province de Bourges (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 24-25 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV, 1906), p. 94 (province de Chezal-Benoît) et récit des unions (1636) · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 17 : 9 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00096772 (classement 1908, inscriptions 1937 et 1994) · Gallia christiana II, col. 162-168

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

Abbaye Saint-Allyre de Clermont

Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) · diocese of Clermont · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1636

Benedictine abbey of the suburb that bears its name, formed around the tomb of Bishop Saint Allyre. Attached in 1511 to the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît, it passed to that of Saint-Maur in 1636. Sold as national property in 1791, it was largely demolished; the Ursulines settled in the enclosure in 1807. The surviving remains are listed as a historic monument.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom Gérard Des Alleux
  2. 1639 Dom Cyprien Richard
  3. 1642 Dom Pierre Victor Maréchal
  4. 1645 Dom Jean Baptiste Moully
  5. 1648 Dom Jean Baptiste Moully
  6. 1651 Dom Martial Des Forges
  7. 1654 Dom Martial Des Forges
  8. 1657 Dom Gabriel Flambart
  9. 1660 Dom Geoffroy Mommole
  10. 1663 Dom Silvestre Morel
  11. 1666 Dom Silvestre Morel
  12. 1669 Dom François Aubert
  13. 1672 Dom Germain Claveau
  14. 1675 Dom Germain Claveau
  15. 1678 Dom Robert Marcland
  16. 1681 Dom Robert Marcland
  17. 1684 Dom André Genest
  18. 1687 Dom André Genest
  19. 1690 Dom Silvestre Morel
  20. 1693 Dom Silvestre Morel
  21. 1696 Dom François Redon
  22. 1699 Dom Jean Des Roches
  23. 1702 Dom Jean Des Roches
  24. 1705 Dom Joseph Lachaud
  25. 1708 Dom Joseph Lachaud
  26. 1711 Dom Nicolas Vignolles
  27. 1714 Dom Nicolas Vignolles
  28. 1717 Dom Maur Marcland
  29. 1720 Dom Maur Marcland
  30. 1723 Dom Léonard Brunet
  31. 1726 Dom Philippe Raffier
  32. 1729 Dom Philippe Raffier
  33. 1733 Dom Vincent Marcland
  34. 1736 Dom Léonard Brunier
  35. 1739 Dom Bonaventure Aubert
  36. 1742 Dom Bonaventure Aubert
  37. 1745 Dom François Perbé
  38. 1748 Dom Joseph Charcot
  39. 1751 Dom Théodore Bannière
  40. 1754 Dom Léger Le Faivre
  41. 1757 Dom Jacques De Rotz
  42. 1760 Dom Vincent Marcland
  43. 1763 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  44. 1766 Dom Antoine Bompart
  45. 1769 Dom Antoine Bompart
  46. 1772 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  47. 1775 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  48. 1778 Dom Jacques Chapuis
  49. 1781 Dom Sébastien Desbouis
  50. 1783 Dom Jean Jarrier
  51. 1788 Dom Antoine Bompart

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 de collectivité Abbaye Saint-Allyre (1636-1790) · BnF, notice de collectivité Abbaye Saint-Allyre (1511-1636) · Beaunier-Besse, t. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 97-99 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 15 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00092484 (inscription 31 décembre 1996) · Gallia christiana II, col. 323-327 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Austremoine d’Issoire

Issoire (Puy-de-Dôme) · diocese of Clermont · Congregation of Saint-Maur: c. 1665

The abbey kept the tomb of Saint Austremoine; Beaunier-Besse says it was restored in the tenth century by monks from Charroux, and its abbot was lord of the town. In the seventeenth century it passed into the Congregation of Saint-Maur. The Romanesque church, classified as a historic monument in 1840, keeps carved and painted capitals; it now serves as the parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1666-1788
  1. 1666 Dom Damien Lherminier
  2. 1669 Contin.
  3. 1672 Dom Anselme Didier
  4. 1675 Dom Jean Damascène Couderc
  5. 1678 Contin.
  6. 1681 Dom Jean Blénié (adm.)
  7. 1684 Dom Claude de Benaud
  8. 1687 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  9. 1690 Contin.
  10. 1693 Dom Jean Alabat (adm.)
  11. 1696 Dom Léon d’Hère
  12. 1699 Dom Etienne Champeaux
  13. 1702 Contin.
  14. 1705 Dom Antoine Vaslet (adm.)
  15. 1708 Dom Antoine Chassaing
  16. 1711 Contin.
  17. 1714 Dom Jacques la Codre
  18. 1717 Contin.
  19. 1720 Dom Joseph Malvergne
  20. 1723 Contin.
  21. 1726 Dom Jean Lamy
  22. 1729 Dom Jacques Royer
  23. 1733 Contin.
  24. 1736 Dom Claude Mallet
  25. 1739 Dom Jean Midy
  26. 1742 P. S. G.
  27. 1745 Dom Léger Le Faivre
  28. 1748 Contin.
  29. 1751 Dom François Perbé
  30. 1754 Dom Amable Ferrière
  31. 1757 Contin.
  32. 1760 Dom Pierre Laffiteau
  33. 1763 Contin.
  34. 1766 Dom Jacques Joseph Delotz
  35. 1769 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  36. 1772 Dom Jacques de Mathieu
  37. 1775 Contin.
  38. 1778 Dom Joseph Courtois
  39. 1781 Dom Jean Menut
  40. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Bohet
  41. 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. V (AFM vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Clermont, p. 100 · POP/Mérimée PA00092139, Église Saint-Austremoine, Issoire (classée 1840) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Robert de La Chaise-Dieu
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Robert de La Chaise-Dieu
The house today. Photo: Jean-Pol Grandmont, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Robert de La Chaise-Dieu

La Chaise-Dieu (Haute-Loire) · diocese of Clermont · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1640

The monastery took shape around Robert de Turlande and his companions, about 1046, and became the head of a wide network of priories in Auvergne and beyond. Pope Clement VI, who had been a monk there, had the church rebuilt in the fourteenth century and chose it for his burial. Richelieu, commendatory abbot, brought in the monks of Saint-Maur in 1640; they added new conventual buildings in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The abbey church now serves as the parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1640-1788
  1. 1640 Dom Pierre Victor Mareschal
  2. 1642 Dom Albert Marchand
  3. 1645 Contin.
  4. 1648 Dom André Faye
  5. 1651 Dom Jean Bapt. Mouly
  6. 1654 Contin.
  7. 1657 Dom Mayeul Hazon
  8. 1660 Contin.
  9. 1663 Dom Bruno Vallès
  10. 1666 Dom André Lisbeuf
  11. 1669 Contin.
  12. 1672 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  13. 1675 Dom Antoine Lucet
  14. 1678 Dom Gabriel Bellordeau
  15. 1681 Dom Charles Le Bouyer
  16. 1684 Dom Guillaume Camuzet
  17. 1687 Dom Claude Hémin
  18. 1690 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  19. 1693 Dom Paul Lacaze
  20. 1696 Dom Gabriel Dudan
  21. 1699 Dom Magloire Loz
  22. 1702 Dom Joseph Lachaud
  23. 1705 Dom Guy Buisson
  24. 1708 Contin.
  25. 1711 Dom André Lefebvre
  26. 1714 Dom Charles Conrade
  27. 1717 Dom Philippe Raffier
  28. 1720 Dom Denis Gaudard
  29. 1723 Dom Nicolas Vignoles
  30. 1726 Dom Jean Puyfauvel
  31. 1729 Dom Léonard Brunier
  32. 1733 Contin.
  33. 1736 Dom Guillaume de Launay
  34. 1739 Dom Léonard Brunier
  35. 1742 Dom Mathurin Lefresne
  36. 1745 Dom Jacques Peynnet
  37. 1748 Dom César Arribat
  38. 1751 Dom Léonard Brunier
  39. 1754 Dom Victor de Fougeras
  40. 1757 Dom Paul Castel
  41. 1760 Dom Jacques Bellet
  42. 1763 Dom Fr. Gabriel Buer
  43. 1766 Dom Etienne Perrot
  44. 1769 Contin.
  45. 1772 Dom Jacques Bellet
  46. 1775 Dom M. André Labat
  47. 1778 Contin.
  48. 1781 Dom Jean Jarrier
  49. 1783 Dom Fr. Gabriel Buer
  50. 1788 Dom Pierre Terrasse

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. V (Archives de la France monastique, vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Clermont, p. 100-103 · POP/Mérimée PA00092633, Ancienne abbaye de la Chaise-Dieu · POP/Mérimée PA00092635, Église abbatiale Saint-Robert (classée 1840) · Revue du Lyonnais, 5e série, t. XVII, Lyon, 1894, p. 67 · Alain Erlande-Brandenburg, La Chaise-Dieu, Rennes, Ouest-France, 1995, 32 p. · Abbaye de La Chaise-Dieu (site de l’abbaye et des associations) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Abbaye Saint-Augustin de Limoges (Saint-Augustin-lès-Limoges)

Limoges (Haute-Vienne) · diocese of Limoges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1618

Benedictine abbey whose origin Beaunier-Besse attributes to Bishop Turpion, in the tenth century. In 1613 its abbot Jean Regnaud called in monks of the reform of Saint-Vanne; the community was thus among the founding houses of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. The commendam was abolished there in 1627. The church and buildings have disappeared; at the beginning of the twentieth century a surviving part served as a barracks and the railway station occupied a portion of the former enclosure.

The Maurist priors, 1618-1788
  1. 1618 Dom Colomban Régnier
  2. 1621 Dom Maur Dupont
  3. 1622 Dom Maur Dupont
  4. 1623 Dom Maur Dupont
  5. 1624 Dom Maur Dupont
  6. 1625 Dom Maur Dupont
  7. 1626 Dom Maur Dupont
  8. 1627 Dom Martin Tesnière
  9. 1628 Dom Maur Dupont
  10. 1630 Dom Gérard Des Alleux
  11. 1633 Dom Gérard Des Alleux
  12. 1636 Dom Martial Des Forges
  13. 1639 Dom Marc Bastide
  14. 1642 Dom Marc Bastide
  15. 1645 Dom Philibert Nitot
  16. 1648 Dom Philibert Nitot
  17. 1651 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  18. 1654 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  19. 1657 Dom Philibert Nitot
  20. 1660 Dom Placide Roussel
  21. 1663 Dom Joseph Séguin
  22. 1666 Dom Joseph Séguin
  23. 1669 Dom Germain Claveau
  24. 1672 Dom François Aubert
  25. 1675 Dom François Aubert
  26. 1678 Dom Claude Hémin
  27. 1681 Dom Claude Hémin
  28. 1684 Dom Silvestre Morel
  29. 1687 Dom Silvestre Morel
  30. 1690 Dom Claude Hémin
  31. 1693 Dom Claude Hémin
  32. 1696 Dom Silvestre Morel
  33. 1699 Dom Augustin Collet
  34. 1702 Dom François Redon
  35. 1705 Dom François Redon
  36. 1708 Dom Maur Marcland
  37. 1711 Dom Maur Marcland
  38. 1714 Dom Blaise Vignolle
  39. 1717 Dom Jean Baptiste Floyrac
  40. 1720 Dom Jacques De Crespat
  41. 1723 Dom Maur Marcland
  42. 1726 Dom Léonard Brunier
  43. 1729 Dom François Michelet
  44. 1733 Dom Gabriel Legal
  45. 1736 Dom François Perbé
  46. 1739 Dom François Perbé
  47. 1742 Dom Léonard Brunier
  48. 1745 Dom Léonard Brunier
  49. 1748 Dom Théodore Bannière
  50. 1751 Dom J. Chevalier
  51. 1754 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  52. 1757 Dom Pierre Peynet
  53. 1760 Dom Paul Castel
  54. 1763 Dom Léger Lefaivre
  55. 1766 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  56. 1769 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  57. 1772 Dom François Gabriel Buer
  58. 1775 Dom Jean Jarrier
  59. 1778 Dom Sébastien Desbouis
  60. 1781 Dom François Gabriel Buer
  61. 1783 Dom Michel Philippe Castaigne
  62. 1788 Dom Jean Bapt. Poncet

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. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 189-190 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV, 1906), récit de la réforme de 1613 et de la fondation de 1618 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 10 religieux en 1768 · Gallia christiana II, col. 575-582

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

Prieuré Saint-Jouin de Mauléon

Mauléon (Deux-Sèvres) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: date not established

The priory of Saint-Jouin at Mauléon (formerly Châtillon-sur-Sèvre) depended on the abbey of Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes; its church, rebuilt at the end of the fifteenth century, also served as a parish church. In the eighteenth century the Congregation of Saint-Maur kept a small community there, which the list of 1768 counted among the houses marked for suppression. It should not be confused with the abbey of La Trinité at Mauléon, held by canons regular. The church and the former prior’s lodging are now listed as historic monuments.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1754 Dom Joseph Junien
  2. 1757 Dom Pierre Carementran
  3. 1760 Dom Jean Baptiste Prévost
  4. 1763 Dom Joseph Junien

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.

SourcesL. Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 17 · Monument historique, PA79000031 (manoir de Saint-Jouin) · Historic monument, PA00101258

Present-day photograph: Monastère Saint-Pierre de Mauriac
The house today. Photo: Pymouss, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Monastère Saint-Pierre de Mauriac

Mauriac (Cantal) · diocese of Clermont · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1627-1666

The monastery of Mauriac depended on Saint-Pierre-le-Vif of Sens, which traced its origin to Saint Theodechilde; its superiors bore the title of deans. The reform of Saint-Maur was introduced there in stages between 1627 and 1666. Sold in lots at the Revolution, the complex lost its church in 1826. There remain the chapter house, one walk of the cloister and the sacristy.

The Maurist priors, 1636-1788
  1. 1636 Dom André Paye
  2. 1639 Contin.
  3. 1642 Dom Robert Le Vallée (adm.)
  4. 1645 Dom Boniface Le Tam (adm.)
  5. 1648 Dom Rurice Gotereau
  6. 1651 Contin.
  7. 1654 Dom Auremund Rougier
  8. 1657 Contin.
  9. 1660 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  10. 1663 Contin.
  11. 1666 Dom Martial Deschamps
  12. 1669 Contin.
  13. 1672 Dom Charles Thierry (adm.)
  14. 1675 Dom Pierre Treille
  15. 1678 Dom Léonard de Massiot (adm.)
  16. 1681 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  17. 1684 Dom Jean Guilhon (adm.)
  18. 1687 Dom Antoine Bourdeix
  19. 1690 Dom Louis Laudrière
  20. 1693 Contin.
  21. 1696 Dom Gilbert La Porte
  22. 1699 Contin.
  23. 1702 Dom Joachim Gérentes
  24. 1705 Dom Louis Landrieu
  25. 1708 Dom Claude Donian
  26. 1711 Dom Jacques de Crespat
  27. 1714 Dom Benoît Petit
  28. 1717 Dom Armand Vaslet (adm.)
  29. 1720 Dom Joseph David
  30. 1723 Contin.
  31. 1726 Dom Jean Brunier
  32. 1729 Dom Etienne Vernet
  33. 1733 Dom Antoine Laval
  34. 1736 Dom Jean Clément
  35. 1739 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  36. 1742 Dom Junien Rubault
  37. 1745 Dom Robert Chaptard
  38. 1748 Dom Jean Joseph Astanières
  39. 1751 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  40. 1754 Contin.
  41. 1757 Dom Joseph Courtois
  42. 1760 Dom Jean Pierre Archambault
  43. 1763 Dom Marc Antoine Bochetal
  44. 1766 Dom Jean Pierre Archambault
  45. 1769 Dom Jacques Nicolas Dobremel
  46. 1772 Dom François Paul Jesseaume
  47. 1775 Dom Jacques Piscis
  48. 1778 Contin.
  49. 1781 Dom Alexandre Précieux
  50. 1783 Dom Georges Valette
  51. 1788 Dom Etienne Amable Contamine

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. V (AFM vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Clermont, p. 112-113 (avec bibliographie : Rouffy, Mém. acad. Clermont, XXXV, 1862) · POP/Mérimée PA00093545, Ancien monastère Saint-Pierre · Nouveau supplément à l’Histoire littéraire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. I, Paris, 1908 ; « Journal de voyage de Dom Jacques Boyer », éd. J.-B. Poulbrière, Bulletin de la Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze, t. IX, Tulle, 1887, p. 217

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

Abbaye Saint-André de Meymac

Meymac (Corrèze) · diocese of Limoges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1669

The monastery was established about 1085 by Archambaud, viscount of Comborn, beside an older church, and was first entrusted to the abbey of Uzerche; it became an abbey in the following century. After the Congregation of the Exempts and a period in the Order of Cluny, it was united to Saint-Maur in 1669; the monks rebuilt the buildings between 1679 and 1689. At the Revolution, the house served as a barracks before being sold in lots. The church is a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1672-1788
  1. 1672 Dom Claude de Benaud (adm.)
  2. 1675 Dom Adrien de Rely
  3. 1678 Contin.
  4. 1681 Dom Léger Chadebert (adm.)
  5. 1684 Dom Jacques Fayolle
  6. 1687 Contin.
  7. 1690 Dom Jean Raffler
  8. 1693 P. S. G.
  9. 1696 Dom Jean Raffler
  10. 1699 Dom Benoît Daurelle
  11. 1702 Contin.
  12. 1705 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  13. 1708 Contin.
  14. 1711 Dom Joseph Malvergne
  15. 1714 Contin.
  16. 1717 Dom Antoine Palerne
  17. 1720 Contin.
  18. 1723 Dom Florent Bourgnon
  19. 1726 Contin.
  20. 1729 Dom Jean Marie Palerme (adm.)
  21. 1733 Dom Pierre Liotard (adm.)
  22. 1736 Dom Jean Bapt. Suduyreau
  23. 1739 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  24. 1742 Dom Bruno Leyssène
  25. 1745 Dom Léonard Duclou
  26. 1748 Dom Jacques Chevalier
  27. 1751 Dom Simon Thorel
  28. 1754 Contin.
  29. 1757 Dom Jean Martinet
  30. 1760 Dom Jean Clément
  31. 1763 Dom Antoine Trablaine
  32. 1775 P. S. G.
  33. 1778 Dom Jean Bapt. Courtain
  34. 1781 Dom François Boutineau
  35. 1783 Dom Jean Bapt. Mauduit
  36. 1788 Dom Jean Bapt. Courtain

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. V (AFM vol. XIV, 1912), diocèse de Limoges, p. 196-197 · POP/Mérimée PA00099802, Ancienne abbaye Saint-André (inscrite 1983) · POP/Mérimée PA00099804, Église abbatiale Saint-André et Saint-Léger (classée 1840) · A. Leroux, C. Rivain et al., Inventaire sommaire des Archives départementales antérieures à 1790, Haute-Vienne, série G, Limoges, 1908, p. 66-67 · Jean-Marie Berland, Meymac et son abbaye, Tulle, Société des lettres, sciences et arts de la Corrèze, 1975, 77 p. (tiré à part du Bulletin) · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Prieuré Saint-Pierre de Mortagne

Mortagne-sur-Sèvre (Vendée) · diocese of La Rochelle · Congregation of Saint-Maur: date not established

The priory of Saint-Pierre de Mortagne depended on the abbey of Saint-Michel-en-l’Herm, itself united to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1669; it lay in the diocese of Maillezais, transferred to La Rochelle in 1648. The date of a Maurist establishment proper to the priory remains to be established. The former priory buildings now house the town hall.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1675 Dom Claude Cernay (adm.)
  2. 1678 P. S. G.
  3. 1714 Dom Antoine Chassain
  4. 1717 Contin.
  5. 1720 Dom Jacques de la Codre
  6. 1723 Contin.
  7. 1726 Dom Pierre Métayer
  8. 1729 Contin.
  9. 1733 Dom René Junien
  10. 1736 Dom David Chazal
  11. 1739 Contin.
  12. 1742 Dom André Hérault
  13. 1745 Contin.
  14. 1748 Dom Paul-Henri Train
  15. 1751 Dom Antoine Bochetal
  16. 1754 Dom Pierre Laffiteau
  17. 1757 Dom Antoine Ardaillon
  18. 1760 Contin.
  19. 1763 Dom François Henri
  20. 1766 Dom Jacques Nicolas Dobremel
  21. 1769 Dom Joseph Junien
  22. 1772 Dom Joseph Jarry
  23. 1775 Dom François de Mathieu
  24. 1778 Dom Joseph Mioche
  25. 1781 Contin.
  26. 1783 Dom Jean Bapt. Petit
  27. 1788 Contin.

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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de La Rochelle, p. 165 et n. 9 · POP/Mérimée PA00110172, Église, Mortagne-sur-Sèvre (classée 1906) · Nouveau supplément à l’Histoire littéraire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. I, Paris, 1908, p. 14

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

Abbaye Saint-Junien de Nouaillé

Nouaillé-Maupertuis (Vienne) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1618

In the eighth century the house depended on Saint-Hilaire de Poitiers; the relics of Saint Junien, abbot of Maire, were transferred there in 830. Supported by the Lusignan and the Mortemart, the abbey suffered in the Wars of Religion. It received very early the reform that came from Saint-Vanne and was one of the founding houses of the Congregation of Saint-Maur. The church is a parish church; claustral buildings and the fortified enclosure remain.

The Maurist priors, 1618-1788
  1. 1618 Dom Colomban Régnier
  2. 1620 Contin.
  3. 1621 Dom Martin Tesnière
  4. 1622 Dom Maur Tassin
  5. 1623 Dom Martin Ferrand
  6. 1624 Dom André Béthoulaud
  7. 1625 Contin.
  8. 1626 Dom André Béthoulaud
  9. 1627 Contin.
  10. 1628 Dom Grégoire Tarisse
  11. 1630 Dom Maur Tassin
  12. 1633 Dom Bernard Pattier
  13. 1636 Contin.
  14. 1639 Dom Eloi Belin (adm.)
  15. 1642 Dom Dorothée Girard
  16. 1645 Dom Romain Le Gault
  17. 1648 Dom Eugène Texier (adm.)
  18. 1651 Dom Paul de Rivery
  19. 1654 Dom François Chévrier
  20. 1657 Dom Etienne Demonts
  21. 1660 Dom François de Villemonteys
  22. 1663 Dom André Liabeuf (adm.)
  23. 1666 Dom Guillaume Sybille
  24. 1669 Dom Benoît Cibèle
  25. 1672 Dom Martial Deschamps
  26. 1675 Dom Germain Ferrand
  27. 1678 Dom Jacques de Nesde (adm.)
  28. 1681 Dom Claude Vidai
  29. 1684 Dom Laurent La Conque
  30. 1687 Contin.
  31. 1690 Dom Claude Vidai
  32. 1693 Dom René Drouynot (adm.)
  33. 1696 Dom Jean Navieres
  34. 1699 Contin.
  35. 1702 Dom Claude Vidai
  36. 1705 Contin.
  37. 1708 Dom Michel Valeix
  38. 1711 Dom François Michelet (adm.)
  39. 1714 Dom Joseph Croisier
  40. 1717 Dom André Gardés
  41. 1720 Contin.
  42. 1723 Dom Antoine Palerne
  43. 1726 Dom René Junien
  44. 1729 Contin.
  45. 1733 Dom Martial du Laurent
  46. 1736 Contin.
  47. 1739 Dom Robert Chaptard
  48. 1742 Contin.
  49. 1745 Dom Jean Midy
  50. 1748 Dom Antoine Durand
  51. 1751 Dom Charles de Corval
  52. 1754 Dom François Henry (adm.)
  53. 1757 Dom Jean Clément
  54. 1760 Dom Jacques Delotz
  55. 1763 Dom Jean Prévost du Latz
  56. 1766 Dom Jos. Marie Barrot
  57. 1769 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  58. 1772 Contin.
  59. 1775 Dom Jacques Chapuys
  60. 1778 Dom Jacques Brousse
  61. 1781 Contin.
  62. 1783 Dom Jean Bapt. Deperet
  63. 1788 Dom Claude Gilbert Bertucat

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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Poitiers, p. 231-232 · POP/Mérimée PA00105566, Abbaye (ancienne), Nouaillé-Maupertuis · L. Toke, Maurists, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 · « Les origines du monastère de Nouaillé », Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, t. LXXI, Paris, 1910, p. 241-242 ; Chronique de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, Archives historiques du Poitou, t. XVIII, Poitiers, 1887, p. 446 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye de Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes

Plaine-et-Vallées (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (Deux-Sèvres) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1655

Benedictine abbey of Upper Poitou, restored in 844 by the monks of Saint-Martin de Vertou according to Beaunier-Besse. It served as a stronghold during the Hundred Years’ War and the Wars of Religion. It was subjected to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in the middle of the seventeenth century (1655 according to Beaunier-Besse). In 1770 its abbatial revenue was united to the chapter of Saint-Florentin d’Amboise. The Romanesque church, now a parish church, is classified as a historic monument; of the monastery there remain the enclosure and some seventeenth-century remains.

The Maurist priors, 1657-1788
  1. 1657 Dom François Chevrier
  2. 1660 Dom Firmin De La Croix
  3. 1663 Dom Germain Friville
  4. 1666 Dom Bruno Vallès
  5. 1669 Dom Bruno Vallès
  6. 1672 Dom Jacques Baldit
  7. 1675 Dom Benoît Cybelle
  8. 1678 Dom Benoît Cybelle
  9. 1681 Dom François De Montclar
  10. 1684 Dom Germain Claveau
  11. 1687 Dom Michel Valeix
  12. 1690 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  13. 1693 Dom Léonard De Massiot
  14. 1696 Dom Charles Conrade
  15. 1699 Dom Charles Conrade
  16. 1702 Dom Magloire Loz
  17. 1705 Dom Gilles Chouart
  18. 1708 Dom Antoine Vaslet
  19. 1711 Dom Joseph Lachaud
  20. 1714 Dom Léonard Brunier
  21. 1717 Dom François Michelet
  22. 1720 Dom Gilbert Maugenet
  23. 1723 Dom Gilbert Maugenet
  24. 1726 Dom Pierre Vialle
  25. 1729 Dom Joseph David
  26. 1733 Dom François Fonjaudran
  27. 1736 Dom Gabriel Legal
  28. 1739 Dom Louis Philippe
  29. 1742 Dom Martial Croisier
  30. 1745 Dom Jacques Servant
  31. 1748 Dom Jean Midy
  32. 1751 Dom Jean Guillaume Taillard
  33. 1754 Dom Marc Antoine Bochetal
  34. 1757 Dom Marc Antoine Bochetal
  35. 1760 Dom Jacques Haudiquier
  36. 1763 Dom Jacques Haudiquier
  37. 1766 Dom Jacques Chardes
  38. 1769 Dom Charles Auguste Isnard
  39. 1772 Dom Michel Philippe Castaigne
  40. 1775 Dom Jean Astruc
  41. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Baudin
  42. 1781 Dom Mathurin Courreau
  43. 1783 Dom Alex. Thibaud Des Ferreux
  44. 1788 Dom Mathurin Courreau

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. III, Provinces d’Auch et de Bordeaux (AFM X, 1910), p. 232-233 · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, s.v. St-Jouin-de-Marnes · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 9 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00101340 (église classée 1862 ; ancien presbytère et parcelles inscrits 2017) · Gallia christiana II, col. 1273-1277 · Alfred Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, t. II, Archives historiques du Poitou, t. XVIII, Poitiers, 1886, p. 407, 413 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Saint-Cyprien de Poitiers

Poitiers (Vienne) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1645-1646

Benedictine abbey established outside the walls of Poitiers, on the bank of the Clain, in the ninth century according to Beaunier-Besse. Ravaged during the Wars of Religion, it entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur in the middle of the seventeenth century (1645 according to Beaunier-Besse, 1646 according to Cottineau). The church and the monastery were destroyed after the Revolution; a Dominican convent was later built on their site.

The Maurist priors, 1648-1788
  1. 1648 Dom Firmin De La Croix
  2. 1651 Dom Firmin De La Croix
  3. 1654 Dom Marc Ragot
  4. 1657 Dom Marc Ragot
  5. 1660 Dom Augustin De Prades
  6. 1663 Dom Augustin De Prades
  7. 1666 Dom Antoine Sainctoire
  8. 1669 Dom Boniface Le Tam
  9. 1672 Dom Michel Maillet
  10. 1675 Dom Charles Thierry
  11. 1678 Dom Germain Claveau
  12. 1681 Dom Germain Claveau
  13. 1684 Dom François De Montclar
  14. 1687 Dom François De Montclar
  15. 1690 Dom André Genest
  16. 1693 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  17. 1696 Dom Claude Vidal
  18. 1699 Dom Claude Vidal
  19. 1702 Dom Léonard De Massiot
  20. 1705 Dom Léonard De Massiot
  21. 1708 Dom Blaise Vignolle
  22. 1711 Dom Blaise Vignolle
  23. 1714 Dom Michel Valeix
  24. 1717 Dom Léonard Brunier
  25. 1720 Dom Léonard Brunier
  26. 1723 Dom Charles De Messac
  27. 1726 Dom Martial Croisier
  28. 1729 Dom Martial Croisier
  29. 1733 Dom Philippe Raffier
  30. 1736 Dom Martial Croisier
  31. 1739 Dom Martial Croisier
  32. 1742 Dom Joseph Charcot
  33. 1745 Dom Joseph Charcot
  34. 1748 Dom François Perbé
  35. 1751 Dom Jean Clément
  36. 1754 Dom Jean Clément
  37. 1757 Dom Antoine Durand
  38. 1760 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  39. 1763 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  40. 1766 Dom Pierre Caillhava
  41. 1769 Dom Jean Prévost du Las
  42. 1772 Dom Joseph Rivet
  43. 1775 Dom Michel André Labbat
  44. 1778 Dom Julien Dedieu
  45. 1781 Dom Silvestre Barthez
  46. 1783 Dom Joseph Jany
  47. 1788 Dom Félix Joseph Martin Rodouan

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. III, Provinces d’Auch et de Bordeaux (AFM X, 1910), p. 226-227 · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, col. 2308-2309 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 11 religieux en 1768 · Rédet, Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Cyprien de Poitiers, Archives historiques du Poitou III, 1874 · Gallia christiana II, col. 1230-1237 · Alfred Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, t. II, Archives historiques du Poitou, t. XVIII, Poitiers, 1886, p. 407 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Prieuré Saint-Michel-des-Anges de Saint-Angel
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Prieuré Saint-Michel-des-Anges de Saint-Angel
The house today. Photo: Phmadm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré Saint-Michel-des-Anges de Saint-Angel

Saint-Angel (Corrèze) · diocese of Limoges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1657

Priory dedicated to Saint Michael, dependent on the abbey of Charroux, in the north of Corrèze. Tried by the Hundred Years’ War and then by the Wars of Religion, it was entrusted in the middle of the seventeenth century to the Benedictines of Saint-Maur, who re-established a regular community there and restored the monastery. Beaunier-Besse dates to 1698 the gift of the priory to the congregation by the abbé de Bouillon, whereas the list of priors begins in 1666. The former priory church has become a parish church; it is classified as a historic monument, as are the chapter house, a tower and the conventual buildings.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1666 Dom Etienne Roulleau
  2. 1669 Dom Etienne Roulleau
  3. 1672 Dom Vincent Villemonteys
  4. 1675 Dom Vincent Villemonteys
  5. 1678 Dom Claude De Benaud
  6. 1681 Dom François Burin
  7. 1684 Dom François Burin
  8. 1690 Dom François Burin
  9. 1693 Dom François Burin
  10. 1696 Dom Martin Astier
  11. 1699 Dom Marcellin Pinet
  12. 1702 Dom Charles Adhenet
  13. 1705 Dom Jean Navières
  14. 1708 Dom Jean Navières
  15. 1711 Dom Claude Blanchet
  16. 1714 Dom Maur Raynal
  17. 1717 Dom Jean Baptiste Poncet
  18. 1720 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  19. 1723 Dom Jean Baptiste Suduyrand
  20. 1726 Dom Jean Daulne
  21. 1729 Dom Gabriel Chavepeyre
  22. 1733 Dom Pierre Lamothe
  23. 1736 Dom Jean Ribaud
  24. 1739 Dom Jean Ribaud
  25. 1742 Dom Pierre Bernard
  26. 1745 Dom Amable Ferrière
  27. 1748 Dom Léonard Bordes
  28. 1751 Dom Ignace Perbé
  29. 1754 Dom Gérard Frémont
  30. 1757 Dom Jacques Bellet
  31. 1760 Dom Pierre Carementran
  32. 1763 Dom Charles Auguste Isnard
  33. 1778 Dom François Boutineau
  34. 1781 Dom Charles Auguste Isnard
  35. 1783 Dom Charles Auguste Isnard
  36. 1788 Dom Jean Baptiste Mauduit

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.

SourcesCottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, s.v. St-Angel · BnF, notice de collectivité Prieuré Saint-Michel-des-Anges (Saint-Angel) · Beaunier-Besse, t. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 213 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 4 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00099838 (église classée 1840 ; salle capitulaire et tour 1919 ; bâtiments conventuels 2000) · Dom Laurent Dumas, Chronique du monastère de Saint-Pierre de Solignac, éd. A. Lecler, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin, t. XLV, Limoges, 1896, p. 188-189 ; « Le prieuré de Saint-Angel », Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de la Corrèze, t. VI, Brive, 1884, p. 410-416 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Prieuré (prévôté) de Saint-Benoît-du-Sault
The house today. Photo: lago17, public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré (prévôté) de Saint-Benoît-du-Sault

Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) · diocese of Bourges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1688

Priory of the abbey of Fleury-Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, established about 974-975 on a rocky spur above the valley of the Portefeuille. The Congregation of Saint-Maur re-established conventual life there at the end of the seventeenth century (1688 according to Beaunier-Besse) and rebuilt the monastic buildings between 1735 and 1742. The house was united to the seminary of the Foreign Missions in 1769; the diets of the congregation nevertheless went on appointing priors there until 1788. The church, now a parish church, and the buildings are classified as a historic monument.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1754 Dom Dulac Jacques Prévost
  2. 1757 Dom Joseph Junien
  3. 1760 Dom Joseph Junien
  4. 1763 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  5. 1781 Dom Charles Louis Domain
  6. 1783 Dom Placide Nicolas
  7. 1788 Dom Jacques Monginot

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. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 44-45 · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, s.v. St-Benoît-du-Sault · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 5 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00097446 (classement 21 octobre 2011)

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

Abbaye Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Jean-d’Angély

Saint-Jean-d’Angély (Charente-Maritime) · diocese of Saintes · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1623-1628

The abbey kept a relic held to be the head of Saint John the Baptist, and its estates extended far into Saintonge. Ruined during the sieges of the Wars of Religion, it was entrusted to the monks of Saint-Maur in the 1620s. They rebuilt it according to their ordered plans, but could not complete the new church. The conventual buildings and the unfinished church now house the town’s cultural services.

The Maurist priors, 1623-1788
  1. 1623 Dom Maur Tassin
  2. 1624 Dom Gérard des Alleux
  3. 1625 Contin.
  4. 1626 Contin.
  5. 1627 Contin.
  6. 1630 Contin.
  7. 1633 Dom Jean Harel
  8. 1636 Contin.
  9. 1639 Dom Anselme Guscheman
  10. 1642 Contin.
  11. 1645 Dom Anselme Guscheman
  12. 1648 Dom Sylvestre Perreciot
  13. 1651 Contin.
  14. 1654 Dom Anselme Guscheman
  15. 1657 Contin.
  16. 1660 Dom Germain Ferrand
  17. 1663 Contin.
  18. 1666 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  19. 1669 Dom Germain Ferrand
  20. 1672 Contin.
  21. 1675 Dom Charles le Boyer
  22. 1678 Contin.
  23. 1681 Dom Anselme Claire
  24. 1684 Contin.
  25. 1687 Dom Jacques de Nesde
  26. 1690 Contin.
  27. 1693 Dom Charles Hérissé
  28. 1696 Contin.
  29. 1699 Dom Silvestre Morel
  30. 1702 Contin.
  31. 1705 Dom Jean des Roches
  32. 1708 Dom Gilles Chouart
  33. 1711 Dom François de Grandseigne
  34. 1714 Contin.
  35. 1717 Dom Jean Guerrier
  36. 1720 Dom Benoît Petit
  37. 1723 Dom Jean Guerrier
  38. 1726 Contin.
  39. 1729 Dom Jean Baptiste Puyfauvel
  40. 1733 Dom Martial Cerisier
  41. 1736 Dom Jean François Murault
  42. 1739 Dom André Gardez
  43. 1742 Contin.
  44. 1745 Dom Jean Baptiste Puyfauvel
  45. 1748 Dom André Gardez
  46. 1751 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  47. 1754 Contin.
  48. 1757 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  49. 1760 Contin.
  50. 1763 Dom Jean Midy
  51. 1766 Dom Christophe Chapot
  52. 1769 Contin.
  53. 1772 Dom Léonard Deschamps
  54. 1775 Dom Jacques Bellet
  55. 1778 Dom Benoît Le Maire
  56. 1781 Contin.
  57. 1783 Dom Jean Julien de Dieu
  58. 1788 Dom J. Marie Barrot

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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Saintes, p. 287-290 · POP/Mérimée PA00105178, Ancienne abbaye Saint-Jean-Baptiste · BnF, notice d’autorité Abbaye Saint-Jean-Baptiste (08..-1623) · IRHT, Matriculae, G. O. Barillau, mort à Saint-Jean-d’Angély en 1628 · Archives historiques de la Saintonge et de l’Aunis, t. XXIII, Paris-Saintes, 1894, p. 391-410, 469-471 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye de Saint-Maixent

Saint-Maixent-l’École (Deux-Sèvres) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1634

Benedictine abbey of Poitou which had Saint Léger as abbot in the seventh century according to Beaunier-Besse, and which suffered much in the Wars of Religion. It entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur in 1634; the buildings were rebuilt from 1660 to 1736. Having become national property in 1791, it served among other things as a minor seminary, then as a barracks from 1877. The church is a parish church and the whole of the former abbey has been classified as a historic monument since 2012.

The Maurist priors, 1634-1788
  1. 1634 Dom Anselme Dohin
  2. 1637 Dom Cyprien Richard
  3. 1639 Dom Bernard Pattier
  4. 1642 Dom Urbain Vaillant
  5. 1646 Dom Boniface Le Tam
  6. 1648 Dom Ambroise Faucher
  7. 1651 Dom André Faye
  8. 1657 Dom Jacques Sargeant
  9. 1663 Dom Antoine Savy
  10. 1669 Dom Ambroise Fregeac
  11. 1672 Dom André Liabeuf
  12. 1677 Dom Charles Thierry
  13. 1684 Dom Claude Hemin
  14. 1686 Dom Guillaume Camuset
  15. 1690 Dom Léonard de Massiot
  16. 1693 Dom Jacques Denesde
  17. 1693 Dom Maur Marchand
  18. 1696 Dom René Drouinot
  19. 1696 Dom Joseph Lachaud
  20. 1702 Dom Charles Conrade
  21. 1702 Dom Louis Landrieu
  22. 1705 Dom François de Grandsaigne
  23. 1711 Dom Antoine Vaslet
  24. 1714 Dom François Chazal
  25. 1717 Dom Nicolas Vignoles
  26. 1722 Dom Benoît Petit
  27. 1723 Dom Pierre du Biez
  28. 1723 Dom Joseph Malevergne
  29. 1729 Dom Pierre Viale
  30. 1733 Dom François Perbé
  31. 1736 Dom Ambroise Arces
  32. 1736 Dom Gabriel de La Codre
  33. 1737 Dom Philippe Raffier
  34. 1742 Dom Jean Puyforel
  35. 1745 Dom Étienne Rechignat
  36. 1754 Dom Jean Charcot
  37. 1760 Dom François Girodias
  38. 1764 Dom Jean Midy
  39. 1764 Dom François Girodias
  40. 1765 Dom Étienne Rechignat
  41. 1766 Dom Jean Prévôt du Las
  42. 1769 Dom François-Gabriel Buer
  43. 1771 Dom Étienne Rechignat
  44. 1772 Dom Antoine Bompart
  45. 1774 Dom Louis Rambaud
  46. 1778 Dom Jean Larocque
  47. 1781 Dom Louis Rambaud
  48. 1783 Dom Jacques Chardé
  49. 1788 Dom Louis Rambaud

P. S. G.: appointment reserved to the Father Superior General; Contin.: prior continued in office; adm.: administrator. After Alfred Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, t. I, Archives historiques du Poitou, t. XVI, Poitiers, 1886, p. CXVII-CXX.

SourcesBeaunier-Besse, t. III (AFM X, 1910), p. 233-235 · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, col. 2776 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 15 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00101349 (classement 20 novembre 2012 ; renvoi PA00101350 pour l’église) · Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, Archives historiques du Poitou XVI et XVIII, 1886 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Present-day photograph: Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-l’Herm
The house today. Photo: Spouik, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-l’Herm

Saint-Michel-en-l’Herm (Vendée) · diocese of Luçon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1669

Tradition attributes the foundation to Ansoald, bishop of Poitiers, about 682; the monastery, ruined by the Normans, was raised again several times. The Huguenots destroyed it in 1568. The restoration begun in 1641 was completed by the monks of Saint-Maur, brought in by concordat in 1669, while the abbatial revenue passed to the Collège des Quatre-Nations founded at Mazarin’s wish. There remain the abbot’s lodging, the chapter house and remains of the cloister.

The Maurist priors, 1672-1788
  1. 1672 Dom Jacques Sergent
  2. 1675 Dom Antoine Savy
  3. 1678 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  4. 1681 Dom Adrien de Rely
  5. 1684 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  6. 1687 Dom Charles Adhenet (adm.)
  7. 1690 Dom Maur Marcland
  8. 1693 Contin.
  9. 1699 Dom François Grandsaigne
  10. 1702 Contin.
  11. 1705 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  12. 1708 Dom Claude Blanchet
  13. 1711 Dom Jean Navières
  14. 1714 Dom François Michelet
  15. 1717 Dom Joseph Malvergne
  16. 1720 Dom Michel Redon
  17. 1723 Dom Amand Valet
  18. 1726 Dom Jean Lacoste
  19. 1729 Dom François Fontjaudran (adm.)
  20. 1733 Dom Gabriel Charpeyre
  21. 1736 Dom Jacques de Verthamond
  22. 1739 Dom Pierre Bernard
  23. 1742 Dom Paul Henri Train
  24. 1745 Contin.
  25. 1748 Dom Henri Hérault
  26. 1751 Dom Jacques de Lotz
  27. 1754 Contin.
  28. 1757 Dom Benoît Le Maire
  29. 1760 Contin.
  30. 1763 Dom Louis Rombaud
  31. 1766 Dom Benoît Le Maire
  32. 1769 Contin.
  33. 1772 Dom Etienne Auguste Tercinier
  34. 1775 Contin.
  35. 1778 Dom Etienne Amable Contamine
  36. 1781 Dom François Paul Jesseaume
  37. 1783 Dom Pierre Martin
  38. 1788 Dom Ant. Jos. Pupier de Brioude

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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Luçon, p. 176-177 · POP/Mérimée PA00110256, Ancienne abbaye royale · Alfred Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, t. II, Archives historiques du Poitou, t. XVIII, Poitiers, 1886, p. 407 ; Du Tressay, Histoire des moines et des évêques de Luçon, t. III, Paris, 1869, p. 230

Present-day photograph: Prieuré de Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule
The house today. Photo: F5ZV, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Prieuré de Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule

Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule (Allier) · diocese of Clermont · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1646

Benedictine priory established on the Sioule, given in 871 to the monks of Tournus according to Beaunier-Besse. It was aggregated to the Congregation of Saint-Maur in the middle of the seventeenth century (1646 according to Cottineau); from 1666 the title of commendatory prior belonged to the priests of the Mission. A decree of the Council of 1767 provided for the suppression of conventual life, but four Maurists still resided there in 1768. The priory church of Sainte-Croix is classified as a historic monument.

The Maurist priors, 1657-1788
  1. 1657 Dom Placide Hamelin
  2. 1660 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  3. 1663 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  4. 1666 Dom Anselme Didier
  5. 1669 Dom Anselme Didier
  6. 1672 Dom Barthélémy Du Nouhaud
  7. 1675 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  8. 1678 Dom Gabriel Gérentes
  9. 1681 Dom Léonard De Massiot
  10. 1684 Dom Léonard De Massiot
  11. 1687 Dom François Hodeau
  12. 1690 Dom Léon d’Hère
  13. 1693 Dom Léon d’Hère
  14. 1696 Dom Michel Valleix
  15. 1699 Dom Michel Valleix
  16. 1702 Dom Léonard Lachaud
  17. 1705 Dom Nicolas Vignolles
  18. 1708 Dom Jacques De Grespat
  19. 1711 Dom Joseph Croisier
  20. 1714 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  21. 1717 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  22. 1720 Dom Pierre Vialle
  23. 1723 Dom Pierre Vialle
  24. 1726 Dom Jacques Royer
  25. 1729 Dom Ambroise Arcis
  26. 1733 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  27. 1736 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  28. 1739 Dom Ignace Perbé
  29. 1742 Dom Martial Du Laurent
  30. 1745 Dom Pierre Laffiteau
  31. 1748 Dom Laurent Perrin
  32. 1751 Dom Jean Midy
  33. 1754 Dom Jean Midy
  34. 1757 Dom Pierre Laffiteau
  35. 1760 Dom Amable Ferrière
  36. 1763 Dom Jacques Joseph Delotz
  37. 1772 Dom Etienne Perrot
  38. 1775 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  39. 1778 Dom Mathieu Huguet
  40. 1781 Dom Mathieu Huguet
  41. 1783 Dom Taurin Lespinasse
  42. 1788 Dom Taurin Lespinasse

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.

SourcesCottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, s.v. St-Pourcain · Beaunier-Besse, t. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 139-140 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV, 1906), bibliographie : arrêt du Conseil du 3 avril 1767 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 4 religieux en 1768, classé sous le diocèse d’Autun · POP/Mérimée PA00093288 (classement 1875)

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

Abbaye de Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe

Saint-Savin (Vienne) · diocese of Poitiers · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1640-1642

The abbey is attested at the beginning of the ninth century on the site where the tombs of the martyrs Savin and Cyprien were venerated; Benedict of Aniane governed it for a time. The church, built in the second half of the eleventh century, preserves a large ensemble of Romanesque wall paintings. The monks of Saint-Maur settled there about 1640-1642 and rebuilt the buildings and the cloister from 1682. The church is now a parish church.

The Maurist priors, 1642-1788
  1. 1642 P. S. G.
  2. 1645 Dom Dorothée Girard
  3. 1648 Contin.
  4. 1651 Dom Ambroise Francher
  5. 1654 Dom Firmin de la Croix
  6. 1657 Contin.
  7. 1660 Dom Marc Ragot
  8. 1663 Dom Adrien de Rely
  9. 1666 Dom Augustin de Prades
  10. 1669 Dom Louis Halley (adm.)
  11. 1672 Dom Etienne Roulleau
  12. 1675 Dom François de Montclar
  13. 1678 Contin.
  14. 1681 Dom Etienne Roulleau
  15. 1684 Dom Jean Villatel
  16. 1687 Contin.
  17. 1690 Dom Charles Adhenet
  18. 1693 Dom Edmond Nicolaï
  19. 1696 Dom Léonard de Massiot
  20. 1699 Contin.
  21. 1702 Dom Jacques Cibot
  22. 1705 Contin.
  23. 1708 Dom Léonard de Massiot
  24. 1711 Dom Michel Valeix
  25. 1714 Dom Antoine Vaslet
  26. 1717 Contin.
  27. 1720 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne (adm.)
  28. 1723 Dom Léonard Picault
  29. 1726 Dom Joseph David
  30. 1729 Dom Eutrope Maréchal
  31. 1733 Dom Placide Ardent
  32. 1736 Dom Etienne Vernet
  33. 1739 Dom André Hérault
  34. 1742 Dom Antoine Trablaine
  35. 1745 Dom Jean Clément
  36. 1748 Contin.
  37. 1751 Dom Antoine Durand
  38. 1754 Dom Antoine Trablaine
  39. 1757 Contin.
  40. 1760 Contin.
  41. 1763 Dom Antoine Durand
  42. 1766 Dom Edmond Vincent Gounot
  43. 1769 Contin.
  44. 1772 Dom Jean Baptiste Vergessac
  45. 1775 Contin.
  46. 1778 Dom Louis Flock
  47. 1781 Dom Joseph Jany
  48. 1783 Dom Pierre Follereau
  49. 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. III (AFM vol. X, 1910), diocèse de Poitiers, p. 235-236 · POP/Mérimée PA00105711, Ancienne abbaye · POP/Mérimée PA00105712, Ancienne église abbatiale (classée 1840) · P.-A. Lebrun, L’Abbaye et l’église de S.-Savin, Poitiers, 1888, p. 104-105 ; Alfred Richard, Chartes et documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’abbaye de Saint-Maixent, t. II, Poitiers, 1886, p. 407 · Abbaye de Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, site officiel · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Prieuré Sainte-Croix de Savigneux

Savigneux (Loire) · diocese of Lyon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: date not established

The priory of Sainte-Croix at Savigneux, near Montbrison, depended on the abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. Monks of the Congregation of Saint-Maur lived there at least from the end of the 17th century, as the congregation’s registers of profession attest. The list of the Commission of Regulars (1768) and Beaunier-Besse place it in the Maurist province of Chezal-Benoît, to which La Chaise-Dieu belonged.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1754 Dom Math. Gérentet
  2. 1757 Dom Math. Gérentet
  3. 1760 Dom Pierre Peynet
  4. 1763 Dom Charles Pain

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, Introduction (AFM IV), 1906, p. 94 (Savigneux dans la province de Chezal-Benoît) · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France, 1902, p. 17 (province de Chezal-Benoît, diocèse de Lyon) · IRHT, Matricule de Saint-Maur, fiche Simon Nicot (v. 1669-1704)

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

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solignac

Solignac (Haute-Vienne) · diocese of Limoges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1619

Benedictine abbey whose foundation by Saint Eligius is reported about 631-632, on the Briance south of Limoges. Plundered by the Calvinists after 1571, it was in 1619 one of the first houses given to the Congregation of Saint-Maur. The twelfth-century church, now a parish church, is classified as a historic monument; the seventeenth-century entrance gateway of the monastery is listed.

The Maurist priors, 1621-1788
  1. 1621 Dom Roderic Limogat
  2. 1622 Dom Bernard De Jevardac
  3. 1623 Dom Maur Tassin
  4. 1624 Dom Maurice Poinsignon
  5. 1625 Dom Maurice Poinsignon
  6. 1626 Dom Maur Tassin
  7. 1627 Dom Maur Tassin
  8. 1628 Dom Maur Tassin
  9. 1630 Dom Gérard Des Alleux
  10. 1636 Dom Florent Bodin
  11. 1639 Dom Constantin Navarre
  12. 1642 Dom Bruno Vallès
  13. 1645 Dom Robert La Vialle
  14. 1648 Dom Ambroise Frégeac
  15. 1651 Dom François Ducher
  16. 1654 Dom Louis Janet
  17. 1657 Dom Louis Janet
  18. 1660 Dom Etienne Routeau
  19. 1663 Dom Etienne Routeau
  20. 1666 Dom Ildephonse Vigier
  21. 1669 Dom Ildephonse Vigier
  22. 1672 Dom Adéodat Buisson
  23. 1675 Dom Claude Vidal
  24. 1678 Dom Claude Vidal
  25. 1681 Dom Claude Benault
  26. 1684 Dom Claude Vidal
  27. 1687 Dom Claude Vidal
  28. 1690 Dom Laurent La Conque
  29. 1693 Dom Claude Vidal
  30. 1696 Dom Louis Landrieu
  31. 1699 Dom François Redon
  32. 1702 Dom Biaise François Vignolle
  33. 1705 Dom Biaise François Vignolle
  34. 1708 Dom Nicolas Vignolles
  35. 1711 Dom François Chazal
  36. 1714 Dom Denis Godard
  37. 1717 Dom Denis Godard
  38. 1720 Dom Gabriel De La Chassaigne
  39. 1723 Dom Gabriel De La Chassaigne
  40. 1726 Dom Jacques De La Codre
  41. 1729 Dom Joseph Malvergne
  42. 1733 Dom Etienne Vernet
  43. 1736 Dom François Fonjaudran
  44. 1739 Dom François Fonjaudran
  45. 1745 Dom François Fonjaudran
  46. 1748 Dom François Fonjaudran
  47. 1751 Dom Antoine Trablaine
  48. 1754 Dom Antoine Durand
  49. 1757 Dom Jean Midy
  50. 1760 Dom Jean Midy
  51. 1763 Dom Antoine Ardaillon
  52. 1766 Dom François Geraudias
  53. 1769 Dom François Geraudias
  54. 1772 Dom Antoine Ardaillon
  55. 1775 Dom Jean Baptiste La Roque
  56. 1778 Dom Jean Baptiste Martinet
  57. 1781 Dom François De Mathieu
  58. 1783 Dom Léonard Lansade
  59. 1788 Dom Antoine Vergne

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. V (AFM XIV, 1912), p. 197-198 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV, 1906), liste des abbayes données les dix premières années · Cottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, col. 3058 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 9 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00100503 (église) · POP/Mérimée PA00100501 (porte, inscription 24 janvier 1944) · Gallia christiana II, col. 566-575 · Dom Laurent Dumas, Chronique du monastère de Saint-Pierre de Solignac, éd. A. Lecler, Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique du Limousin, t. XLV, Limoges, 1896, p. 183-189 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

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

Abbaye Sainte-Marie (Notre-Dame) de Souillac

Souillac (Lot) · diocese of Cahors · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1660

Benedictine abbey of Quercy, on the Borrèze, linked to Saint-Géraud d’Aurillac since the tenth century. Ravaged during the Wars of Religion, it entered the Congregation of Saint-Maur on the initiative of Henri de La Mothe-Houdancourt (1660 according to Cottineau), and its buildings were rebuilt from 1659 to 1712. Sold as national property in 1791, it later served as a college and then as a tobacco warehouse. The abbey church is classified and part of the conventual buildings is listed.

The Maurist priors, 1660-1788
  1. 1660 Dom Germain Bacquelin
  2. 1663 Dom Joseph La Roque
  3. 1666 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  4. 1669 Dom Sixte Mousnier
  5. 1672 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  6. 1675 Dom Robert Marcland
  7. 1678 Dom Vincent Villemonteys
  8. 1681 Dom Joseph Boesse
  9. 1684 Dom Barthélémy Monteil
  10. 1687 Dom Claude Lieutaud
  11. 1690 Dom Gilles Thévenard
  12. 1693 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  13. 1696 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  14. 1699 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  15. 1702 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  16. 1705 Dom Mathurin Trenchant
  17. 1708 Dom Joachim Gérentes
  18. 1711 Dom Joachim Gérentes
  19. 1714 Dom Hugues Bergonhoux
  20. 1717 Dom Louis Guilhemin
  21. 1720 Dom Armand Vaslet
  22. 1723 Dom André Gardez
  23. 1726 Dom Antoine Palerne
  24. 1729 Dom Amable Chabrut
  25. 1733 Dom Louis Dalesme
  26. 1736 Dom Etienne Rechignac
  27. 1739 Dom Louis Dalesme
  28. 1742 Dom Jean Clément
  29. 1745 Dom Bruno Leyssène
  30. 1748 Dom Ignace Perbé
  31. 1751 Dom Bruno Leyssène
  32. 1754 Dom Bruno Leyssène
  33. 1757 Dom François Lacoste
  34. 1760 Dom François Lacoste
  35. 1763 Dom Antoine Bompart
  36. 1766 Dom Grégoire Du Mas
  37. 1769 Dom Grégoire Du Mas
  38. 1772 Dom Grégoire Du Mas
  39. 1775 Dom Grégoire Du Mas
  40. 1778 Dom Joseph Jouy
  41. 1781 Dom Grégoire Du Mas
  42. 1783 Dom Jean Baptiste Courtain
  43. 1788 Dom Silvain Chauvin

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.

SourcesCottineau, Répertoire topo-bibliographique, t. II, s.v. Souillac · Beaunier-Besse, t. IV, Provinces d’Alby, Narbonne et Toulouse (AFM XII, 1911), p. 27-28 · Lecestre (1902), p. 17 : 5 religieux en 1768 · POP/Mérimée PA00095262 (église, classement 1840) · POP/Mérimée PA00095300 (bâtiments conventuels, inscription 11 janvier 1991) · Gallia christiana I, col. 179-182 · Bulletin de la Société scientifique, historique et archéologique de la Corrèze, t. XXIV, Brive, 1902 · Monasticon Gallicanum, BnF (Wikimedia Commons)

Collège royal de Thoissey

Thoissey (Ain) · diocese of Lyon · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1769

College of Thoissey, in the principality of Dombes, which grew out of a school founded by the burghers of the town at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was made a college in 1680. By letters patent of January 1769 it was entrusted to the Benedictines of Saint-Maur, who took possession in April and opened a boarding school there, under the oversight of the archbishop of Lyon. The Maurists left the house a few years later; the Josephites of Lyon succeeded them in 1784.

The Maurist priors, 1772-1781
  1. 1772 Dom Jean Jarrier
  2. 1775 Dom Antoine Ardaillon
  3. 1778 Dom Antoine Ardaillon
  4. 1781 Dom Julien Dedieu

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, « Les Bénédictins au collège de Thoissey », Revue Mabillon I (1905), p. 284-286 · Besse, Introduction (AFM IV, 1906), bibliographie (renvoi à l’article)

Engraved view of the house in the Monasticon Gallicanum: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Vierzon
Monasticon Gallicanum, late seventeenth century. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Prints and Photographs.
Present-day photograph: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Vierzon
The house today. Photo: Fab5669, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Vierzon

Vierzon (Cher) · diocese of Bourges · Congregation of Saint-Maur: 1665

The monastery of Saint-Pierre at Vierzon received the monks of Dèvres, driven from their abbey by the Normans at the beginning of the 10th century, according to Beaunier-Besse. In 1657 the general chapter of Saint-Maur decided to negotiate with the abbot; the house was aggregated to the congregation in 1665. It counted seven monks in 1768. The abbey church, rebuilt in the 15th century, is today a parish church.

Priors on record (partial list)
  1. 1675 Dom François De Baillac
  2. 1678 Dom Maur Dupont
  3. 1681 Dom Charles Poirier
  4. 1684 Dom François Hodeau
  5. 1687 Dom Guy Buisson
  6. 1690 Dom Guy Buisson
  7. 1693 Dom Michel Valleix
  8. 1696 Dom Jacques Bellotier
  9. 1699 Dom Jacques Bellotier
  10. 1702 Dom Philippe Raffier
  11. 1705 Dom Philippe Raffier
  12. 1708 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  13. 1711 Dom Laurent Baubiat
  14. 1714 Dom Joachim Gérentes
  15. 1717 Dom Martial Croisier
  16. 1720 Dom Martial Croisier
  17. 1723 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  18. 1726 Dom Jean Baptiste Palerne
  19. 1729 Dom Jean Royer
  20. 1733 Dom André Bérault
  21. 1736 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  22. 1739 Dom Gilbert Chassaing
  23. 1742 Dom David Chazal
  24. 1745 Dom Ignace Perbé
  25. 1748 Dom Joseph Courtois
  26. 1751 Dom Joseph Courtois
  27. 1757 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  28. 1760 Dom Hugues Chassaing
  29. 1763 Dom François Thomas
  30. 1766 Dom Pierre Carementran
  31. 1769 Dom Pierre Carementran
  32. 1772 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  33. 1775 Dom Pierre Terrasse
  34. 1778 Dom Silvestre Barthez
  35. 1781 Dom Jacques Chardes
  36. 1783 Dom Jacques Monginot
  37. 1788 Dom Jean Julien De Dieu

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. 94 · Lecestre, Abbayes, prieurés et couvents d’hommes en France (1902), p. 17 · Beaunier-Besse, Abbayes et prieurés, t. V (province de Bourges), AFM 14, p. 32-33 · Martène, Histoire de la congrégation de Saint-Maur, t. IV, p. 44-45 et note 5 · POP Mérimée PA00096923, église Notre-Dame de Vierzon · 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