Grosbois Monastery (Yerres)

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The Trappist monastery Grosbois (also: Kloster Yerres ) was a French monastery of the Trappists from 1804 to 1811 and of the Trappist women in Yerres ( Essonne department ) from 1804 to 1808 . It should not be confused with the former Cistercian monastery Grosbois in the diocese of Angoulême .

history

After the dispersion by the French Revolution , some Trappists managed to survive and (around 1798) to get together again in Paris. Both communities were merged in 1801 by Xavier Miquel (former novice of La Trappe ) in Soisy-sur-Seine (then Soisy-sous-Etiolles ), but housed in separate buildings. The double monastery was on the southern edge of the forest of Sénart (also: Sénard) and is also known as the "Monastery of Sénart". In 1804 Miquel gave the two communities to Jean-Baptiste Desnoyers , who placed them in a former Camaldolese priory in Yerres (district Grosbois) on the northern edge of the forest of Sénart, which is known in literature under different names ( Yerres , also: Yères and Hyères , as well as Grosbois and Sénart ).

In 1808 Desnoyers was deposed by Abbot Augustin de Lestrange . Lestrange separated the two communities. The monks stayed in Yerres under the leadership of Jean de la Croix Bodé. The nuns went under the leadership of Marie des Séraphins de Chateaubriand (1761-1832), a relative of François-René de Chateaubriand , a few kilometers north to Valenton . When Napoleon dissolved all the Cistercian monasteries in 1811 and also dispersed the Trappists of Grosbois, the Trappists of Valenton survived as a community in Tréguier until 1815 thanks to the good relations of their superior, and then settled in the former Premonstratensian Abbey of Mondaye near Bayeux .

literature

  • L'Abbaye Notre-Dame de La Coudre à Laval (Mayenne), par des Cisterciennes de La Coudre . In: Les Amis des Monastères . 137, January 2004, pp. 7-37.
  • Josiane Ferrari-Clément: Fous de Dieu. Récit d'une odyssée trappiste 1793–1815 . Cerf, Paris 1998.
  • Roland Jousselin: La double vocation de Jean-Baptiste Desnoyers (1768-1849) , Bégrolles-en-Mauges, Edition Abbaye de Bellefontaine, 2001.
  • Marie de la Trinité Kervingant: Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines . Beauchesne, Paris 1989.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay (* 1965): Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme: 1754–1827 . Cerf, Paris 1998; Diss. Lyon 3, 1994 (pp. 291, 317, 355, 321-322).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 169 (sv Grosbois).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 42 ′ 30.6 "  N , 2 ° 29 ′ 56.3"  E