The Collège of Bernardins, or Collège Saint-Bernard, located no 20, rue de Poissy in the

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, is a former

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college of the historic

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. Founded by

Stephen of Lexington Stephen of Lexington (or "de Lexington", "Lexinton", "Lessington") (born c. 1198, d. 21 March, probably in 1258), was an English Cistercian monk, abbot, and founder of a college in Paris. Life Stephen came from a prominent family of royal official ...

, abbot of Clairvaux, and built from 1248 with the encouragement of

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Innocent IV Pope Innocent IV ( la, Innocentius IV; – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254. Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universitie ...

, it served until the

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as the residence for the Cistercian monks, students at the University of Paris. After an overall renovation completed in September 2008, Les Échos "La résurrection du collège des Bernadins", d'Annick Colybes, mercredi 3 septembre 2008. it is now a place for meetings, dialogues, training and culture, offering a rich program of public conferences and symposia, exhibitions, concerts, activities for young people and a theological and biblical studies center. As for the Ecole Cathédrale, every year over 4,500 students enroll for its course. Since 2009, it houses the Académie catholique de France. It has been the subject of a classification for French historical monuments since 10 February 1871.

References, notes and bibliography

Bibliography

Collège des Bernardins

* Directed by Vincent Aucante, ''Le Collège des Bernardins'', Association du 18-24 Poissy, Paris, 2008 ; p. 256 * Pierre Engel, ''La résurrection du Collège des Bernardins'', p. 198-209, dans le ''Bulletin Ouvrages métalliques'', 6, 2010 ; p. 256

Medieval Monastic Orders

* Henri-Irénée Marrou, ''L'église de l'Antiquité tardive (303-604)'', Éditions du Seuil (collection ''Points Histoires'' H81), Paris, 1985 ; p. 321 * Jean Chélini, ''Histoire religieuse de l'Occident médiéval'', Hachette - Pluriel, Paris, 1991 ; p. 661 * Marcel Pacaut, ''Les ordres monastiques et religieux au Moyen Âge'', Nathan, Paris, 1993 ; p. 256 * Directed by Jacques Berlioz, ''Moines et religieux au Moyen Âge'', Éditions du Seuil (collection ''Points Histoire '' H185), Paris, 1994 ; p. 346 * Jacques Paul, ''Le christianisme occidental au Moyen Âge. (IVth to XVth century)'', Armand Colin, Paris, 2004 ; p. 396 * Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Charles Mériaux, ''Histoire de France. La France avant la France (481-888)'', Éditions Belin, Paris, 2010 ; p. 688

Parisian Colleges & Universities

* Jacques Verger, ''Les universités au Moyen Âge'', puf (collection ''Quadrige'', Paris, 2007 ; p. 226 * Aurélie Perraut, ''L'architecture des collèges parisiens au Moyen Âge'', Presses universitaires Paris Sorbonne (collection ''cultures et civilisations médiévales'' 46), Paris, 2009 ; p. 467 * Michel Sot, Jean-Patrice Boudet, Anita Guerreau-Jalabert, ''Histoire culturelle de la France. Tome 1. Le Moyen Âge'', Éditions du Seuil (collection ''Points Histoire'' H348), Paris, 2005 ; p. 472 * Jacques Le Goff, ''Les intellectuels au Moyen Âge'', Éditions du Seuil (collection ''Points Histoire'' H78), Paris, 2000 ; p. 233

Cistercian culture

* Directed by Julie Roux, ''Les cisterciens'', MSM, Vic-en-Bigorre, 2003 ; p. 320 *

Georges Duby Georges Duby (7 October 1919 – 3 December 1996) was a French historian who specialised in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of Franc ...

, ''Saint Bernard. L'art cistercien'', Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1976 ; p. 222

References

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