This is a list of Christian monasteries and religious houses in

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, both extant and non-extant, and for either men or women (or both).

Christian religious houses arranged by order

Augustinians

Chancelade Abbey Chancelade Abbey (french: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Chancelade) is an Augustinian Canons, Augustinian monastery in Chancelade in the Dordogne. It was founded in 1129. The abbey was damaged by English troops in the 14th century during the Hundred Yea ...

Chancelade Chancelade (; oc, Chancelada) is a Communes of France, commune in the Dordogne Departments of France, department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. The village is the site of Chancelade Abbey. The so-called "Chancelade man" was found i ...

, Dordogne * Fontenelles Abbey,

Saint-André-d'Ornay La Roche-sur-Yon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. It is the capital of the department. The demonym for its inhabitants is ''Yonnais''. History The town expanded significantly after Napo ...

, Vendée *

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

: **Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Mary and Jesus of the Perpetual Adoration (''Congrégation des Sacrés Coeurs de Marie et de Jésus de l'Adoration Perpétuelle''), Rue de Picpus, Paris, canonesses; formerly the Priory of the Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Victory of Lepanto. During the

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the canonesses were expelled, and a certain Coignard took over the buildings as a nursing home for sick prisoners of the Terror: the Maison de Santé de Coignard. The gardens were used for the disposal of the bodies of the victims of the guillotine. After the revolution a community of canonesses was re-installed here, as a memorial to the many dead. ** Abbey of St. Genevieve, Paris **

Abbey of St. Victor, Paris The Abbey of Saint Victor, Paris, also known as Royal Abbey and School of Saint Victor, was an abbey near Paris, France. Its origins are connected to the decision of William of Champeaux, the Archdeacon of Paris, to retire to a small hermitage near ...

Sablonceaux Abbey Sablonceaux Abbey (french: Abbaye de Sablonceaux) is a former Augustinian monastery located in Sablonceaux in the Charente-Maritime department of south-western France. It is now occupied by members of the Chemin Neuf Community. History Creation ...

Sablonceaux Sablonceaux () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Population See also * Communes of the Charente-Maritime department The following is a list of the 463 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of ...

, Charente-Maritime * Abbey of St. Jean des Vignes, Soissons * Abbey of St. Loup, Troyes

Benedictines

(including Cluniacs): *see

List of Benedictine monasteries in France This is a list of Benedictine monasteries, extant and non-extant, in the present territory of France. It includes both monks and nuns following the Rule of Saint Benedict, excluding the Cistercians, for whom see List of Cistercian monasteries in F ...

Carmelites

Carmel de la Place Maubert The Carmel de la Place Maubert, also known as the ''Grand Couvent'' or ''Couvent des Barrés'' ( la, Monasterium de Mariae de Monte-Carmelo), was a house of the Calced Carmelites located on Place Maubert on a site now occupied by the police statio ...

Carthusians

*see List of Carthusian monasteries in France

Cistercians

(including Trappists): *see

List of Cistercian monasteries in France The following is a list of Cistercian monasteries in France, including current and former Cistercian abbeys, and a few priories, on the current territory of France, for both monks and nuns. These religious houses have belonged, at different tim ...

Dominicans

Convent of Sainte Marie de la Tourette Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican Order priory, located on a hillside near Lyon, France, designed by the architect Le Corbusier, the architect’s final building. The design of the building began in May 1953 and completed in 1961. The comm ...

(''Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette''), friars (

Éveux Éveux () is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. See also * Sainte Marie de La Tourette *Communes of the Rhône department The following is a list of the 208 communes of the Rhône department of France. This list does not i ...

, Rhône)

Franciscans

Capuchin Friary, Crest The Capuchin Friary in Crest in Drôme, France, is a Capuchin convent. The convent was established in 1609 in the former Benedictine priory of Crest. A small community of twelve friars lived there, following the contemplative life which that bran ...

(''Monastère des Capucins de Crest'')

Capuchin friars The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (; postnominal abbr. O.F.M. Cap.) is a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church, one of Three " First Orders" that reformed from the Franciscan Friars Minor Observant (OFM Obs., now OFM) ...

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, Drôme) *

Convent of Poor Clares, Gravelines The Convent of Poor Clares at Gravelines in the Spanish Netherlands, now northern France, was a community of English nuns of the Order of St. Clare, commonly called "Poor Clares", which was founded in 1607 by Mary Ward. The order of Poor Clares ...

''Register of the Poor Clares at Gravelines'' (pdf)
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Premonstratensians

*see List of Premonstratensian monasteries in France