The Professed House was a

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, built on the

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. Its site between rue Saint-Paul, rue Saint-Antoine and rue Charlemagne are now occupied by the

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. It welcomed theologians and scientists and was in a quarter lived in by the nobility. The église Saint-Louis (now église Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis) was built nearby.

History

In 1580,

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bought the hôtel de La Rochepot from duchesse de Montmorency and gave it to the Jesuits, who modified it. Between 1627 and 1647, on the

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, they built the main building of the professed house. This house was the base for the

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for 34 years, who gave his name to the cimetière du Père-Lachaise (with a spelling error that appeared under

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). It also housed preachers such as

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and Ménestrier, as well as

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, music master to the Jesuits. After the

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under the ministry of the

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, the buildings became deserted in the 1760s. In 1767, the Génovéfains of Le Val-des-Écoliers bought it for 400,000 livres and renamed it the "Prieuré royal de Saint-Louis de la Couture" ("Royal Priory of Saint Louis of Couture")The church in Paris during the French Revolution.
/ref> - they owned the biggest library in Paris. Hyacinthe Théodore Baron was the physician of this priory and was buried there in 1787..

References

External links

The Nobles' Chapel at the Paris Professed House
Society of Jesus Le Marais {{RC-stub