The Maubuisson Abbey was a French monastery, suppressed at the time of the French Revolution

French Revolution

The French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...

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History

The abbey was established by Blanche of Castile

Blanche of Castile

Blanche of Castile , was a Queen consort of France as the wife of Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX....

. At the end of her life, she withdrew in the abbey and died there in 1252. The abbey thrived financially under royal patronage until the Hundred Years War. Twice in the fifteenth century did the nuns support rival abbesses.

The tenure of Antoinette de Dinteville (1482–1524) brought new prosperity, but this was destroyed during the French Wars of Religion

French Wars of Religion

The French Wars of Religion is the name given to a period of civil infighting and military operations, primarily fought between French Catholics and Protestants . The conflict involved the factional disputes between the aristocratic houses of France, such as the House of Bourbon and House of Guise...

, during which the abbey was looted twice by Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

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The abbey was closed in 1793, after a century of further decay.