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Abbecourt Abbey (French: Abbaye d'Abbecourt; Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Abbecourt; Template:Lang-la) is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Orgeval, Yvelines, France.

Originally a small oratory,[1] the abbey was founded, either in 1142 or 1180,[2] by Gasun, seigneur of Poissy.[3] It was a daughter house of Marcheroux Abbey, now in Oise.[4] The church was consecrated in 1191.

The buildings were damaged in 1340, in the Hundred Years' War, and destroyed by the English between 1420 and 1437.[1] Reconstruction began at the end of the 17th century, during the abbacy of Jean Penillon.[5] In the early 18th century a pond on the site was discovered to have supposedly health-giving mineral properties and taking its waters became an attraction for the court of Louis XV, the royal Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye being nearby.[6]

In about 1740 the former almoner of Louis XV, the Abbé Louis Grisard,[7] replaced the guest accommodation, besides adding a gallery to the cloister and making alterations to the principal building and the dormitory. In 1741, the architect Louis François Herbet drew up plans for a new church, construction of which was completed by the architect Claude-Louis d'Aviler from 1743 to 1749. In the 1780s the dormitory was rebuilt by Jean-François Raimbert.

The monastery was suppressed in the French Revolution, when the church was destroyed. The site was used as a source of stone, and in 1827 all the remaining buildings were demolished. Only a few ruins remain and the toponym "Allée d'Abbecourt".

References

  1. ^ a b Data.BNF.fr: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Abbecourt. Orgeval, Yvelines
  2. ^ Merlet, L., Moutie, A., Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay: 1301-1635, (1858), vol.2, p.329
  3. ^ Honoré Fisquet, La France pontificale, (1864), pp.543 et seq.
  4. ^ Charpentier, F., Daugy, X., Sur le Chemin des abbayes de Picardie. (2008), p.135
  5. ^ Migne, J.P., Dictionnaire de géographie sacrée et ecclésiastique, (1849), p.19
  6. ^ Google Books: PARIS ÎLE DE FRANCE 2016/2017 Petit Futé: Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul
  7. ^ Bonnet, Ph., Les constructions de l'ordre de Prémontré en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, (1980), pp.103-104

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