page_title: List of Benedictine monasteries in France
section_title: B
hierarchical_section_title: List of Benedictine monasteries in France / B
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Baume-les-Messieurs (France), le village et l'ancienne abbaye bénédictine impériale dans le site naturel de la reculée du cirque de Baume. English: Baume-les-Messieurs (France), the village and the former Baume Abbey in the natural site of the steephead valley of the "cirque de Baume".
context_page_description: 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 France. Some monasteries however belonged at various times in their histories to both the Benedictines and the Cistercians.
  At different times these religious houses have formed various orders, congregations or groups, of which the main ones, as far as French monasteries are concerned, are the following:
  the Order of Cluny
  the Camaldolese
  the Olivetans
  the Celestines
  the Order of Chalais
  the Order of Fontevraud
  the Congregation of Tiron
  the Congregation of La Chaise-Dieu
  the Congregation of Saint-Victor
  the Bursfelde Congregation
  the Alsace Congregation
  the Cassinese Congregation
  the Congregation of Chezal-Benoît
  the Congregation of the Exempts of Flanders
  the Congregation of the Exempts of France
  the Société de Bretagne
  the Congregation of St. Vanne
  the Congregation of St. Maur
  the English Benedictine Congregation in exile
  the Congregation of the Allobroges
  the Affligem group
  the Solesmes Congregation
  the Subiaco Congregation
context_section_description: Baignes Abbey otherwise Baigne Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Baignes or Baigne), monks, Diocese of Saintes (Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde, Charente)
  Le Barroux (Vaucluse):
  Abbey of Our Lady of the Annunciation, Le Barroux (Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation du Barroux), nuns
  Abbey of St. Madeleine, Le Barroux (Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux), monks (founded 1978, raised to status of abbey in 1989)
  Bassac Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Étienne de Bassac), monks, Diocese of Saintes (?-1790) (Bassac, Charente) 
  Baume-les-Dames Abbey (Abbaye de Baume-les-Dames, Abbaye Sainte-Odile), nuns, Diocese of Besançon (Baume-les-Dames, Doubs)
  Baume Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Baume-les-Messieurs or Baume-les-Moines), monks, Diocese of Besançon, later Diocese of Saint-Claude (Baume-les-Messieurs, Jura) (later became Cistercian)
  Beaulieu-lès-Loches Abbey (Abbaye Sainte-Trinité de Beaulieu), monks, Diocese of Tours (Beaulieu-lès-Loches, Indre-et-Loire)
  Beaulieu-en-Argonne Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Sauveur et Saint-Maurice de Beaulieu), monks, Diocese of Verdun (Beaulieu-en-Argonne, Meuse)
  Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Beaulieu or Abbaye Saint-Pierre, Saint-Paul et Sainte-Félicité de Beaulieu), Diocese of Limoges, in the Limousin (Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, Corrèze)
  Beaumont Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Beaumont), nuns, Diocese of Clermont (Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme)
  Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey (Abbaye de Beaumont-lès-Tours), nuns, Diocese of Tours (Beaumont-lès-Tours, Indre-et-Loire)
  Abbey of St. Lucian, Beauvais (Abbaye Saint-Lucien de Beauvais), monks, Diocese of Beauvais (Beauvais, Oise)
  Bec Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), monks (Olivetans since 1948), Diocese of Rouen (Le Bec-Hellouin, Eure) 
  Bellaigue Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bellaigue), monks (Virlet, Puy-de-Dôme) 
  Bellefontaine Abbey (Abbaye de Bellefontaine), Diocese of La Rochelle (Bégrolles-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire)
  Belloc Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Belloc) (Urt, Pyrénées-Atlantiques)
  Bergues Abbey (Abbaye de Bergues-Saint-Winoc), monks, Diocese of Ypres (Bergues, Nord)
  Bernay Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bernay), monks, Diocese of Lisieux (Bernay, Eure)
  Bertaucourt Abbey (Abbaye de Bertaucourt), nuns, Diocese of Amiens (? = Bertaucourt-Epourdon, Aisne)
  Abbey of St. Vincent, Besançon (Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Besançon), monks, Diocese of Besançon (Besançon, Doubs)
  Bèze Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre, Saint-Paul de Bèze), monks (Bèze, Côte-d'Or)
  Biblisheim Abbey (Abbaye de Biblisheim), nuns, Diocese of Strasbourg (Biblisheim, Bas-Rhin)
  Abbaye des Blancs-Manteaux ("Abbey of the White Cloaks"), monks, Diocese of Paris (Rue des Blancs-Manteaux, 4th arrondissement, Paris) (Servites 1258-74; Williamites 1298-1610; Benedictines 1618-1790; this was the first seat of the Congregation of Saint-Maur)
  Blangy Abbey (Abbaye de Blangy), monks, Diocese of Boulogne-sur-Mer (Blangy-sur-Ternoise, Pas-de-Calais)
  Blasimont Abbey otherwise Blâmont Abbey (Abbaye de Blasimont or Blâmont), monks, Diocese of Bazas (Blasimon, Gironde)
  Blaye Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Blaye), monks, Diocese of Bordeaux (Blaye, Gironde)
  Blesle Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Blesle), nuns, Diocese of Clermont (849-1789) (Blesle, Haute-Loire) 
  Abbey of St. Laumer, Blois (Abbaye Saint-Laumer de Blois), Diocese of Chartres later Diocese of Blois (Blois, Loir-et-Cher) 
  Bois-Aubry Abbey (Abbaye de Bois-Aubry), monks, Diocese of Tours (Luzé, Indre-et-Loire) 
  Bonnesaigne Abbey (Abbaye de Bonnesaigne), nuns, Diocese of Limoges (Combressol, Corrèze)
  Bonneval Abbey (Abbaye de Bonneval, Abbaye Saint-Florentin or Abbaye Saint-Florentin et Saint-Hilaire de Bonneval), monks, Diocese of Chartres (Bonneval, Eure-et-Loir)
  Bonneval-lès-Thouars Abbey (Abbaye de Bonneval-lès-Thouars), nuns, Diocese of Poitiers (Saint-Jean-de-Thouars, Deux-Sèvres)
  Bon-Secours Priory (Prieuré Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours), nuns (1648-1790), Diocese of Paris (Rue de Charonne and Impasse Bon-Secours, 11th arrondissement, Paris)
  St. Cross Abbey, Bordeaux (Abbaye Sainte-Croix de Bordeaux), monks, Diocese of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, Gironde)
  Bos
caption: Baume Abbey
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