page_title: Couvent des Feuillants
section_title: First Republic
hierarchical_section_title: Couvent des Feuillants / History / First Republic
caption_attribution_description: French&#58; L'église des Feuillant (Paris) en démolitionDemolition of the Church of the Feuillantstitle QS:P1476,fr:"L'église des Feuillant (Paris) en démolition" label QS:Lfr,"L'église des Feuillant (Paris) en démolition"
context_page_description: The royal monastery of Saint-Bernard, better known as the Couvent des Feuillants or Les Feuillants Convent, was a Feuillant nunnery or convent in Paris, behind what is now numbers 229—235 rue Saint-Honoré, near its corner with rue de Castiglione. It was founded in 1587 by Henry III of France. Its church was completed in 1608 and dedicated to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
  The nunnery was secularised and nationalised in the decrees of 13 and 16 May 1790 and became notable as the meeting place of the Feuillant Club. Jacques-Louis David used the nave of the convent's church as a studio for his painting The Tennis Court Oath. Most of the complex was then demolished under the French Consulate, leaving only the guesthouses at 229—235 rue Saint-Honoré and the outline of its church's apse, which can be discerned in the courtyard of one of the guesthouses.
context_section_description: In 1793, the National Convention moved from the Manège and les Feuillants to the Tuileries. In the autumn, the old convent buildings became factories and administration buildings for arms manufacture. The artillery museum was also set up there before being moved to the couvent des Jacobins in 1796.
  Under the French Consulate, the decrees of 17-vendémiaire and 1-floréal in year X (9 October 1801 and 21 April 1802) put into effect part of the works planned in the "Plan des Artistes", ordering the creation of what would become rue de Rivoli and rue de Castiglione over the Feuillants convent site. The convent was thus totally demolished, except for the guesthouses on rue Saint-Honoré (numbers 229-235) and the apse of the church, whose outline can be seen in one of the guesthouses' courtyard.
caption: Painting by Hubert Robert showing the demolition of the Feuillants church (musée Carnavalet).
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