page_title: List of Cistercian monasteries in France
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hierarchical_section_title: List of Cistercian monasteries in France / B
caption_attribution_description: English: The cistercian abbey Our Lady of Bonneval, in Le Cayrol (France). Website http://www.abbaye-bonneval.com Français&#160;: L'abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame de Bonneval et le ravin de la Boralde Flaujaguèse, Le Cayrol, Aveyron, France. Site web: http://www.abbaye-bonneval.com
context_page_description: The following is a list of Cistercian monasteries in France, including current and former Cistercian abbeys, and a few priories, on the current territory of France, for both monks and nuns.
  These religious houses have belonged, at different times, to various congregations or groups within the Cistercian order, among which the most important, for the French monasteries, are:
  the Cistercians of the Common Observance, including the Cistercian Congregation of the Immaculate Conception;
  the Congregation of the Feuillants
  the Trappists
  the Bernardine Cistercians of Esquermes
  Many of these monasteries during the course of their existence have been both Cistercian and Benedictine: see also List of Benedictine monasteries in France.
  The dates in brackets are those of the beginning and the end of a monastery's status as a Cistercian house, which may be different from its dates of foundation and suppression.
  The names of currently active Cistercian abbeys and independent priories are in bold. Apart from a very few unusually significant ones, dependent priories no longer operational are not usually listed.
context_section_description: Balerne Abbey, in Franche-Comté, monks, diocese of Besançon, later diocese of Saint-Claude (Mont-sur-Monnet, Jura)
  Barbeau Abbey (also known as Barbeaux Abbey), monks, diocese of Sens (1147–1793) (Fontaine-le-Port, Seine-et-Marne)
  Barbery Abbey, monks, diocese of Bayeux (Barbery and Bretteville-sur-Laize, Calvados)
  Barzelle Abbey (also Barzelles Abbey), monks, diocese of Bourges (Poulaines, Indre)
  Battant Abbey, nuns, diocese of Besançon (Besançon, Doubs)
  Baumgarten Abbey, monks (1148-1525) (Bernardvillé, Bas-Rhin)
  Beaubec Abbey, monks, diocese of Rouen (Beaubec-la-Rosière, Seine-Maritime)
  Beaugerais Abbey, monks, diocese of Tours (Loché-sur-Indrois, Indre-et-Loire)
  Beaulieu Abbey, also Beaulieu-en-Bassigny Abbey, monks, diocese of Langres (Hortes, Haute-Amance, Haute-Marne)
  Beaulieu-en-Rouergue Abbey, also known as Belloc Abbey, monks, diocese of Rodez (Ginals, Tarn-et-Garonne)
  Beaupré Abbey, monks, diocese of Beauvais (1135-?1791) (Achy, Oise)
  Beaupré Abbey, diocese of Toul (1135–1790), later Nancy (Moncel-lès-Lunéville, Meurthe-et-Moselle)
  Beaupré Abbey (also known as Beaupré-sur-la-Lys Abbey), nuns, diocese of Saint-Omer (La Gorgue, Nord)
  Beauvoir Abbey, nuns, diocese of Bourges (Marmagne, Cher)
  Bégard Abbey, monks, diocese of Tréguier (Bégard, Côtes-d'Armor)
  Bellaigue Abbey, monks, diocese of Clermont (founded in 950 as a Benedictine priory, elevated to an abbey in 1136; ; Cistercian 1137-1791; re-founded as a Benedictine priory in 2000 (Virlet, Puy-de-Dôme)
  Belleau Abbey, from 1510 Belleau Priory (otherwise Belle Eau or Belle-Eau), nuns (Villeneuve-la-Lionne, Marne)
  Bellebranche Abbey, monks, diocese of Le Mans (Saint-Brice, Mayenne)
  Bellecombe Abbey, nuns, diocese of Le Puy (Yssingeaux, Haute-Loire)
  Bellefontaine Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bellefontaine), Trappist monks (Bégrolles-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire)
  Belleperche Abbey, monks, diocese of Montauban (Cordes-Tolosannes, Tarn-et-Garonne)
  Bellevaux Abbey, monks, diocese of Besançon (Cirey, Haute-Saône)
  Belloc Abbey, see Beaulieu-en-Rouergues
  Belmont Abbey, nuns (Belmont, Haute-Marne)
  Belval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Belval), nuns (formerly Troisvaux, Pas-de-Calais, now Saint Pol sur Ternoise)
  Bénisson-Dieu Abbey, nuns, diocese of Lyon (La Bénisson-Dieu, Loire)
  Bénisson-Dieu Abbey (also known as Nisors or Nizors Abbey), monks, diocese of Comminges (1184-?) (Boulogne-sur-Gesse, Haute-Garonne)
  Berdoues Abbey (also known as Berdouès Abbey), diocese of Auch (Berdoues, Gers)
  Le Betton Abbey, nuns, diocese of Maurienne (Betton-Bettonet, Savoie)
  Beuil Abbey, see Bœuil Abbey
  Biache Abbey, nuns, diocese of Noyon (Biache-Saint-Vaast, Pas-de-Calais)
  Billon Abbey or Buillon Abbey (Abbaye de Billon, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Billon, also de Buillon), monks, archdiocese of Besançon (Chenecey-Buillon, Doubs)
  Bithaine Abbey, monks, diocese of Besançon (Adelans-et-le-Val-de-Bithaine, Haute-Saône)
  Bival Abbey, nuns, diocese of Rouen (Nesle-Hodeng, Seine-Maritime)
  La Blanche en Noirmoutier Abbey, diocese of Luçon (Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, Vendée)
  Abbaye Blanche, sometimes Abbaye des Blanches, nuns, diocese of Avranches (Mortain, Manche)
  Blanche-Couronne Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Blanche-Couronne), monks (founded c. 1160, but apparently not Cistercian until later) diocese of Nantes (La Chapelle-Launay, Loire-Atlantique)
  Blauvac Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon Secours de Blauvac), nuns, diocese of Avignon (1927-) (Blauvac, Vaucluse)
  Blendecques Abbey (also known as Blandecques Abbey), nuns, diocese of Saint-Omer (Blendecques, Pas-de-Calais)
  Bœuil Abbey, also Beuil or Le Beuil Abbey (Abbaye de Bœuil, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bœuil or Beuil), monks, diocese of Limoges (1123–1790) (Veyrac, Limousin)
  Bohéries Abbey, monks, diocese of Laon (Bohéries, later Vadencourt-et-Bohéries, nowadays Vadencourt, Aisne)
  Bois-Grolland Abbey, diocese of Luçon (Poiroux, Vendée)
  La Boissière Abbey, monks, diocese of Angers (Dénezé-sous-le-Lude, Maine-et-Loire)
  Bondeville Abbey, nuns, diocese of Rouen (priory to 1657, thereafter royal abbey to 1790) (Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville, Seine-Maritime)
  Bonlieu Abbey (also kn
caption: Bonneval Abbey (Aveyron)
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