page_title: Collège des Bernardins
section_title: Cistercian culture
hierarchical_section_title: Collège des Bernardins / References, notes and bibliography / Bibliography / Cistercian culture
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le collège des Bernardins de nuit (vue de la rue)
context_page_description: The Collège of Bernardins, or Collège Saint-Bernard, located no 20, rue de Poissy in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, is a former Cistercian college of the historic University of Paris. Founded by Stephen of Lexington, abbot of Clairvaux, and built from 1248 with the encouragement of Pope Innocent IV, it served until the French Revolution as the residence for the Cistercian monks, students at the University of Paris.
  After an overall renovation completed in September 2008, it is now a place for meetings, dialogues, training and culture, offering a rich program of public conferences and symposia, exhibitions, concerts, activities for young people and a theological and biblical studies center. Since 2009, it houses the Académie catholique de France.
  It has been the subject of a classification for French historical monuments since 10 February 1871.
context_section_description: Directed by Julie Roux, Les cisterciens, MSM, Vic-en-Bigorre, 2003 ISBN 2-911515-69-2 BNF 39026428z ; p. 320
  Georges Duby, Saint Bernard. L'art cistercien, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1976 ISBN 2-7004-0020-8 ; p. 222
caption: Collège des Bernardins after renovation - night shot
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