page_title: Couvent des Feuillants
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Couvent des Feuillants / History
caption_attribution_description: "Le roi Henri III fait voir au bienheureux dom Jean de la Barrière le plan du monastère qu'il lui fait bâtir à Paris" (Vitrail du cloître du couvent des Feuillants de Paris).
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.
caption: Henry III and Jean de La Barrière on the convent building-site – 1790 engraving after one of the stained-glass windows in the convent's cloister.
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