Port-Royal Abbey, Paris

thumb|The 17th-century Cloître de Port-Royal, a remnant of the former abbey, now part of the Hôpital Cochin
Port-Royal Abbey was an Abbey in Paris. It was first built in 1626 to relieve pressure of numbers on the mother house at Port-Royal-des-Champs and was a stronghold of Jansenism. 
Famous people who stayed here include Marie de Rohan, intriguer during the Fronde; Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, future mistress of a Duke of Savoy; Marie Angélique de Fontanges, future mistress of Louis XIV of France died here giving birth to his child who also died. 
It was closed down in 1790, at the beginning of the French Revolution and from 1793 used as a prison under the name Prison de Port-libre or Prison de la Bourbe. Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (lawyer for Louis XVI during his trial) and Madame de Tourzel, former governess of the "children of France", were held here.
Today its main cloister (illustration) forms part of the modern Hôpital Cochin.
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== Notable Patrons ==
*Blaise Pascal
*Jacqueline Pascal, sister of Blaise Pascal
*Madame du ValoisMary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck, Select Memoirs of Port Royal.
== Footnotes ==
Category:1626 establishments
Category:Buildings and structures in Paris
Category:Cistercian nunneries
Category:Defunct prisons in Paris
Category:Churches in Paris
Category:Christian monasteries in France
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