Port-Royal Abbey

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Port-Royal Abbey was a prominent Cistercian convent in 17th-century France that became a center of Jansenist religious, educational, and intellectual life.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Port-Royal school 4
Port-Royal nuns 3
Port-Royal Abbey canonical 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cistercian convent
monastery
religious institution
activePeriod 17th century
associatedMovement Jansenism
associatedWith Mother Angélique Arnauld
surface form: Angélique Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld
Blaise Pascal
Cornelius Jansen
Jean Duvergier de Hauranne
Jean Racine
Pierre Nicole
Saint-Cyran
country France
currentUse historical site
museum
demolishedIn 1710
educationalFocus moral and religious instruction
rigorous classical education
educationalRole operated Petites écoles de Port-Royal
foundedBy Mathilde de Garlande
foundedIn 1204
hasPart Port-Royal de Paris
surface form: Petites écoles de Port-Royal
influenced French Catholic spirituality
French education
French literature
knownFor Jansenism
Port-Royal de Paris
surface form: Petites écoles de Port-Royal

education
intellectual life
religious reform
language French
locatedIn Île-de-France region
surface form: Île-de-France
locatedNear Chevreuse Valley
surface form: Chevreuse valley

Paris
opposedBy French monarchy
Society of Jesus
surface form: Jesuits

Louis XIV of France
surface form: Louis XIV

Society of Jesus
originalName Port-Royal-des-Champs
surface form: Port-Royal des Champs
religiousAffiliation Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
religiousOrder Cistercians
surface form: Cistercian Order
status ruins
subjectOf Jansenism
surface form: Jansenist controversy

religious controversies in 17th-century France
suppressedIn 1708
theologicalOrientation Augustinian theology
doctrine of grace

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Antoine Arnauld affiliation Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal school
Claude Lancelot movement Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal school
Jansenism centeredIn Port-Royal Abbey
Jacqueline Pascal religiousOrder Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal nuns
Jacqueline Pascal educatedAt Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal school
Pierre Nicole memberOf Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal school
Mother Angélique Arnauld influenced Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal nuns
Musée national de Port-Royal des Champs associatedWith Port-Royal Abbey
this entity surface form: Port-Royal nuns