The former Convent of Cordeliers in Paris !!!

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I have heard about it ,but it took me a while to stop by several years back, Once again found an older picture in my cd rom vault and should be in my blog for you and me. I was on my walking warrior mode in Paris and stumble onto this wonderful historical and architecturally stunning area of my eternal Paris. Therefore, glad to tell you about the former Convent of Cordeliers in Paris !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I.

The Cordeliers Convent, built in the 13C thanks to the generosity of Louis IX, of which only the refectory remains. Currently, it is part of the Faculté de Medicine or School of Medicine and includes, among other things, cutting-edge laboratories for cancer research.

In place of the old convent buildings demolished in 1880, the practical school of Medicine was built from 1900. Only the refectory was preserved, as well as part of the cloister foundations. In this vast quadrilateral, laboratories, dissection pavilions and an amphitheater were built. Today, the Cordeliers site is occupied by the UFR of Medicine of the University Paris Cité. On the ground floor, the magnificent 700 m2 room brought up to standard and renovated to host artistic and cultural events. The upper floors transformed into 34 studios and 5 T2 apartments intended to house young French and international researchers. Dating from the 18C, the pavilion adjoining the refectory were transformed into a reception pavilion.

The Cordeliers were Franciscan monks, so named because of the cord that girded their sackcloth robes. Founded thanks to the generosity of Jeanne d’Evreux, widow of King Charles IV the Fair, this convent holds a very important place in the religious and intellectual history of Paris. Coming from France and all over Europe, Franciscan monks came here to acquire or perfect their theological training. The convent library housed no fewer than 25,000 volumes at the time of the French revolution. The building measures approximately 57 meters long and 17 meters wide. It rises to a height of 24 meters. Its 14 bays rest on powerful buttresses and date from the years 1358-1370. The west facade and the portal were completed later, around 1506. The ground floor is occupied by the monks’ refectory. The staircase turret, designed externally as was customary, leads to the dormitory located on the 1st floor: its core consists of a single piece more than 12 meters high, notched to hold the steps. The decoration of the door is flourishing: an ogee arch is sculpted above the basket-handle arcade. Its branches are decorated with fleurons and cabbages. 300 inscriptions dating from the 17-18C are still visible on the north wall of the refectory: these are the names of religious men who obtained the degree of doctor of theology. During the French revolution, the Cordeliers club moved into a room in the convent that is now destroyed. Danton, Marat, and Desmoulins gave speeches there. Accused of conspiracy by Robespierre, a number of Cordeliers were guillotined in 1794.

The musée Dupuytren is a former museum of pathological anatomy created in 1835 by Mathieu Orfila. It was located at 15 rue de l’École-de-Médecine, within the former Cordeliers Convent, the grounds of what was for a long time the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, now occupied by the Faculty of Health of the University of Paris-Cité. It was named in honor of the French anatomist and surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren. Its collections were transferred to adapted reserves on the Jussieu site of the Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, now the Faculty of Sciences of Sorbonne University, in March 2016.

The official école de Medecine UFR université de Paris Cité site Cordeliers : https://u-paris.fr/medecine/site-des-cordeliers/

The official Refectory of the Cordeliers on its history : https://refectoiredescordeliers.rivp.fr/fr/patrimoine/histoire/

The Paris tourist office on the Refectory of the Cordeliers : https://parisjetaime.com/eng/convention/pro/le-refectoire-des-cordeliers-pc4324

There you go folks, never know where you are going to end up in Paris if you let your legs do the walking, always amazing my eternalParis. This is another example as to why the most beautiful City in the world , history and architecture all the best, enjoy it. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the former Convent of Cordeliers of Paris !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!

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I am a lover of travels to Europe , Americas , Africa and Asia as well ,who like to share my experiences of the last 53 years with the world, visiting so far 81 countries; living in 6, working in 5, and Citizen of 4, speaking fluently 4 languages. I can deal with sports especially football/soccer and love music, arts, wine collector/drinker, and go out to restaurants, and just visit the world. My background comes all the way from Candelaria and Pajara in Tenerife, Spain where my grandparents came from ;not knowing each other then, to Punta Brava, west of Havana, Cuba. There , my parents born in Cuba met and later on I was born there too. 100% guanche (annexed Tenerife to Spain on April 10 ,1496). I left Cuba as many have to Madrid, Spain where I lived for 4 years. Then, move to Perth Amboy ,New Jersey USA (living there 13 yrs) ; where I completed high school, became a US Citizen, learned to drive a car, and learned English. Afterward, went to the university in Florida, ERAU, and upon graduation decided to moved there to Ormond by the Sea, near Daytona Beach, finally moving North Miami, then Hialeah, then another moved to Silver Lakes division in Miramar, Broward county, Florida; in Florida I lived a total of 18 years. Finally , moved to France in 2003 ,Versailles call me for its royalty, and working in Paris was great. It was time to seek frontiers again and moved to Brech near Auray, Morbihan in Brittany , and later move to not too far Pluvigner. Total so far in France has been 20 years, and counting. Moving average a home every 5.5 years hopefully this will be my last. Cheers All rights reserved. No part of this blog may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the written permission of the copyright holder, me. No part of this work may be modified, without the written permission of the holder, me.No part of this work may be exposed to public view in any form or by any means, without identifying the holder as the author, and with the before mentioned permission.

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