Carmel de la Place Maubert
carmel located in Paris, in France
The Carmel de la Place Maubert (French pronunciation: [kaʁmɛl də la plas mobɛʁ]), also known as the Grand Couvent or Couvent des Barrés (Latin: Monasterium de Mariae de Monte-Carmelo), was a house of the Calced Carmelites located on Place Maubert on a site now occupied by the police station for the 5th arrondissement below the Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, Paris.
Bibliography
Chronique dite de Jean de Venette (ed. and transl. Colette Beaune), LGF. Paris, 2011: "Ce chroniqueur français du XIVe siècle, prieur du couvent du Carmel, place Maubert, a légué des chroniques sur la vie de Paris de 1340 à 1368, témoignant notamment de la Grande Peste de 1348".
Epitaphier du Vieux-Paris
Joyaux et Pierreries donnés par Jeanne d'Évreux aux Carmes: Archives de l'art français: document collection
Les Grands Carmes de Paris in Abbayes, monastères et couvents de Paris, Paul and Marie-Louise Biver
Histoire de la ville et de tout le diocèse de Paris (volume 2), Jean Lebeuf
Aubin-Louis Millin, Antiquités nationales, 1792, pp.
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