In its early days, the community was an important link between the Merovingian Frankish Empire and the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Kent and East Anglia.
Around 1094 Philip I of France wrote the abbot of Marmoutier and "...asked him to reform the monastery of Faremoutiers because of the nuns' dissolute lifestyle".
In 1683, at the request of Louis XIV, architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart took charge of the reconstruction of the main building of the Abbey.
Anna Gonzague de Clèves-Nevers, daughter of Charles I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, was educated at Faremoutiers.
[4] The abbey was later tainted by Jansenism, and in the 18th century suffered from an exhausting lawsuit with the bishop of Meaux and continuing economic problems.
In 1923 Benedictine nuns from the Abbaye Saint-Nicolas de Verneuil settled in Amillis before founding in 1931 a small community on the site of Faremoutier abbey, which remains to this day.