Longchamp Abbey

Longchamp Abbey (French: Abbaye royale de Longchamp), known also as the Convent of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin, was a convent of Poor Clares founded in 1255 in Auteuil, Paris, by Saint Isabelle of France.

[1] In furtherance of Isabelle's wish to found a nunnery of Poor Clares, her brother King Louis IX of France began in 1255 to acquire the necessary land in the Forest of Rouvray, not far from the Seine, west of Paris.

Subject to the Order of Friars Minor, some of the first nuns came from the Poor Clares in Reims.

Isabelle never joined the community herself, but did live in the abbey, in a room separate from the nuns’ cells.

In 1857 the remaining walls were pulled down, except for one tower, and the grounds were added to the Bois de Boulogne.