Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques

Its teaching activities were the origin of the collège des Jacobins, a college of the historic University of Paris.

The Dominican order established a base in Paris in 1217 in a house near Notre-Dame.

Major benefactions from Louis IX of France allowed the order to complete its church and build a dormitory and schools.

A wealthy merchant named Hennequin gave the order a gift in 1556 which enabled it to rebuild its cloister.

A few years before the French Revolution this room was used for services, since the church was closed and in disrepair.

Detail of the plan de Turgot showing the monastery church on rue Saint-Jacques, opposite the exit from rue Saint-Étienne-des-Grès (now rue Cujas ). In the foreground is the dome of the Sorbonne .
Plan of the couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc . Key - A: church; B: refectory (with the 'parloir aux bourgeois' on the other side of the enclosure) ; D: école Saint-Thomas.
Clementia of Hungary , from her effigy, originally in the monastery church.