Weathered Gothic stone walls standing in the gardens of the Hôpital Broca belong to the former Couvent des Cordelières. These remnants are the last architectural traces of a monastery founded in the late thirteenth century by Marguerite of Provence, the widow of King Louis the Ninth. Following the death of the king, Marguerite established this house for the Franciscan Clarisses, and her daughter, Blanche of France, lived there until her death in thirteen twenty.
Couvent des Cordelières
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