Brood Jacobins (Rennes)

The convent of the Jacobins is located place Holy-Anne at Rennes. It contains a Abbatiale, a Cloître, conventual buildings.

A middle-class man of Rennes, Pierre Rouxel, would be at the origin of the convent, by a gift in 1367, but the duke Jean IV collected the role of the Fondateur. He posed the first stone of them. In this place, engagement of Anne of Brittany and Charles VIII was celebrated. It is necessary to announce the role of Our-Lady-of-Good-News, a table of the 15th century representing the Vierge, which is today with. He made convent a place of Pèlerinage, and Prédication.

In 1624, whereas the Peste prevails, the town of Rennes offers a Vœu of money, a model which disappeared then, there would have been a reproduction. The convent knows the height of its development at the 17th century, it counts then an about sixty monk Dominicain S and is recognized like a training center. The Bibliothèque will count up to 5.000 volumes. The continuation corresponds to the decline of the convent, until its end with the Révolution. The building belongs then to the army, which transforms it into Caserne. The army sold this monument in May 2002 with Rennes Métropole. The convent will be the epicentre of #REDIRECT the Workshops of Rennes - Biennial of contemporary art in 2008.

External bonds

Card of inventory of the inheritance

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