Feuillantines

Feuillantines , religious S Bernardin be narrow obédiance which followed the reform of the Breaking into leaf.

The feuillantines or breaking into leaf were created by Jean of the Barrier. Approved by the pope Sixth-Quint, they had for first higher Marguerite de Polestron. Their first convent, establishes has Montesquiou (Gers) in 1588 was transferred has Toulouse in 1599. Anne of Austria, at the request of Anne Gobelin, girl of one of the celebrates dyer of this name, made come has Paris a colony of feuillantines in 1622 and establishes them in the Saint-Jacob Suburb, on the site of the street which keeps their name.

The feuillantines wore a white wool dress and a black veil.

The French revolution put an end has their congregation.

See too

Source

  • New Larousse Illustrated; Encyclopedic Universal dictionary , published under the direction of Claude Augé, fourth volume (E-G), edition year 1900.

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