Port-Royal

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The Convent of Port-Royal was built in Paris in 1626 as an off-shoot of Port-Royal-des-Champs, the stronghold of Jansenist thought in France. It was closed in 1790, at the beginning of the French Revolution, and used as a prison starting in 1793, under the name of Prison de Port-libre or prison de la Bourbe. Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who had been Louis XVI's lawyer during his trial, and Madame de Tourzel, the former governor of the "children of France", were detained there.

It has now given its name to the RER suburban train station.