Montmartre Abbey

The Montmartre vineyard - all that remains of the abbey.
A 19th century pen and wash drawing of the adjoining church by Antoine-Louis Goblain.

The Montmartre Abbey (French: Abbaye de Montmartre) was a 12th-century Benedictine abbey established in the Montmartre district of Paris within the Diocese of Paris.

In 1133, King Louis VI purchased the Church of Saint Peter of Montmartre in order to establish the Abbey and rebuild the Merovingian church.[1] The rebuilt church was consecrated by Pope Eugenius III in 1147, in a splendid royal ceremony where Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter, Abbot of Cluny acted as acolytes.[2]

The abbey itself was destroyed during the French Revolution though the adjoining church itself survived. All that remains where the abbey once stood is a vineyard.

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  1. ↑ The Abbey of the Abbesses (France Monthly, Issue 1, 2004)
  2. ↑ Bailey K. Young, "Archaeology in an Urban Setting: Excavations at Saint-Pierre-de-Montmartre, Paris, 1975-1977", Journal of Field Archaeology 5.3 (Autumn 1978)

Coordinates: 48°53′17″N 2°20′24″E / 48.888°N 2.340°E