Boulaur (; oc, Bonlau) is a

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in the Gers department in southwestern

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Boulaur Abbey, or St Mary's Abbey, Boulaur (french: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Boulaur), is a monastery of

Cistercian nuns Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order belonging to the Roman Catholic branch of the Catholic Church. History The first Cistercian monastery for women, Le Tart Abbey, was established at Tart-l'Abbaye in th ...

. It was founded in the 12th century as a priory of the Order of Fontevraud that was abolished during the

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. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century but were expelled under the Associations Act of 1901 (the

Waldeck-Rousseau Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau (; 2 December 184610 August 1904) was a French Republican politician who served as the Prime Minister of France. Early life Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau was born in Nantes, Brittany. His father, René W ...

Law). Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about 30 nuns. In 2022 they declared their intention to resettle the

Trappist The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance ( la, Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae, abbreviated as OCSO) and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a ...

Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges The Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges or Our Lady of the Snows (french: Abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) is a Trappist monastery in the Ardèche ''département'' of south-central France. It was built in 1850, located on the territory of the commune of S ...

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