Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey) (Corporate Name)

Delforge, F. Les Petites Ecoles de Port-Royal, 1985: t.p. (Port-Royal) p. 11, etc. (Port-Royal des Champs)

LC data base, 10-24-85 (hdg.: Port-Royal des Champs (Abbey of Cistercian nuns); usage: Port Royal)

Grand dict. encycl. Larousse (Port-Royal: abbey, vallée de Chevreuse, founded 1204 (Cistercian in 1225): Latin form, Portus Regius; a group of nuns formed an annex to Port-Royal des Champs called Port-Royal de Paris in 1625; a struggle developed between the head cloister and the annex which ended in the independence of the cloister in Paris in 1668, and the destruction of Port-Royal des Champs in 1710; the Jansenist movement was totally suppressed in France in 1790, and found refuge in the Netherlands)

Grote Winkler Prins (Port-Royal; Cistercian abbey in France, outside of Paris; head cloister: Port-Royal-des-Champs, annex, Port-Royal-des-Paris; group found support in Utrecht in 1723, without the permission of the Pope)