Abbaye de Bon Repos

English translation

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History

The abbey of Bon Repos was founded in 1184 by Allain, viscount of Rohan, who installed Cistercian monks there. The ruins date from the 13th and 14th centuries. The outbuildings and vestiges surrounding the abbey date from the 14th and 18th centuries. Of the former abbey there remain only a pillar of the church and the walls of the claustral buildings, the rest having been destroyed after the sale of the abbey as national property in 1791, the materials having been reused in the surrounding reconstructions. The pillar belongs to the 13th century, but in the 18th century the leafed capitals of the columnettes were replaced by Doric capitals. An acknowledgment of 1686 shows that the convent comprised a square cloister surrounded by buildings, including the chapel. In the 18th century, only the 13th-century chapel was preserved during the reconstruction, the rest was replaced by new buildings.