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Bâtiment dit Les Dames Blanches

La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Façades et toitures (cad. AB 251) : inscription par arrêté du 5 août 1980
Protection dates
1980/08/05 : inscrit MH
Type
couvent
Main period of construction
19e siècle
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
place Jean-Baptiste-Marcet
Commune
La Rochelle
Département
Charente-Maritime
Region
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Country
France
Coordinates
46.16032, -1.14872
Mérimée reference
PA00104874

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "Plan de la Rochelle." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

En 1715, les soeurs de Notre-Dame de la Charité du Refuge, connues sous le nom de Dames Blanches, installèrent leur couvent à l'angle des rues Saint-Louis et des Trois-Marteaux. Pendant la Révolution, l'établissement devint une prison puis un hôpital de la maternité. Au 19e siècle, le couvent fut reconstitué dans une dépendance de l'ancien monastère des Recollets. Les bâtiments se présentaient, à l'origine, en deux pavillons isolés, placés perpendiculairement aux deux grands immeubles de l'arsenal, mais d'un seul niveau. Les deux constructions ont été réunies par une plus basse.

English translation

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In 1715, the sisters of Notre-Dame de la Charité du Refuge, known as the White Ladies, established their convent at the corner of rue Saint-Louis and rue des Trois-Marteaux. During the Revolution, the establishment became a prison and then a maternity hospital. In the 19th century, the convent was reconstituted in an outbuilding of the former Recollets monastery. The buildings were originally arranged in two isolated pavilions, placed perpendicular to the two large buildings of the arsenal, but of only one storey. The two constructions were linked by a lower structure.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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