Days near Paris . y, we should crossthe road, and then the railway by an iron bridge, to wherethe gate of the famous Abbey of Maubuisson still crosses alane on the right, and supports a covered passage. Thegreater part of the abbey ruins are in the beautiful gardensof the adjoining chateau, but travellers are allowed to seethem on applying to the concierge. When the abbey wasfounded, in 1236, by Queen Blanche of Castile for nunsof the order of Citeaux, it was at first called Notre Damela Royale; but the name of Maubuisson, which is that of ABBA YE DE MAUBUISSON 195 a neighboring fief, has prev
Days near Paris . y, we should crossthe road, and then the railway by an iron bridge, to wherethe gate of the famous Abbey of Maubuisson still crosses alane on the right, and supports a covered passage. Thegreater part of the abbey ruins are in the beautiful gardensof the adjoining chateau, but travellers are allowed to seethem on applying to the concierge. When the abbey wasfounded, in 1236, by Queen Blanche of Castile for nunsof the order of Citeaux, it was at first called Notre Damela Royale; but the name of Maubuisson, which is that of ABBA YE DE MAUBUISSON 195 a neighboring fief, has prevailed. As she felt the approachof death (1253), Queen Blanche summoned the abbess toher palace at Melun, and received the monastic habit fromher hands, and, after her death, she was buried, with greatpomp, in the church of Maubuisson. Here, in 1314,Blanche, daughter of Othelin, Comte de Bourgogne, andwife of Philippe de Poitiers, son of Philippe le Bel, ac-cused, with her two young sisters-in-law, of adultery, was. GATEWAY (aBBAYE DE MAUBUISSON). shut up for life. But the convent itself had a very scan-dalous reputation in later days, especially when AngeliquedEstrees, sister of the famous Gabrielle, obtained the ap-pointment of abbess from Henri IV., and spent five-and-twenty years in corrupting the sisterhood. Without any hyprocrisy, without any veil or subterfuge,she boldly organizes a worldly life. The abbey becomes that ofThelema ; cards, tables, receptions, promenades, dainty colla-tions, plenty of play acting, and dancing, all in company of gen-tle cavaliers, amuse the leisure of these recluses. This mirthfulabode is the meeting-place of the young nobility of the neighbor- 196 DA YS NEAR PARIS hood. Even the religious of St. Martin took their share in thefete, and nuns and monks gave themselves the pleasure of a balltogether.—Barron. Angelique Arnauld was sent from Port Royal to spendfive miserable years in the uphill work of reforming Mau-buisson, where she had been e
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