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Abbaye de la Déserte

Lyon, Italy

The Abbaye de la Déserte or Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Déserte ("Our Lady of the Wasteland") was a nunnery in Lyon, France. Founded in 1303 by Louis de Villars, Archbishop of Lyon, and Blanche de Chalon (Lady of Belleville), who was also the first abbess, it housed the Poor Clares from 1304 till 1503,

and then Benedictine nuns from 1503 to the French Revolution, when it was dissolved. It was demolished in 1814.

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