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Bourgfontaine Charterhouse

Villers-Cotterêts, France, Europe

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View Larger MapDescription of institution: Charterhouse "founded in 1325, and suppressed by the Great Revolution in 1790" and "situated near Villers-Cotterets, in the diocese of Soissons" (Hendriks, 328). Described in a letter Dated 24 Dec. 1709 from Mary Towneley to Ralph Thoresby as a religious house in the order of St. Bruno (210). URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Carthusian_monasteries People linked to this location: Mentioned - Towneley, Mary (1686-1716)
Workplace or place of business - Towneley, Richard (1644-17 Jan 1729)
 Print Sources linked to this location: Mentioned - Letters Addressed to Ralph Thoresby, F.R.S.: Printed from the Originals in the Possession of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society