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List of Cistercian monasteries in France

The following is a list of Cistercian monasteries in France, including current and former Cistercian abbeys, and a few priories, on the current territory of France, for both monks and nuns.

These religious houses have belonged, at different times, to various congregations or groups within the Cistercian order, among which the most important, for the French monasteries, are:

Many of these monasteries during the course of their existence have been both Cistercian and Benedictine: see also List of Benedictine monasteries in France.

The dates in brackets are those of the beginning and the end of a monastery's status as a Cistercian house, which may be different from its dates of foundation and suppression.

The names of currently active Cistercian abbeys and independent priories are in bold. Apart from a very few unusually significant ones, dependent priories no longer operational are not usually listed.

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  • Estanche, see L'Étanche
  • L'Estrée Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Estrée, also Abbaye royale de l'Estrée), monks (founded 1140s), later nuns (1684-1791), diocese of Évreux (Muzy, Eure)
  • L'Étanche Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de L'Étanche), nuns, diocese of Toul (Rollainville, Vosges)
  • L'Étoile Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de l'Étoile), monks (Archigny, Vienne)

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  • Jau Abbey, also Clariana Abbey (Abbaye de Jau, Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Jau, Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Clariane, Santa Maria de Clariana), monks, diocese of Perpignan (Col de Jau, Mosset, Pyrénées-Orientales)
  • La Joie Abbey or Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-la-Joie (Abbaye de la Joie, Abbaye Notre-Dame-de-la-Joye), nuns, diocese of Vannes (1252–1792) (Hennebont, Morbihan)
  • Abbey of La Joie-lès-Nemours (Abbaye de la Joie-lès-Nemours, Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Joie, Abbaye Sainte-Marie-lès-Nemours, Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Saussaie), nuns, diocese of Sens (1231–1751) (Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours, Seine-et-Marne)
  • Abbey of La Joie-Notre-Dame (Abbaye de la Joie-Notre-Dame de Campénéac), nuns, diocese of Vannes (founded 1953, as successor to the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Bonne-Garde at Sainte-Anne-d'Auray, founded 1920) (Campénéac, Morbihan)
  • Jouy Abbey, monks, diocese of Sens, later Meaux (Chenoise, Seine-et-Marne)

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  • Saint-Sigismond Abbey, nuns (Orthez, France)
  • Saint-Sulpice-en-Bugey Abbey, monks, diocese of Belley (Thézillieu, Ain)
  • Sainte-Acire Abbey (or Priory?) (Seine-Port, Seine-et-Marne)
  • St. Catherine's Abbey, nuns, diocese of Geneva
  • St. Catherine's Abbey, Avignon, nuns, diocese of Avignon (Avignon)
  • Sainte-Croix Abbey, nuns, diocese of Apt
  • Sainte-Houlde Abbey (or Hoïlde or Hould): see Le Val d'Ornain
  • Les Salenques Abbey (also known as Abondance-Dieu Abbey) (Les Bordes-sur-Arize, Ariège)
  • Salvane or Silvanis Abbey, see Sylvanès

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  • Ubexy Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Joseph d'Ubexy), Trappistine nuns (founded 1841; priory from 1847; abbey from 1878; dissolved 2012, when the remaining nuns transferred to Igny Abbey) (Ubexy, Vosges)
  • Ulmet Abbey, also known as Aumet Abbey (Abbaye d'Ulmet or d'Aumet), monks, diocese of Arles (founded 1173; community mostly moved to Sylvéréal Abbey in the third quarter of the 13th century; finally abandoned in 1437) (in the Camargue, commune of Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône; the ruins, near the Étang de Fournelet, are now included in the Réserve naturelle nationale de Camargue)

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