Probably one of the most interesting to English people is the Couvent des Dames Anglaises, which was founded in 1629 by the English Augustinian Nuns of Ste.
He went, and three years passed before he returned and triumphed in a theological disputation held in the great hall of the Couvent de la Rive.
Though that part of Rouen's fortifications has disappeared, you may still see at the south-east angle of the old walls, a remnant of that Couventdes Célestins founded by the Duke of Bedford during the English occupation.
My visit to the Couvent des Oiseaux yesterday sharpened me for that to the Dames du Sacré Cœur to-day.
Billiers, who conducted me to the Couvent des Oiseaux, for the Supérieure of which le Père de Ravignan had given me a letter.
Some years ago a nun left the Couvent des Augustines in open day, passing out from the central door in her nun's garb, and meeting there a foreign-looking man accompanied by a posse of gendarmes.
The convent of cloisters, Couvent des Augustines, is passing rich, and has houses and lands to let.
The Lady Superior of the Couvent des Anglaises, who called her "Still Waters," had perhaps an inkling of something more than met the eye, existent in this pupil.
Couvent des Anglaises never succeeded in finding the victim, so that she must be there still.
In 1817, the Couvent des Anglaises was in vogue, the very convent which had served as a prison for the mother and grandmother of Aurore.
Queen Henrietta Maria used often to come and pray in the chapel, and this fact rendered the Couvent des Anglaises peculiarly dear to English royalists.
The three years passed by Aurore in the Couvent des Anglaises were, she tells us, happy ones for her, though almost without exception her schoolfellows were pining, or thought they were, for their homes and their mothers.
The Palais de Justice at Dole, with a magnificently carved portal, was formerly the Couvent des Cordeliers and dates from 1572.
Near theCouvent des Augustins he built himself a chateau of seven rooms and seven towers, after the death of his wife, Marie de Bourgogne, in 1434," say the chronicles.
Si je prends le manche a balai, Au couvent de la soeur Babet Je te mets pour la vie entiere, Et a grands coups de martinet On apaisera votre caquet!
The cloister of the Couvent des Carmes was remarkable as a masterpiece of architecture.
It occupied a large tract of land, says Wauters, between the Chaussée de Laeken and the Couvent des Dames Blanches, and contained several streets and spacious gardens.
I tell him that the arrangement has been made with the Commandant's consent, and I repeat firmly that he is to get into his car this minute and drive to the Couvent de Saint Pierre.
This thought is not prominent and vivid; it is barely discernible; but it is there, a dull background of pain under my anxiety for the safety of the English over there in the Couvent de Saint Pierre.
He knows nothing about the Couvent de Saint Pierre and Miss Ashley-Smith and three British wounded, and his shrug implies that he cares less.
When I was with him to-night I could think of nothing but the wounded in the Couvent de Saint Pierre.
Went over to the Couvent de Saint Pierre, where Miss Ashley-Smith is with her British wounded.
Miss Ashley-Smith and her friend are staying in the Couvent de Saint Pierre, where the British Field Hospital has taken some of its wounded.
I tell Tom that he is to drive me at once to the Couvent de Saint Pierre.
The Porte St. Andoche stood at the foot of the Boulevard Schneider, opposite to the Couvent du Sacrement, on the road leading, by way of the enceinte, to the Tour des Ursulines.
Rue du Temple, on the site of the vanished Couvent des Filles de Ste-Avoie, we see an old gabled house.
The famous couvent des Jacobins extended across the site of the Bibliothèque de l'École de Droit and adjacent structures.
The théâtre de Cluny is on the site of part of the vanished couventdes Mathurins.
Rue Froissard and Rue de Commines lie on the site of the razed couvent des Filles-du-Calvaire, of which vestiges are to be seen on the boulevard at No.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couvent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
