Abbey of St. Victor, Paris
Saint -Victor was a royal abbey southeast of medieval Paris. She stood outside the city walls Étienne Marcel in today's 5th arrondissement.
History
Saint -Victor was in 1113 by King Louis VI. founded on the left bank of the Bièvre. The monastery housed a community of monks to the theologian William of Champeaux, the first great Parisian theologians, and from the beginning was one of the intellectual and spiritual centers of Paris.
William of Champeaux had given up his job as scholastics at Notre Dame, to retire to a monastery. However, the reunification of his students soon brought him to resume his teaching career again, and set up what was to become the Congregation of the Augustinian Canons should be the Holy Victor, which should be the Leitabtei an Order with 30 abbeys and 40 priories quickly, whose monastic rule from the first abbot, Geudion comes.
The fact that William of Champeaux was from this foundation, has certainly contributed to the rapid development of the monastic school. Saint -Victor was in the 12th century one of the most active centers of intellectual life, and his charisma handed over the whole of western Christendom. The abbey church was the seven cardinals. According to William of Champeaux, was especially Hugh of St. Victor ( 1118-1141 ) significant. Close links exist between the teachers in Saint -Victor and Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090-1153 to ), which in turn Peter Lombard told them. In addition to theology, the seven liberal arts were the subject of special attention in Saint -Victor. Hugh of Saint - Victor was the prevailing view, according to which the knowledge of the world is a whole, which would lead to the knowledge of God - studying in Saint -Victor, especially the classical works and the logic, but also the science and cosmography.
Behind the palace of the abbot were the Romanesque church, the monastery, the library and the scriptorium. Gardens and orchards on the other side of the Bièvre extended down to the Seine. Surrounded by a wall monastery grounds had the shape of a trapezoid, and extended up to today's Jardin des Plantes. At the southern tip of the railing stood at the corner of the old Chemin Devers -Seine (which, as the name suggests, for His leading down, today's Rue Cuvier ), was the tour Alexandre, which was used in medieval times as a monastic prison. The tower was in 1672 a sculpted by Bernini fountain, which was destroyed in the 19th century and replaced by the Fontaine Cuvier.
Around the monastery soon developed in the protection of the monastery is a place of the same name. The road leading out of Paris to the monastery, called Rue Saint -Victor, the associated gate Porte Saint -Victor. The monastery was destroyed under Louis XIV. The place is now as Quartier Saint -Victor to the 5th arrondissement.
At the point at which the Abbey of Saint -Victor was in the Middle Ages, is now the University of Pierre and Marie Curie ( UPMC ), the Rue Jussieu before passing through the former choir of the monastery church. The vegetable and fruit gardens of the monastery are now by the University Denis Diderot ( Jussieu ) - continue up to the Seine down - built on.