Filles de Dieu (the Daughters of God) is a convent and hospital in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris, a refuge and place of pious confinement in 1648 for women who were fleeing, ill or without other shelter.

TypeConvent and hospital
Year1648
PlaceSaint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
Spanish entry Hospital)

Nature

It did not require permanent vows or strict enclosure from all the women it took in. Its function was charitable rather than strictly monastic: a network of assistance for women operating in the shadow of the major abbey. During the Fronda, when hunger and military disorder threw women into the street, it received more than it could hold.

Madeline Boulet

Madeline Boulet was taken there during her convalescence from the American Fever. The Archive places the institution as subordinate to the Saint-Germain-des-Prés setting, closely tied to her story and to the period after the pact she made with forces the convent would never have blessed (Madeline-Murmur Pact).