PORT-ROYAL

the Cistercian convent which was so famous in connection with the Jansenist controversy in France, was founded in 1204 under the rule of St. Bernard, and was reorganized in 1609, and a second house was procured in 1625. Near the original house, P. R. des them—took Champs, a group of eminent men—Pascal among up their abode in 1636, and came to be regarded as a joint community with the nuns. The hostility of the Jesuits worked the ruin and di olution of the community who were Jansenists.