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Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques
Dominican monastery in Paris, France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Couvent Saint-Jacques,[1] Grand couvent des Jacobins or Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques[2] was a Dominican monastery on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, France. Its complex was between what are now rue Soufflot and rue Cujas. Its teaching activities were the origin of the collège des Jacobins, a college of the historic University of Paris.
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