Boulaur

Boulaur
Commune
Abbey
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Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E / 43.5417°N 0.7747°E / 43.5417; 0.7747Coordinates: 43°32′30″N 0°46′29″E / 43.5417°N 0.7747°E / 43.5417; 0.7747
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Astarac-Gimone
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Ruetsch
Area 1	9.03 km2 (3.49 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	186
• Density	21/km2 (53/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32061 /32450
Elevation	162–285 m (531–935 ft) (avg. 155 m or 509 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Boulaur is a Cistercian Abbey in the Gers department in southwestern France.

Geography[]

Boulaur and its surrounding communes

Population[]

Abbey[]

St Mary's Abbey of Boulaur, a former priory of the Order of Fontevraud, is a monastery of Cistercian nuns. It was founded in the 12th century and was originally a Fontevrist monastery that was abolished during the French Revolution. Cistercian nuns reinstated it at the end of the 19th century, and were expelled under the Associations Act of 1901. Monastic life was definitively restored in 1949. In 2011 the community had about thirty nuns.

See also[]

• Communes of the Gers department

References[]

Further reading[]

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• Histoire de l'ordre de Fontevrault, 1100-1908; by the Religious of Sainte-Marie-de-Fontevrault-de-Boulaur (afterwards at Vera in Navarre). 3 vols. Auch, 1911–15

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