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A patriotic factory
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In 1791, Jean Joseph de Bourguet de Travanet, known as the citizen Bourguet, bought the Royaumont abbey. He immediately had the abbey church demolished and set up a cotton mill in the monastery buildings. All that remains of the church is a 36-metre high staircase and the south wall adjacent to the cloister. In 1792, Bourguet was arrested for having been the banker for the game of Queen Marie-Antoinette. In his defence, the former marquis did not hesitate to describe King Louis IX as “a tyrant called Saint Louis by superstition” and to claim that he had built a patriotic factory. He was released in 1794 and died the following year.
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