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6500 M2 D'US IN DEAUVILLE
The Franciscaines site is located in Deauville, 5 minutes from the sea, 10 minutes from the Place de la Mairie de Deauville on foot, on Avenue de la République. Since its construction in 1876, it has fulfilled multiple missions: orphanage, school, hospital, and place of life of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters. In 2012, they chose to sell these buildings to the City of Deauville. They now reside near the site.



The Franciscans will take root a little more in a site that is part of the memory of the Deauvillais. This major project establishes a continuity between its past - devoted to hospitality and education - and its future vocation: mediation and transmission. It is the City's choice: to reinvest the heritage set in a new life rather than build new equipment.
The place is organized around the Saint-Joseph building (1876) originally composed of classrooms and dormitories on the first floor.
To the right of the Saint-Joseph building, the convent spaces reserved for the life of the Franciscans: a chapel, a square garden surrounded by a cloister and common rooms (refectory, kitchen, library, etc.). Upstairs, the sisters' rooms.
On the left of the Saint-Joseph building, a wing in a right angle, forming a square courtyard at the back.
After having suffered several refusals from religious communities to take care of children, the Franciscan nuns of Notre-Dame de Pitié in Perrou (Orne) accepted the proposal. Four sisters arrived in Deauville on June 29, 1878 with limited means. They founded in 1881 the COMMUNITY OF THE FRANCISCANS OF NOTRE-DAME DE LA PITIE DE DEAUVILLE.
New buildings were built in 1883 and 1897, notably with the help of the Biesta-Monrival family.
A HOUSEHOLD SCHOOL was founded in 1938 for young girls from the surrounding area.
The clinic was replaced by the polyclinic in 1973. It was then transformed into a rehabilitation center. An extension was built in 1977 including a swimming pool, adapted showers, occupational therapy and physiotherapy services.
They dedicate the land near the polyclinic to the construction of a real estate program consisting of 52 dwellings in rental usufruct: La Villa Gabrielle.
Finally, they propose to the City of Deauville to buy three buildings with a surface area of 4400m2 on the condition of preserving the spirit of places marked by transmission, education, sharing.
The financial conditions of the sale put back on the agenda the project of a place of culture for the City, abandoned in 2009 in an economic context of crisis.