Abbaye-aux-Bois

A black-and-white photograph taken from the vantage point of a person standing in the rectangular courtyard at Abbaye-aux-Bois. The grounds have rectangular plots of small plants, surrounded by grass cut very short. A brick path lines the walls of the four-storey building surrounding the courtyard.
The courtyard garden at Abbaye-aux-Bois. (1905)
1905 architectural plan of Abbaye-aux-Bois, archived by the Municipal Commission of Old Paris.

The Abbey of the Woods (French: Abbaye-aux-Bois) was a Bernardine (i.e., Cistercian) convent in Paris, with buildings at 16 rue de Sèvres and at 11 rue de la Chaise in the 7th arrondissement. The buildings used by the convent were repurposed several times before their destruction in 1907.