In 1701, Father de Montfort was considering the possibility of founding a religious order.

A meeting that took place in the same year proved to be the turning point: his encounter with Marie-Louise Trichet.

Two years later, in 1703, she became the first Daughter of Wisdom and adopted the name of Marie-Louise of Jesus.

After the death of Father de Montfort, Marie-Louise came to Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, where she established the Mother House of the Daughters of Wisdom in 1720.

Until the current building was constructed, the Sisters gathered in a small chapel built in 1782: the Founders’ Chapel.

Work on the new chapel began in 1860 and continued until 1869. Designed by Nantes architects Faucheur and Boismen, this monument was dedicated to Jesus, Wisdom Eternal in 1888.

The chapel’s delicately elegant exterior encloses many treasures, including its striking stained glass windows, its pulpit rich in symbolism and its choir closed off with a finely sculpted communion table.