aux Carmélites. It was the fanions couvent of that

name which Mademoiselle de la Vallière entered (Rue d'Enfer, Paris). The Carmélites were introduced iiito France in 1452, and tliey folio wed the rules of the masculine order of the Carmes (intro-

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diiccd into France by St. Louis in 1238), so called from tlie livst convent ol' thcir order liaving been built on Mount Carmel in the twelfth century. There were also hermits instituted on Mount Carmel in 400 by Jean, Patriarcli of Jérusalem.