The Carmelite convent was founded in July 1630 by Magdeleine Egmont Chimay princess. The community consisted of 12 to 16 sisters from Liege. Dissolved the French Revolution, the various component convent buildings were sold on 21 Floreal Year 2 to Louis Joseph Maquenne for the sum of 32,000 pounds, before the land constituting the convent are dispersed among different owners.
At the time of that sale, the property consisted of: a church, three terraced houses with it, an intermediate building forming the junction with the above houses and a convent building called "new building" (the only existing today, instead of a former slate museum) and attached to the building, a former refectory and kitchen.
The church was destroyed between the redemption and the early nineteenth century. Two of the three houses and buildings were also destroyed intermediaries around 1972.