Editing Cîteaux Abbey (section)

=== Penitentiary colony ===
The Cîteaux Abbey see the establishment in 1846 of the agricultural penitentiary colony led by Father Joseph Rey.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rey |first=Coraline |date=2021-06-25 |title=Les bâtiments de l’abbaye de Cîteaux : bilan et nouvelles données issues des sources comptables, xiie-xve siècle |url=https://journals.openedition.org/cem/18424#:~:text=L'abbaye%20de%20C%C3%AEteaux%20a,la%20biblioth%C3%A8que,%20%C3%A9difi%C3%A9e%20en%201509. |journal=Bulletin du centre d’études médiévales d’Auxerre {{!}} BUCEMA |language=fr |issue=25.1 |doi=10.4000/cem.18424 |issn=1623-5770|doi-access=free }}</ref> The colony was intended to detain minors and teach them a trade. The educational methods were similar to military methods, and from 1883, reports revealed poor hygiene, nutrition, and teaching conditions, and the Ministry of the Interior no longer sent prisoners to this colony. They would henceforth be entrusted to public colonies. The scandal of 1888, brought up before the National Assembly, led to the withdrawal of recognition of public utility from the Society of the Brothers of St Joseph. This lasted until 1895.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abbaye de Citeaux, Abbaye Cistercienne en Bourgogne |url=https://les-plumes.com/abbaye-de-citeaux/ |access-date=2025-05-11 |language=fr-FR}}</ref> The Cîteaux estate then passed into state hands. Cîteaux became a monastery again in 1898, when the Trappist monks settled there.