They might form a Social Beguinage, on the model of the one at Ghent.
"Happy-Thought Hall"
F. C. Burnand
"The queen of France must, indeed, be very ill," said Anne of Austria, "if it is known at the Beguinage of Bruges that she stands in need of being cured."
"Louise de la Valliere"
Alexandre Dumas, Pere
To found a Beguinage at Paris seemed to her the most befitting mode of devoting her wealth; and her little admirer, Alice, gave up her longing desire that the foundation should be in England, when she learned that, as the wife of Nevil, her abode was likely to be in France as long as that country required English garrisons.
"The Caged Lion"
Charlotte M. Yonge