Monastère Saint-Joseph de Conflans, Cistercian monastery in Conflans, Albertville, France

The monastery Saint-Joseph is a former Cistercian convent in Conflans, situated between the Savoy Museum and the Saracen Tower. The complex comprises interconnected buildings with courtyards, residential quarters, and chapels that reflect a typical monastic layout from the 17th century.

Reformed Cistercian nuns, the Bernardines of La Roche-sur-Foron, settled in Conflans in summer 1637 at the request of Archbishop Benoît-Théophile de Chevron Villette; Duke Victor-Amédée granted letters patent on 21 June 1637. The Savoy Senate opposed the installation with rulings for twenty-two years. The nuns moved to an old fortified house in 1652 and acquired the Maison Rouge in 1714.

The nuns followed constitutions written in 1625 at the abbey of Les Ayes by Louise de Ballon and Louise de Ponçonnas, printed in Paris in 1631 and approved in Rome in 1634; the bishop of Annecy granted them the title Sœurs de la Providence in 1635. Their rule drew closer to the Visitation of Jeanne de Chantal, who visited the convent, than to Cîteaux. The community stayed loyal to Louise de Ballon in her dispute with Louise de Ponçonnas.

The former fortified house that housed the nuns from 1652 is today the Centre International de Séjour, so parts of the complex serve as accommodation. The nuns' first house stood on today's rue du Sénat, on the left of the street running from the Grande-Place to the Saracen tower. The Maison Rouge, acquired in 1714, opened onto the Grande-Place; its former enclosure, the courtil, lay on the esplanade de la Grande Roche, now a public garden.

The nuns moved into the old fortified house in 1652, but the community only acquired the Maison Rouge in 1714, and that house was a convent only in part. Its entrance opened onto the Grande-Place, while the cloister garden lay on the esplanade of the former castle, later a public garden.