 During the Napoleonic Wars the Convent found itself providing shelter to émigré priests from the continent.Mother Superior Catherine Rouby, the Superior at the time, also provided shelter to fugitive nuns including Carmelites from Brabant, Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre from Liège and Poor Clares from Dunkirk.Émigré families also sent their daughters to the school and several stayed on to become nuns in the community.