1797
The French occupying forces chase away the Sisters Apostoline with their lace school from the buildings in the Ezelstraat who find a forced accomodation in the Pottemakersstraat.

1835
The family Adornes offers to the Sisters Apostoline a dilapidated building in the Peperstraat. They get this building in levy rent together with the adjacent Jerusalem Church and the surrounding horticultural land. Although the monastery and the school are situated in the common Sint-Anna quarter, the thriving lace school does not turn to the working class girls, but rather to the upper-class daughters. This makes the lace school is called " bourgeois school ".