In 1822, the administrative commission charged with the management of the Carthusian monastery spoke of ruins, the entire monastery having been pillaged by the neighboring townships. As a result an auction was held and on January 28, 1836, the Carthusian Order repurchased the monastery for the sum of 65300 Francs.

Once again the Chartreuse de Valbonne was reborn from its ashes. Restoration and new construction followed. The Family Chapel as well as the Chapel of Relics dates from this period. A complete resurrection ensued: Gregorian chants sounded again inside, fields outside were cultivated anew, stables were repopulated and the herds restored. Strangers and needy persons were, as in the past, welcomed at the courtyard's entry and one would have thought that this buzzing hive was prepared for a great future.

Yet, just as the Carthusian monastery regained its life and serenity, its only aspirations being peace, tranquility, and silence for prayer and contemplation, a virulent quarrel occurred at the state level about the "lay issue". The Combes law of July 1st, 1901 placed religious communities under the control of the state which could authorize them - or not - according to their usefulness. The monks of Valbonne, as well as those of the other Carthusian monasteries of France, refusing to submit, were forced into exile. They left for Spain where they re-established the Aula Dei monastery which had been partly devastated during the two sieges of Saragossa by Napoleon Bonaparte.

This time, the monks had to abandon their home definitively and Dom Gorce, the last prior, left Valbonne on September 30, 1901.