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    L'Abbaye de Créteil or Abbaye group (French: Le Groupe de l'Abbaye) was a utopian artistic and literary community founded during the month of October,...
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    Lord of Léon (died in 1240) After Anne's death, he married a daughter of Morvan, Viscount of Le Faou. According to the necrology of the Abbaye Saint-Guénolé...
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    The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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    The Abbey of Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre (French: Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre; Breton: Abati Lokmazhe Penn-ar-Bed) is a former Breton monastery...
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    The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève) was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became...
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    Vaisse, Pierre (dir.). op. cit. p. 315. "Palais Saint-Pierre ou ancienne abbaye des Dames de Saint-Pierre". Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. Le Febvre...
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    chronicler Geoffroy du Breuil of Vigeois worked in its library. The abbaye de Saint-Martial, one of the great pilgrimage churches of western Christianity...
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  • Guernec as Alice (Ep 5) Voltaire High: Abbaye royale, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France Magnan Butcher: 9 rue de Verdun, Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France Voltaire High...
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    Ouche Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Evroul (French: Abbaye de Saint-Évroult; Medieval Latin: Sanctus Ebrulphus Uticensis) is a former Benedictine abbey...
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  • the sea, and on the coasts at Saint Mathieu, Plougonvelin and le Conquet". Today abandoned, the Abbaye Saint-Mathieu de Fine-Terre, was said to have held...
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    i-m-patron.gr. "La croix de Saint André". Vexil.prov.free.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Denoël 2004. "Abbaye Saint-Victor de Marseille, monuments historiques...
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    Abbey, formally called the Abbey of St. Martin of Ligugé (French: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé), is a French Benedictine monastery in the Commune of Ligugé...
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    Mouton Rothschild. In 1878, Charlotte bought the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay in Cernay-la-Ville in the Vallée de Chevreuse, at the time only a ruins of a Cistercian...
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    (–Cornouaille) and Léon (Latin: Dioecesis Corisopitensis (–Cornubiensis) et Leonensis; French: Diocèse de Quimper (–Cornouaille) et Léon) is a Latin Church...
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  • Diocese of Léon (Plougonvelin, Finistère) Abbey of St. Maur (Abbaye de Saint-Maur, Abbaye des Fossés or Abbaye de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés), monks (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    north of the town were the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe [fr] neighborhood and Leffe faubourg. To the south, the Rivages and Saint-Nicolas neighborhoods extended...
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    Louis Antoine Léon Riesener (21 January 1808 – 25 May 1878) was a French Romantic painter. Enchanted by the play of light and reflections which transformed...
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    Abbayes et prieurés de l'ancienne France, vol. 8:"Province ecclésiastique de Tours" Dom Léon Guilloreau: Prieurés anglais de la dépendance de Saint-Serge...
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    Count of Léon. He was the eldest of fifteen brothers and five sisters, several of whom, such as Judoc and Guinien, were revered as saints. When Judhael...
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    Cluny Abbey (redirect from Abbaye de Cluny)
    Cluny Abbey (French: [klyni]; French: Abbaye de Cluny, formerly also Cluni or Clugny; Latin: Abbatia Cluniacensis) is a former Benedictine monastery in...
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  • Acarius (redirect from Saint Acarius)
    source, which is in the public domain. "Saint Acharius of Tournai". 8 March 2009. "November 27", Abbaye Notre-Dame de Tomié Portals: Biography Catholicism...
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    back at the Abbaye prison. The Abbaye prison was located in what is now the Boulevard Saint-Germain just west of the current Passage de la Petite Boucherie...
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    Signy Abbey (French: Abbaye de Signy, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Signy; Latin: Signiacum) was a Cistercian abbey located in Signy-l'Abbaye, Ardennes, France...
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    interior portraits. Later, he became a student of Léon Cogniet. In 1827, while decorating the new Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, he was taken as a student by...
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    The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...
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    the custom for many girls of the nobility, she was later raised at the Abbaye de Montmartre convent, overlooking Paris, where she spent twelve years. As...
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    Pont de Saint-Nicolas-de-Campagnac Labande, Léon-Honoré (1920). Avignon au xve siècle: Légation de Charles de Bourbon et du cardinal Julien de la Rovère...
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    the Abbaye de Nôtre-Dame des Dombes (Abbey of Notre-Dame des Dombes), the French National Railway Company (SNCF, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer...
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    Relec Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame du Relec), monks, diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon (Plounéour-Ménez, Finistère) Rieunette Abbey or Priory (Abbaye or Prieuré...
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  • Constance married secondly Alan III, Viscount of Rohan, and founded the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon-Repos with him on 23 June 1184. She probably died soon after...
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