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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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    honour of Genevieve, which was dedicated to Phillippe Cousin, who was the abbot of Saint Genevieve Abbey. It was the first work to portray Genevieve as a...
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    the original abbey church. The abbey was said to have been founded at the beginning of the 6th century at the suggestion of Saint Genevieve, who selected...
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    Place du Panthéon (category Buildings and structures in the 5th arrondissement of Paris)
    towards Boulevard Saint-Michel. The Lycée Henri-IV, former Abbey of Saint Genevieve, is located east of the square, just south of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont...
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    Panthéon Club (category Groups of the French Revolution)
    bourgeoisie. The club met on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, in the former royal Abbey of St Genevieve, near the Panthéon, now Lycée Henri-IV. Among the...
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    Saints Peter and Paul, was rededicated to Saint Genevieve, who became the patron saint of Paris. It was at the centre of the Abbey of Saint Genevieve...
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    twenty-six years later, Abelard returned, in the year 1136. Abbey of St Genevieve Lycée Henri IV Lycée Saint-Louis Lycée Louis-le-Grand Les trois lycées de la montagne...
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    Panthéon. It contains the shrine of St. Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris. The church also contains the tombs of Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine. Jean-Paul...
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    Clovis I (redirect from Clovis I of France)
    the Library of the Abbey of Saint Genevieve (which was founded by Clovis). However, two obituaries in the abbeys of Saint Genevieve and Saint Denis date...
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    large former medieval abbey church and present cathedral in the commune of Saint-Denis, a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of singular importance...
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  • a local saint from Loqueffret, Brittany Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, a library in the 5th arrondissement of Paris Abbey of St Genevieve, a French...
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    crossed the Bievre River. The existence of this church, whose parish was later attached to the Abbey of Saint Genevieve, is documented in a papal bull in 1163...
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    it was later expanded into an abbey and basilica, around which grew up the French city of Saint-Denis, now a suburb of Paris. The medieval and modern...
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    the priory at Borest dependent on the Abbey of Saint Genevieve, which owned 280 acres (110 ha); and the bishop of Senlis, who owned 500 acres (200 ha)...
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    The Abbey of Saint Victor, Paris, also known as Royal Abbey and School of Saint Victor, was an abbey near Paris, France. Its origins are connected to the...
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    the Abbey of Saint Genevieve. The church continued to have a close relationship with the royal family; the urns containing the hearts of Louis XIII and...
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    Bibliothèque Mazarine (category University of Paris)
    of books were burned, lost or sold. Fortunately Naudé succeeded in hiding the most valuable volumes in his apartment in the Abbey of Saint-Genevieve....
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    The Abbey of St. Vincent, otherwise the Royal Abbey of St. Vincent (French: Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Senlis), was a former monastery of canons regular in...
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    benefits of its natural defence and turned it into a prison. The abbey was used regularly as a prison during the Ancien Régime. Mont-Saint-Michel and...
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    former Abbey of Saint Genevieve (école centrale du Panthéon, later Lycée Henri-IV), the Professed House of the Jesuits (école centrale de la rue Saint-Antoine...
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    in Chapel of Sainte-Geneviève (13th c.) Detail of Misercordia window (13th century), Chapel of Saint-Genevieve (13th c.) Window of Virgin Mary (1245–50)...
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    monasteries of Paris: the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Abbey of Saint Geneviève. The Right Bank (north of the Seine) became the centre of commerce...
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    which desolated Paris in the reign of Louis le Gros". A Sainte-Geneviève chapel, under the authority of the abbey of the same name, was attested in the...
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    François de La Rochefoucauld (cardinal) (category Bishops of Clermont)
    cardinal until the end of his life at 86 years of age, on 14 February 1645, at his old abbey at Sainte-Geneviève. Father Vitelleschi took the cardinal's Jesuit...
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  • This is a list of monasteries founded during the Merovingian period, between the years c. 500 and c. 750. The abbeys aren't 'Merovingian' as such, although...
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  • Regular at the Abbey of Saint Genevieve in Paris, adding the name "Augustine". He took his vows the following year and then went to Saint-Jacques de Provins...
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  • Congregation of France (French: Labaye de Sainte Genevieve et la Congregation de France lit: The Abbey of Sainte Genevieve and the Congregation of France)...
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  • unknown. He was styled as grand provost of Esztergom in 1183. Thereafter, Adrian studied at the Abbey of St Genevieve in Paris, alongside other Hungarian...
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  • community of canonesses was re-installed here, as a memorial to the many dead. Abbey of St. Genevieve, Paris Abbey of St. Victor, Paris Sablonceaux Abbey, Sablonceaux...
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    the foundation of a monastery. They followed the Rule of Saint Augustine and their statutes were inspired by those of the Abbey of Saint-Victor, Paris...
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