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    Woods (French: Abbaye-aux-Bois) was a Bernardine (i.e., Cistercian) convent in Paris, with buildings at 16 rue de Sèvres and at 11 rue de la Chaise in the...
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    A European center of musical research and practice is in its Abbaye aux Dames. Saintes is on the banks of the river Charente, in the center-eastern part...
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  • Abbey of Saint-Gildas-de-Bois (Abbaye de Saint-Gildas-de-Bois), monks, Diocese of Nantes (Saint-Gildas-des-Bois, Loire-Atlantique) Abbey of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard...
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    Bayeux. The village's history is closely linked to the Saint Stephen abbey "Abbaye Saint-Étienne-de-Fontenay" founded on his land of Fontenay by Raoul Tesson...
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    Mondaye Abbey (French: Abbaye de Mondaye or Abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye) is a French Premonstratensian abbey in the Bessin countryside at Juaye-Mondaye...
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    1056. Saint-Lô is famous for its goldsmiths and even Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror, ordered two candelabra for the Abbaye aux Dames [fr]...
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    functional bell tower. Saint-Léger-Vauban is also home to the Abbaye de la Pierre Qui Vire, and the Chateau de Rueres. Saint-Léger's primary economic...
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    from Cesny-Bois-Halbout in the south and passes through the village before continuing north to join Route nationale N158 at Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil....
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    Abbaye-aux-Bois Cordeliers Convent Couvent des Célestins Couvent des Feuillants Madelonnettes Convent Christian monasteries in Paris Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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    derive from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning a knoll or a hill. Abbaye de Saint-André-de-Gouffern is the remains of a 12th century Abbey built in 1127 and...
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    Aisne (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
    Notre-Dame de Laon Soissons Cathedral Churches and abbeys Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey Abbaye du Tortoir de Saint Nicolas aux Bois Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Laon...
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    Noirmoutier Abbey otherwise the Abbey of Saint Philibert, Noirmoutier (French: Abbaye Saint-Philibert de Noirmoutier) was a Benedictine monastery founded...
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    "Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Touraine. Série in-8". Gallica. Retrieved 2024-01-25. "Ancienne abbaye Saint-Sauveur". Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine...
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    Bijloke or Abbaye de la Byloque) at Ghent (East Flanders): Cistercian nuns Bois-Seigneur-Isaac Abbey (Abbaye de Bois-Seigneur-Isaac) at Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac...
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    Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 982. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Vendôme, EHESS (in French)...
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    Mérimée: Eglise Saint-Valentin, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictins Saint-Pierre ; dite Abbaye de Jumièges, Ministère...
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    north-central France. This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey). Founded around 630, it is...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés et son faubourg,Editions Parigramme, Paris (2005), ISBN 2-84096-189-X Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés...
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    Saint-Georges-des-Bois Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Georges de Saint-Georges-des-Bois), Diocese of Le Mans, later Diocese of Blois (Saint-Martin-des-Bois, Loir-et-Cher) Saint-Jean-de-la-Castelle...
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    Abbayes, Châteaux-forts et Villes de la Picardie et de l'Artois, Paul Roger, éd. Duval et Herment, Amiens, 1842, p. 337, ISBN 2-84265-206-1 Victor de...
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    Arganchoises in French. At a place called La Grande Abbaye there is a natural camping ground. The Parish church of Saint-Radegonde dates from the 17th century. It...
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    major medieval sites, the former Abbaye du Ronceray, built during the 11th and 12th century, and the Hôpital Saint-Jean, founded by Henry II of England...
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    were Varennes, vineyards and fields, little occupied except for the Abbaye Saint-Julien established on the banks of the Loire. The two centres were linked...
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    PA00110949". monumentum.fr. "Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin". pop.culture.gouv.fr. "Ancienne abbaye Saint-Martin à Sées – PA00110942". monumentum.fr. "Ancienne...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    on the Route de Rouen Bois Bonvallet [fr] Square de la rose des vents on Rue du Docteur Fafet Plaine Saint Ladre Parc Léon Pille on Rue de l'Agrappin Zoo...
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    Y Z Abbaye-aux-Bois, nuns, diocese of Paris (1202–1792) (Rue de Sèvres and Rue de la Chaise, Paris, 1654–1792; founded 1202 as Notre-Dame-aux-Bois ("Our...
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  • episcopal sees. Catholic Encyclopedia: Belley "Abbaye de Nouaillé-Maupertuis - Nouaillé-Maupertuis- Le Patrimoine de la Vienne". Archived from the original on...
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    Bois (61386)". INSEE. "INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2502014 - Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge - Description". "Ancienne abbaye à Saint...
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    could also be called bleu de Saint-Denis. The Église Saint-Pierre de Chartres was the church of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée, founded in...
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    copied by other Paris churches: the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and quickly spread to England...
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