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    Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter...
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    church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Its official borders are the River Seine on the north, the rue des Saints-Pères on the west, between...
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    commune Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a suburb of Paris, is named after him, as well as the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Saint-Germain de Charonne...
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    Boulevard Saint-Michel. The boulevard is most famous for crossing the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter from which it derives its name. The Boulevard Saint-Germain...
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    Jean Mabillon (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    he was transferred again to Saint-Denis Abbey near Paris, and the following year to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. This was a move which...
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    Childebert I (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    St-Germain-des-Prés. He died on 13 December 558, and was buried in the abbey he had founded, where his tomb has been discovered. St-Germain-des-Prés became the...
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  • Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a quarter of Paris, France. Saint-Germain-des-Prés may also refer to: Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey), early medieval church...
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    Louis César, Count of Vexin (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    his mistress Madame de Montespan. He was the Abbot of Saint-Denis and of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Louis César, born at the château du Génitoy, was the...
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  • Fredegund (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    marble and copper, situated in the Saint Denis Basilica, having come from the abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Fredegund did not live to see it...
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    René Descartes (redirect from Des cartes)
    transfer his remains to the Panthéon, he was reburied in the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1819, missing a finger and the skull. His alleged skull...
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    Chilperic I (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    unknown assailant. He was buried in the Saint Vincent Basilica of Paris, later incorporated in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Chilperic I's first marriage was...
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    Adelaide of Maurienne France portal Martyrium of Saint Denis, Montmartre Église de Saint-Germain-des-Prés= List of historic churches in Paris Dumoulin, Aline;...
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    Chlothar II (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    buried, like his father, in the Saint Vincent Basilica of Paris, later incorporated into the church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. His rule lasted longer than...
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    Childeric II (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    monastery. Childeric, his wife, and their son Dagobert were buried in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, near Paris, where their tombs were discovered in 1645 and the contents...
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    Bernard de Montfaucon (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    Syriac, and Coptic. In 1687 Montfaucon was called to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and he started to work on an edition of the works of the Greek...
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    Chilperic II (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    Confirmation of privileges of the Abbey of Saint-Denis issued by Chilperic II...
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    Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    of success, Wilhelm Egon retired to France. He retired to his abbey of St-Germain-des-Prés near Paris, where he died on 10 April 1704. While in Brandenburg...
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    Pierre de Montreuil (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    the former abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés can be definitely said to be by him. He is thought to have been a master at the Basilique Saint-Denis beginning...
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    William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    died in Paris, France, on 3 March 1611. He is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A household account for the Earl survives. It commences on...
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    Ultragotha (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    Childebert a Saint-Germain-des-Prés" in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires, 1887. Jean Dufour, Les évêques d’Albi, de Cahors et de Rodez, des origines...
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  • Bilichild (wife of Childeric II) (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    Neustrians—Bodilo, Amalbert and Ingobert. The royal trio was buried in Saint-Germain-des-Prés at Paris, where her tomb and that of Dagobert were discovered in...
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    defence and turned it into a prison. The abbey was used regularly as a prison during the Ancien Régime. Mont-Saint-Michel and its surrounding bay were inscribed...
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  • Aimoin (died 9 June 889) was a monk of Saint-Germain-des-Prés from before 845. From 872 he was the abbey's chancellor (archivist) and chief copyist, overseeing...
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    Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    "Despréaux" was derived from a small property at Crosne near Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. His mother died when he was two years old; and Nicolas Boileau...
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    Lord James Douglas (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    made. Douglas' body was returned to Paris and buried at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, beside other members of his family, including William Douglas...
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    The Place Jean-Paul-Sartre-et-Simone-de-Beauvoir is a square in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was named after Jean-Paul...
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    arrondissement, which includes the historic districts of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (surrounding the abbey founded in the 6th century) and Luxembourg (surrounding...
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    George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    pension of 166 livres. He died at St Germain-en-Laye in March 1692 and was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, amongst other members of his family...
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    Bertrude (category Burials at Saint-Germain-des-Prés (abbey))
    through his mother, making her the sister of Saint Gerberge and, therefore, a daughter of Richomer and Saint Gertrude of Hamage. Because Chlothar had three...
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    de Venasque circa 500 Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés circa 540 Radegonde de Poitiers Tomb of St. Radegunda 587 Jouarre Abbey 630, Merovingian crypt...
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