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    Villers Abbey (French: Abbaye de Villers) is a former Cistercian abbey located in the town of Villers-la-Ville, Walloon Brabant, Belgium. Founded in 1146...
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    Maredsous Abbey (French: Abbaye de Maredsous) is a Benedictine monastery at Maredsous, in the municipality of Anhée, Wallonia, Belgium. It is a founding...
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    La Vignette Abbey (Abbaye de la Vignette) at Leuven: Cistercian nuns Villers-la-Ville Abbey (Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville) at Villers-la-Ville (Walloon Brabant):...
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    Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay". Gueit, Christian. "L'ABBAYE de VIGNOGOUL". Villeneuve Abbey website (now a hotel and restaurant) "Abbaye de Villers-Bettnach (archived)"...
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  • Waleran de Baudemont. "SOCIETE HISTORIQUE REGIONALE DE VILLERS-COTTERETS: Comte de Vermandois Raoul IV de Crépy Péronelle d'Aquitaine soeur de la Reine...
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    Orval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval) is a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132 in the Gaume region of Belgium, located in Villers-devant-Orval, part...
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    in 1231 as a daughter house of Villers-la-Ville Abbey, of the filiation of Clairvaux, on a site where a grange of Villers-la-Ville had stood since the early...
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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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    Saint-Ghislain Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut...
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    4459–70 (3161), ff. 48–57: “Vita sanctimonialis Aleidis de Scarenbeke.” (Cistercian: Villers-la-Ville; Augustinian: Louvain; Val Saint Martin; 14th century;...
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    protested the king's actions, and was subsequently exiled to his Château de Villers-Cotterêts. The May Edicts issued on 8 May 1788 were also opposed by the...
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    remained under the spiritual guidance of Villers. The abbey was named Camera Beatae Mariae, or Abbaye de la Chambre de Notre-Dame ("Abbey of the Chamber of...
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    Armand Jean le Bouthillier de Rancé, originally the commendatory abbot of La Trappe, led the reform. As commendatory abbot, de Rancé was a secular individual...
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    Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictins Saint-Pierre ; dite Abbaye de Jumièges, Ministère français de la Culture. (in...
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    Frances Ivens (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (France))
    bombardment at Villers Cotterets in May 1918. On the approach of the enemy she withdrew her unit at the last moment to the Abbaye de Royaumont where...
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    Maubuisson Abbey (French: Abbaye de Maubuisson or Notre-Dame-la-Royale) is a Cistercian nunnery at Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône, in the Val-d'Oise department of...
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    Soleilmont Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Soleilmont) is an abbey of Trappistine nuns (O.C.S.O., or Order of Cistercians of the Strict Obervance)...
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    -Étienne, formerly the Abbaye aux Hommes (Men's Abbey). It was completed in 1063 and is dedicated to St Stephen. The current Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) of...
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    Kurt Meyer (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    the Abbaye Ardenne, but not responsible for the killings of twenty-three at Buron and Authie. Meyer was found responsible for the deaths at the Abbaye Ardenne...
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  • minimal pairs like pays [pɛ.i] ('country') / paye [pɛj] ('paycheck') and abbaye [a.bɛ.i] ('abbey') / abeille [a.bɛj] ('bee'). Schane (1968) proposes an...
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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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    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 around...
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    exploit the opening, seize Villers-Bocage and advance into the western flank of the Panzer Lehr Division. After the Battle of Villers-Bocage, the position was...
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    South West France: Clos La Coutale, Clos de Gamot, Clos Lapeyre, Clos Triguedina (Cahors) Vaud: Clos des Abbayes, Clos des Moines (Dézaley), Clos du Paradis...
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  • The 2023–24 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the qualifying competition to decide which teams from the leagues of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...
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    IA00051643 Petite-Abbaye Industrial Cheese Factory (in French) Ministry of Culture, Mérimée IA00000144 Farmhouse/Mill at Moulin de Roinet IA00000143 Farmhouse...
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  • The 2022–23 Coupe de France preliminary rounds, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is the qualifying competition to decide which teams from the leagues of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes...
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    centres were Varennes, vineyards and fields, little occupied except for the Abbaye Saint-Julien established on the banks of the Loire. The two centres were...
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    historic monuments, 1992). Abbaye Saint-Jean-des-Prémontrés [fr] (18th century, historic monuments, 1992). Hôtel Blin de Bourdon (18th century: 1 Rue...
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  • Ysaÿe /izai/ (violinist/composer), Moÿ-de-l'Aisne /mɔidəlɛn/ (commune in Aisne and a family name), and Le Blanc de Nicolaÿ /nikɔlai/ (an insurance company...
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