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    the Third Crusade met at Vézelay before officially departing for the Holy Land. The human settlement on the hill of Vézelay is very anterior to the Benedictine...
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    Vézelay Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay) is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French department...
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  • Paule Vézelay (née Marjorie Watson-Williams; 1892–1984) was a British painter, known for her abstract art. Vézelay was born Marjorie Watson-Williams in...
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    Archivolts of Sainte-Anne Portal The Vézelay Abbey was built in France in the ninth century on a hill in the village of Vézelay by Benedictine Monks and became...
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    Foissy-lès-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fwasi lɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Foissy near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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    On 31 March 1146, the French abbot Bernard of Clairvaux preached at Vézelay to encourage support for the Second Crusade. News from the Holy Land alarmed...
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  • Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1188, 342. Hugh of Poitiers, The Vézelay Chronicle, transl. John Scott, John O. Ward, (Medieval & Renaissance Texts...
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    Burgundy wine (French: Bourgogne or vin de Bourgogne) is made in the Burgundy region of eastern France, in the valleys and slopes west of the Saône, a...
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    Museum of Art in New York City, and a rib in the Vezelay Abbey, the Basilica of Ste. Magdalene, in Vezelay France. The purported skull of Mary Magdalene...
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    Fontenay-près-Vézelay (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tnɛ pʁɛ vez(ə)lɛ], literally Fontenay near Vézelay) is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté...
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    Western churches and monasteries, including those of Cluny, Cîteaux, and Vézelay. Cluny, founded in 910, exerted a strong influence in Europe for centuries...
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    Communauté de communes de l'Aillantais Communauté de communes Avallon - Vézelay - Morvan Communauté de communes Chablis Villages et Terroirs Communauté...
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  • the Duke and Duchess moved to France, spending time in both Paris and Vézelay. The Duke died in 1973 in Edinburgh. Campbell was fluent in both French...
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  • Lefebvre's culinary training began at age 14 at the restaurant L’Esperance in Vézelay under chef Marc Meneau, where he worked for three years. He then worked...
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    venerate. Pilgrims also visit another purported tomb of Lazarus at the Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy. The Abbey of the Trinity at Vendôme was said to hold...
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    southern France and died there. Starting in around 1050, the monks of the Vézelay Abbey of la Madaleine in Burgundy said they discovered Mary Magdalene's...
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    narrative scenes. Outstanding abbey churches with sculpture include in France Vézelay and Moissac and in Spain Silos. Romanesque art was characterised by a very...
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    in the unsuccessful Second Crusade, notably through a famous sermon at Vézelay (1146). Bernard was canonized just 21 years after his death by Pope Alexander...
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    also appeared in Burgundy and in an experimental version at the Abbey of Vézelay at about the same time. These vaults allowed ceilings that were lighter...
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    passed through France, congregating for the journey at Jumièges, Paris, Vézelay, Cluny, Arles and St. Gall in Switzerland. They crossed two passes in the...
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  • inhabitant of Vezelay - was begun in 1989. This collection has often been exhibited and was most recently displayed at the Salle Gothique in Vézelay in August...
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    there were four main starting points in the Cathedral cities of Tours, Vézelay, Le Puy-en-Velay and Arles. They are today all routes of the Grande Randonnée...
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    famous in France: Notre Dame Cathedral, Mont Saint-Michel, Carcassonne, Vézelay Abbey, Pierrefonds, and Roquetaillade castle. Napoleon III also directed...
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  • Jerusalem (1042–1119), born Jehan de Vezelay, a French Catholic religious leader, was the abbot of the monastery at Vézelay, France, as well as one of the founders...
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    Our Lady Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady Basilica of St Mary Magdalene (Vézelay Abbey) Basilica of Our Lady of the Willow Basilica of Our Lady of the Oak...
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    1915 Romain Rolland January 29, 1866 Clamecy, France December 30, 1944 Vézelay, France 1915, 1916 Awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916....
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    Richard I of England and Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, leaving Vézelay with his army on 4 July 1190. At first, the French and English crusaders...
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    of Vézelay in 1840. Following this, Viollet le Duc set out to restore most of the symbolic buildings in France including Notre Dame de Paris, Vézelay, Carcassonne...
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    Retrieved 23 April 2020. Falser, Michael (2013). "From Gaillon to Sanchi, from Vézelay to Angkor Wat. The Musée Indo-Chinois in Paris: A Transcultural Perspective...
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    recruited Bernard of Clairveaux to deliver a message supporting his crusade at Vézelay on 31 March. Queen Eleanor also formally took the cross during Bernard's...
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