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    Mont-Saint-Michel (French pronunciation: [lə mɔ̃ sɛ̃ miʃɛl]; Norman: Mont Saint Miché; English: Saint Michael's Mount) is a tidal island and mainland...
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    The Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey is an abbey located within the city and island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, in the department of Manche. The abbey is...
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    The Cartulary of Mont-Saint-Michel is a collection of illuminated manuscript charters from Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in Normandy. It was begun in the mid-12th...
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    in the world and, along with the Mont Saint Michel Abbey, is one of the major tourist attractions in Mont-Saint-Michel, the island itself being the second...
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  • Mont Saint Michel is an island off the coast of Normandy, France. Mont Saint Michel may refer to: Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, the abbey on the island Mont-Saint-Michel...
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    List of Mont-Saint-Michel abbey abbots, of the Benedict order, starting in 966 after the removal by Duke Richard I of Normandy of the previous order,...
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  • Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a book written by the American historian and scholar Henry Adams (1838–1918). Adams wrote it well after his historical...
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  • electoral district Mont-Saint-Michel, Quebec, a municipality in the Laurentides region Saint-Michel, Aisne, in the Aisne département Saint-Michel, Ariège, in...
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    Sanctuary of St. Michael the Archangel, Mount Sant'Angelo, Italy Mont Saint-Michel Abbey, Mount Saint Michael, France San Miguel de Los Reyes Monastery, Valencia...
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    idea of Saint Michael looking out over the Atlantic from Mont Saint-Michel. It was suspended from the elaborate Collar of the Order of Saint Michael made...
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  • July 990, Conan gave the lands of Villamée, Lillele and Passille to Mont Saint-Michel, all of which later became part of the seigneury of Fougères. Conan...
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    Normandy then sent Maynard to establish the Benedictine Rule at Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. A new church was built by Abbot Gérard, but was hardly finished...
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    Belgium: Saint-Gilles (2001- closed Juin 2017) Canada: Montréal (2004) France: Paris (1975), Vézelay (1993), Strasbourg (1995), Mont-Saint-Michel (2001)...
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    the Mont (Latin: Robertus de Monte; French: Robert de Monte; also Robertus de Monte Sancti Michaelis, in reference to the abbey of Mont Saint-Michel), was...
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    Saint Aubert, also known as Saint Autbert, was bishop of Avranches in the 8th century and is credited with founding Mont Saint-Michel. Aubert lived in...
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    Notre Dame de Paris, Vézelay, Carcassonne, Roquetaillade castle, Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey on its peaked coastal island, Pierrefonds, and the Palais des Papes...
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    together with the sacra di San Michele in Val di Susa, and the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey in Normandy. The alignment of these three geographical sites on...
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    The work-wear brand Le Mont St Michel was launched in 1913, just a few miles away from the famous abbey after which it was named. In 1920, Caroline Lesaffre...
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    the window frame gave the style the name "Flamboyant". Choir of Mont Saint Michel Abbey (about 1448) The Flamboyant Gothic style appeared beginning about...
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    Berkshire, England, is begun. 1446–1450 – Reconstruction of choir of Mont Saint Michel Abbey in Normandy is begun. c. 1447 – Llotja dels Mercaders (Silk Exchange)...
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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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    most visited paid tourist site in the English Channel, after the Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. At the end of 2012, it welcomed its 2,500,000th visitor and its...
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    Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church in Paris, France, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the 5th arrondissement, near the Panthéon. It contains the shrine...
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    from below Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey was rebuilt from Romanesque to Gothic in the 12th century. The Gothic cloister of Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey (12th century)...
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  • Avranches (Mont-Saint-Michel, Manche) Mont-Saint-Quentin Abbey (Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Quentin), monks, Diocese of Noyon (Péronne, Somme) Montceau Abbey (Abbaye...
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    Toulouse. In the years 1766 to 1769, he was commendatory Abbot of Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, and from 1788 commendatory Abbot of Corbie. In 1772, he chaired...
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    Guillaume fitz-Guimond of Avranches, who makes a donation to the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Bertram I de Verdun appears in the Domesday Book (1086), holding...
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    Mont Saint-Michel (German: Michaelsberg) is a hill, 437 metres high, in the Vosges mountains in the French region of Alsace. It rises above the town and...
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    Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former medieval abbey...
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    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. Main building...
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