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    French) Ancienne abbaye des Dames Abbaye aux Dames - official website Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes. 45°44′41″N 0°37′27″W...
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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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    The Abbey of Saint-Étienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes ("Men's Abbey") by contrast with the Abbaye aux Dames ("Ladies' Abbey"), is a former Benedictine...
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    The Abbey of Sainte-Trinité (French: Abbaye de la Sainte-Trinité), better known as the Abbaye aux Dames, is a former Benedictine nunnery in Caen, Normandy...
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    transverse ribs. The principal examples are those in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes and Abbaye-aux-Dames at Caen (which were probably the earliest examples of a...
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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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    Base Mérimée: Notice #PA00110460, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel - Centre des monuments nationaux Archived 2013-05-11...
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  • (Charente-Maritime): Abbaye aux Dames, Saintes Abbey of St. Eutropius, Saintes (Abbaye Saint-Eutrope de Saintes) Salve Abbey, see Sauve Abbey Saramon Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame...
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    Vaux-de-Cernay Abbey (French: Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay) is a former Cistercian monastery in northern France (Île-de-France), situated in Cernay-la-Ville...
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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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    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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    qualité"). Imprisoned in the Abbaye, sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Tribunal and guillotined. His wife, Amélie de Boufflers, was herself executed...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    north of the town were the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe [fr] neighborhood and Leffe faubourg. To the south, the Rivages and Saint-Nicolas neighborhoods extended...
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  • of Saint-Acheul, Amiens Arrouaise Abbey Abbey aux Dames, Caen Cassan Abbey, Roujan Chancelade Abbey, Chancelade, Dordogne Fontenelles Abbey, Saint-André-d'Ornay...
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    also Gimont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Planselve, de Gimont) (Gimont, Gers) Le Pont-aux-Dames Abbey (Abbaye du Pont-aux-Dames), nuns, diocese of Meaux...
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    The Abbey of Saint-Pierre-les-Nonnains in Lyon, also known as the Abbey of the Dames de Saint-Pierre or simply Palais Saint-Pierre, is an ancient Catholic...
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    Rib vault (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    domes of the Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen with a kind of crossed rib vault, a star vault, in its central lantern. The Abbaye-aux-Dames also in Caen, was roofed...
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    Scheen was among the soloists invited to perform at the Abbaye aux Dames during the Festival de Saintes. Cyril Auvity, Orphée, Céline Scheen, Eurydice, Floriane...
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    Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Malonne) (dissolved) at Malonne (Namur): Benedictine monks Marche-les-Dames Abbey (Abbaye de Marche-les-Dames or Abbaye de Notre-Dame...
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  • Navarra consecrated. Near Caves (Pechersk Lavra) founded. 1059 – Abbaye aux Dames, Caen founded. c. 1060 Construction of the Baphuon in Yasodharapura...
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    Seine-Maritime) Belval Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Belval), Diocese of Reims (Belval-Bois-des-Dames, Ardennes) Benoîte-Vaux Abbey (Abbaye de Benoîte-Vaux), Diocese...
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    The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...
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    Caen stone (redirect from Pierre de Caen)
    located there. The Norman Romanesque Church of La Trinité, at the Abbaye-aux-Dames (on the west side of the city), was founded by William's wife, Matilda...
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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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    The Abbey of Notre Dame aux Nonnains (French: Abbaye de Notre-Dame-aux-Nonnains: Abbey of Our Lady of the Nuns), also called the Royal Abbey of Our Lady...
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    Aisne (category Departments of Hauts-de-France)
    and abbeys Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache Abbey Abbaye du Tortoir de Saint Nicolas aux Bois Abbaye Saint-Vincent de Laon Abbaye Saint-Martin de Laon Longpont...
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  • Matilda of Flanders (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Matilda agreed to found two churches as penance: the Abbaye aux Hommes and the Abbaye aux Dames. Their marriage was by all accounts very happy and fruitful...
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    the Abbaye de Nôtre-Dame des Dombes (Abbey of Notre-Dame des Dombes), the French National Railway Company (SNCF, Société Nationale des Chemins de fer...
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  • of the Festival de Saintes at the Abbaye aux Dames in Charente-Maritime, and the Festival de Sarrebourg (July) at the Couvent de Saint Ulrich. The name...
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    Mans, Gervais de Château-du-Loir, but was able to maintain his authority over the County of Maine. Martel founded the Abbey aux Dames in Saintonge and...
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