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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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    leaving his house only to pay visits to Juliette Récamier in Abbaye-aux-Bois. His final work, Vie de Rancé, was written at the suggestion of his confessor and...
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    Valence Abbey (Abbaye de Valence), monks, diocese of Poitiers (1225 or 1230–1791) (Couhé, Vienne) La Valette Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Valette), monks,...
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  • Fossés-Saint-Jacques, where the Perrault brothers lived, hard against the abbaye de Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris. Jean-Louis claimed to have done some architectural...
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    Aurillac Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Saint Gerald, Aurillac (French: Abbaye Saint-Géraud d'Aurillac), founded around 895 in Auvergne (in the present...
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    François-Marc-Antoine de Bussy, seigneur de Bisé; her godmother was Marie-Louise Bailly-Adenet, first woman of the chamber to her sister Madame Thérèse. The Abbaye de Fontevraud...
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    Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752) (category Burials at Val-de-Grâce (church))
    with him during ill health. He later decided to retire at the Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève de Paris. From then on, he became known as Louis le Génovéfain. As...
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    female but had died in infancy. Mademoiselle du Maine was placed in the Abbaye de Maubuisson, a very prestigious abbey in the Saint-Ouen-l'Aumône area of...
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    1451 : Antoine de Rochefort la Valette "Moine" 1452 : Jean de Vaugrigneuse "Moine" 1453 : Eustache de Vaugrigneuse "Moine" 1453 : Aynard de Villeneufve "Chantre"...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were 1,816 monuments listed,...
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    Saint Gabriel (fr). 12th-century Romanesque chapel southeast of the town. Abbaye Saint-Honorat - Former Benedictine nunnery Hamlets located on the territory...
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    1451 : Antoine de Rochefort la Valette "Moine" 1452 : Jean de Vaugrigneuse "Moine" 1453 : Eustache de Vaugrigneuse "Moine" 1453 : Aynard de Villeneufve "Chantre"...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Autun (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    Antoine-François de Bliterswick 1732–1748: Gaspard de Thomas de La Valette 1748–1758: Antoine de Malvin de Montazet 1758–1767: Nicolas de Bouillé 1767–1788:...
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    Prads-Haute-Bléone (category Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence)
    the Ravin de la Frache (an Occitan term that precisely refers to a zone of talus), in l'Adret and located beneath the summit of Belle Valette. In the autumn...
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  • Barthelemy, it was reported that at the worst moment, he imprisoned in the Abbaye citizen Claude Sujet who perished on the spot. He was the first Secretary...
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    Nontron. Villars' attractions include the Château de Puyguilhem, Grotte de Villars and the Abbaye de Boschaud. Communes of the Dordogne department "Répertoire...
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    Roman Catholic Diocese of Carcassonne-Narbonne (category CS1 Latin-language sources (la))
    François de Servien 1653–1654 Louis de Nogaret de La Valette 1655–1679 Louis d'Anglure de Bourlemont 1680 Louis Joseph de Grignan 1681–1722 Louis Joseph de Chateauneuf...
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    Brun De La Valette, Robert (1969). Lyon et ses rues (in French). Paris: Le Fleuve. p. 47. Chambet, Charles Joseph (1853). Nouveau guide pittoresque de l'étranger...
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