An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings...

François Rabelais (UK: /ˈræbəleɪ/ RAB-ə-lay, US: /ˌræbəˈleɪ/ -⁠LAY; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁablɛ]; born between 1483 and 1494; died 1553) was a French writer...

The Abbaye Blanche ("White Abbey") was a nunnery founded in 1112 in Mortain, France. Shortly after establishing an abbey for men called Holy Trinity of...

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...

48°52′N 2°15′E / 48.86°N 2.25°E / 48.86; 2.25 The Bois de Boulogne (French pronunciation: [bwɑ d(ə) bulɔɲ], "Boulogne woodland") is a large public park...

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Fontfroide Abbey (French: Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide; Latin: Fons frigidus) is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west...

Noirlac Abbey (French: Abbaye de Noirlac) is a Cistercian monastery located in the commune of Bruère-Allichamps, near Saint-Amand-Montrond, in the Cher...

L'Abbaye de Créteil or Abbaye group (French: Le Groupe de l'Abbaye) was a utopian artistic and literary community founded during the month of October,...

Saint-Honorat Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame et Saint-Honorat de Tarascon) was a convent of Benedictine nuns in Tarascon, then within the Diocese of Avignon...

The Abbaye Peninsula is a 12.3-mile-long (19.8 km) peninsula located within Baraga County on the northern shore of the Upper Peninsula within the U.S....

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...

The Abbey of the Paraclete (French: Abbaye du Paraclet) was a Benedictine monastery founded by Peter Abelard in Ferreux-Quincey, France, after he left...

Abbaye de Belloc (Basque: Belokeko Abadia) is a French Pyrenees semi-hard cheese from the Pays Basque region, made from unpasteurized sheep milk. Production...

The Val-de-Grâce (French pronunciation: [val də ɡʁas]; Hôpital d'instruction des armées du Val-de-Grâce or HIA Val-de-Grâce) was a military hospital located...

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...

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...

61028; 6.13639 Neimënster Abbey (Luxembourgish: Abtei Neimënster, French: Abbaye de Neimënster, German: Abtei Neumünster), officially known as Neumünster...

Cluny Abbey (French: [klyni]; French: Abbaye de Cluny, formerly also Cluni or Clugny; Latin: Abbatia Cluniacensis) is a former Benedictine monastery in...

Chimay Brewery (Brasserie de Chimay) is a brewery at Scourmont Abbey, a Trappist monastery in Chimay, Hainaut, Belgium, one of the thirteen breweries worldwide...

days after the death of Louis XV in 1774, Louis XVI exiled du Barry to the Abbaye du Pont-aux-Dames in Meaux, pleasing both Marie Antoinette and his aunts...

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...

The Abbaye aux Dames ("Ladies' Abbey") was the first Benedictine nunnery in Saintes in Charente-Maritime in France. The abbey was founded in 1047 by Geoffrey...

Abbey, otherwise the Abbey of Notre-Dame, Fontgombault (French: Abbaye de Fontgombault; Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Fontgombault), is a Benedictine monastery of...

Hautvillers Abbey, or more formally the Abbey of St Peter, Hautvillers (French: Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers), is a former Benedictine monastery in the Hautvillers...

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...

in Allinge, Denmark Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Acey [fr] in Vitreux, France Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Aiguebelle in Montjoyer, France Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bellefontaine [fr]...

Abbaye de Timadeuc Cheese is a cheese produced in a monastery by Trappist monks. This cow's milk cheese is an uncooked pressed cheese. Soft and salty it...

Bec Abbey, formally the Abbey of Our Lady of Bec (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec), is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the...

Sie-en-Brignon (Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Sie-en-Brignon; otherwise Abbaye de la Sie or la Sye, Abbaye de Lassé, Abbaye de or du Brignon; Abbaye de l'Absie-en-Brignon)...