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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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    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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    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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    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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    April 1767 in Vézelay – 22 February 1849 in Paris) was a French Army General and Governor of Guadalope. Desfourneaux was born in Vézelay and joined the...
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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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    the Camino on bicycle or on horseback. Paths from the cities of Tours, Vézelay, and Le Puy-en-Velay meet at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port. A fourth French route...
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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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    was born on 24 June 1519 in Vézelay, in the province of Burgundy, France. His father, Pierre de Bèze, bailiff of Vézelay, descended from a Burgundian...
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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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  • 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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    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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    despite their political disagreements. In 1937, he came back to live in Vézelay, which, in 1940, was occupied by the Germans. During the occupation, he...
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    most pilgrims came from France: typically from Arles, Le Puy, Paris, and Vézelay; some from Saint Gilles. Cluny, site of the celebrated medieval abbey,...
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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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    Abbey, Normandy (about 1098) (photo from before World War II) Nave of Vézelay Abbey, (1104–1132) with Romanesque groin vaults in the nave (foreground)...
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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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    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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    Île-de-France, Normandy, Champagne, and Burgundy regions, and from the choir of Vézelay Abbey (fig. 6). Figure 7 shows a circular abacus used at windows in the...
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    Museum, Berlin Romanesque rosettes on a pair of capitals from the Vézelay Abbey, Vézelay, France, unknown architect, 1120-1150 Tudor rose added under Henry...
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    the Abbey of Cluny. After concluding his training at Cluny he set off to Vézelay, where he created the tympanum above the portico. His sculpture is expressive...
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    "Arles, monuments romains et romans". UNESCO. "Basilique et colline de Vézelay". UNESCO. "Beffries of Belgium and France". UNESCO. "Bordeaux, Port de...
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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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    the eloquence of Bernard of Clairvaux, preached to an enormous crowd at Vézelay. The Second Crusade turned out to be "an ignominious fiasco" and, after...
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