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    Ages it was usually called Saint-Michel-aux-Deux-Tombes (Saint Michel with two tombs, in reference to Tombelaine). The Mont-Saint-Michel monks, during the...
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    be built on the Pope's encouragement: Église St.-Étienne, formerly the Abbaye aux Hommes (Men's Abbey). It was completed in 1063 and is dedicated to St...
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    functional bell tower. Saint-Léger-Vauban is also home to the Abbaye de la Pierre Qui Vire, and the Chateau de Rueres. Saint-Léger's primary economic...
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    the Centre de perfectionnement aux métiers du patrimoine and the Maison du tourisme Hesbaye et Meuse Andenne Abbey (Abbaye d'Andenne) at Andenne (Namur):...
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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-Thierry Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Thierry) was formerly a Benedictine abbey in the village of Saint-Thierry, Marne, It was closed in the 17th...
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  • of Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives), monks, Diocese of Sées (Saint-Pierre-sur-Dives, Calvados) Abbey of Saint-Pierre-du-Mont or...
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  • (Abbaye de Lesterps, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Lesterps), Lesterps, Charente Lunéville Abbey, otherwise Abbey of Saint-Remi (Abbaye de Lunéville, Abbaye Saint-Remi...
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    (Braine, Aisne) Bucilly Abbey (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Bucilly), Diocese of Laon, later Diocese of Soissons (Bucilly, Aisne) Abbaye Notre-Dame de la Capelle...
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    français de la Culture. (in French) Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictins Saint-Pierre ; dite Abbaye de Jumièges, Ministère français de la Culture. (in...
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    Abbey (Abbaye de Gondon, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Gondon), monks, diocese of Agen (Gondon-les-Montastruc, Monbahus, Lot-et-Garonne) Gourdon Abbey (Abbaye de...
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    of St Andrews from the east Church in abbaye Notre-Dame du Bec Bec Abbey Bec Abbey West side of the Tour Saint-Nicolas, between the ancient pottery to...
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    Abbey and the two great monasteries at Caen, the Abbaye aux Dames and the Abbaye aux Hommes (Saint-Étienne). William FitzOsbern, (c. 1020-1071), Lord...
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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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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    Trois-Cailloux. Fountain of Rue Saint-Jacques. Convent of the grey sisters (18th century, historic monuments, 1992). Abbaye Saint-Jean-des-Prémontrés [fr] (18th...
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    could also be called bleu de Saint-Denis. The Église Saint-Pierre de Chartres was the church of the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Père-en-Vallée, founded in...
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    de la Butte Saint-Pierre à Sées – PA00132905". monumentum.fr. "Ancien hôtel du Comte Curial à Sées – PA00110948". monumentum.fr. "Halle aux grains à Sées...
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    the governor-general of the colony of French Indochina, Pierre Pasquier. The Saint Léonard Abbaye which was built in the 18th century is one of the city's...
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    and teaching possibly dating back in the Middle Ages from the famed Abbaye Saint-Martial de Limoges founded in 848 and suppressed by the French Revolution...
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    feet thick), and adding "le Tour Carrée" (the Square Tower), "le Chambre Aux Chevaliers" (the Knights Chamber), and much more, transforming it into one...
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    used on the sexpartite vaults at both the Saint-Étienne, (Abbaye-aux-Hommes) and Sainte-Trinité, (Abbaye-aux-Dames) at Caen, France, in the late 11th and...
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    Arganchoises in French. At a place called La Grande Abbaye there is a natural camping ground. The Parish church of Saint-Radegonde dates from the 17th century. It...
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    of Bayeux. The village's history is closely linked to the Saint Stephen abbey "Abbaye Saint-Étienne-de-Fontenay" founded on his land of Fontenay by Raoul...
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    major medieval sites, the former Abbaye du Ronceray, built during the 11th and 12th century, and the Hôpital Saint-Jean, founded by Henry II of England...
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    19 January 1854 in Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron, France, the son of Norman farmers. Le Roy received a secondary education at the Abbaye Blanche in Mortain...
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    church. Plan of Saint-Front de Périgueux, a cruciform with five cupolas, modeled after St Mark's Basilica in Venice Apse of Abbaye Saint-Marie in Souillac...
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    représentations : Revue d'Auvergne, Volume 111, Typ. et lithog. G. Mont-Louis, 1997 Thérèse Goyet, L'accès aux Pensées de Pascal : colloque scientifique et pédagogique...
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    Crouy-Saint-Pierre (French pronunciation: [kʁui sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]) is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. The commune is situated...
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    buildings and sites that are registered as historical monuments: The Petite-Abbaye Industrial Cheese Factory (20th century) Farmhouses (19th century) A Chateau...
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  • Communauté de communes des Hauts Champs, Communauté de communes du Pays des Abbayes, Communauté de communes du Val de Neuné and Communauté de communes de la...
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