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    The Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, in Auvergne (La Chasa-Dieu in Occitan), is a former Benedictine abbey, headquarters of the Casadean order, located in the...
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    La Chaise-Dieu (French pronunciation: [la ʃɛz djø]; Auvergnat: La Chasa Dieu) is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France. Its inhabitants...
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    essentially devoted to sacred music and takes place mainly in the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. In 2016, the Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary. Georges...
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    the King of his charges and exiled to the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. In addition, the people assumed that the Parlement of Paris's acquittal of Rohan implied...
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    buried in the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu. On his headstone, is the word Merito, an anagram of his name. La Fayette was the son of William Motier La Fayette, Seigneur...
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    Pope Clement VI (category Fécamp Abbey)
    was granted the priory of St. Baudil, a dependency of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, on 24 April 1324, at the personal order of Pope John XXII; and then...
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    founder of the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu, and left the military life for the Benedictine order. He later became abbot of La Chaise-Dieu. Queen Constance of Burgundy...
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    the Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu before becoming a collegiate church. The parish church of Notre-Dame in Langeac was destroyed in 1430. The Church of Saint-Gal...
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    Jean Soanen (category Bishops of Senez)
    of La Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne, where he remained imprisoned till his death in 1740, at the age of 95. He died in 1740 at La Chaise-Dieu, where he was...
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    of the Benedictine Abbey of La Chaise-Dieu in Haute Loire. He married before 3 April 1052 to Pétronille, probably the daughter of Artaud de Royans and...
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