Fleury-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [flœʁi syʁ lwaʁ], literally Fleury on Loire) is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. On 1 January...

Fleury Abbey (Floriacum) in Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, France, founded in about 640, is one of the most celebrated Benedictine monasteries of Western...

Saône-et-Loire Fleury-la-Rivière, Marne Fleury-la-Vallée, Yonne Fleury-les-Aubrais, Loiret Fleury-Mérogis, Essonne Fleury-sur-Andelle, Eure Fleury-sur-Loire,...

Between c. 980 and 985 Aimoin wrote about Saint Benedict in the Abbey of Fleury-sur-Loire. His chief work is the Historia Francorum, or Libri V. de Gestis Francorum...

Benedictine monk and writer. He was born in a village near the Abbey of Fleury, which he later entered as a monk. He acquired considerable reputation by...

Pouilly-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [puji syʁ lwaʁ], literally Pouilly on Loire) is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. Pouilly-sur-Loire...

Winchester, Hampshire, England. He was originally from the French town of Fleury-sur-Loire. Lantfred is famous for having written Vita S. Swithuni ("The Life...

La Charité-sur-Loire, known simply as La Charité until 1961, is a riverside commune in the western part of the French department of Nièvre. It is located...

merger of the former communes Cosne-sur-Loire and Cours. Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire lies on the right bank of the Loire at its confluence with the Nohain, about...

present-day Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. Abbo was born near Orléans and brought up in the Benedictine abbey of Fleury. He was educated at Paris...