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    Woods (French: Abbaye-aux-Bois) was a Bernardine (i.e., Cistercian) convent in Paris, with buildings at 16 rue de Sèvres and at 11 rue de la Chaise in the...
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    A European center of musical research and practice is in its Abbaye aux Dames. Saintes is on the banks of the river Charente, in the center-eastern part...
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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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  • where the Perrault brothers lived, hard against the abbaye de Sainte-Geneviève, in Paris. Jean-Louis claimed to have done some architectural work, but...
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    Pont-à-Mousson. pp. 32–33. "Abbaye Sainte-Marie-aux-Bois (ancienne)". Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. Dom Calmet, Histoire de Lorraine, vol. VII, Nancy...
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    Mondaye Abbey (French: Abbaye de Mondaye or Abbaye Saint-Martin de Mondaye) is a French Premonstratensian abbey in the Bessin countryside at Juaye-Mondaye...
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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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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    north of the town were the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe [fr] neighborhood and Leffe faubourg. To the south, the Rivages and Saint-Nicolas neighborhoods extended...
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    north-central France. This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey). Founded around 630, it is...
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    Abbaye-aux-Bois. His final work, Vie de Rancé, was written at the suggestion of his confessor and published in 1844. It is a biography of Armand Jean...
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