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...

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...

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...

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...

and abbot of many monasteries, most notably the Benedictine abbey of Fleury-sur-Loire. He then went on to establish public schools outside the monastic areas...

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ bənwa syʁ lwaʁ], literally Saint-Benoît on Loire) is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central...