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    brought back again to the abbey in 1819. In the 12th century, the Abbot Suger rebuilt portions of the abbey church using innovative structural and decorative...
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    approval of the municipal council. Eugene III Louis VII Hugh II of Burgundy Suger of Saint-Denis Peter the Venerable Hugues de Payns The statue of Bernard...
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    church until his death in 1196, following the new style innovated by Abbot Suger at the nearby Basilica of Saint-Denis. The façade was built between 1200...
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    2 : « L'école de la légende 1891-1922 », preface by Jean Bruller, Paris, Suger, 1987, 528 p. tome 3 : « La tradition à l'épreuve 1922-1953 », 352 p. tome...
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    The inhabitants of Puteaux are called Putéoliens in French. In 1148 Abbot Suger, the chief minister of kings Louis VI and Louis VII, established a landed...
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    indeed from the Byzantine Empire) came to visit its market. In 1140, Abbot Suger, counselor to the King, granted further privileges to the citizens of Saint-Denis...
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  • François Xavier 6. Frédéric Ozanam 7. St Louis and Robert de Sorbon 8. Suger 9. Hugh of Saint Victor 10. Jean Gerson 11. St François de Sales and Jean-Jacques...
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  • Roman Catholic cardinals began to wear red colored habitus. When Abbe Suger rebuilt Saint Denis Basilica outside Paris in the early 12th century, he...
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    flourishing of religious architecture in Paris was largely the work of Suger, the abbot of Saint-Denis from 1122 to 1151 and an advisor to Kings Louis...
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    witnessed some disorders, determined to restore discipline. At the request of Suger and Bernard of Clairvaux, Gildwin, the first Abbot of St-Victor, sent Odo...
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