In September 2012 a Cerisy symposium about her works will take place, with contributions by Xavier North, Étienne Balibar, Fernando Santoro, Michel Deguy, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Philippe-Joseph Salazar, Alain Badiou.
The Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, located in the French commune of Cerisy-la-Salle (in the Manche département, region of Basse-Normandie), hosts the Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle (CCIC), a prestigious venue for intellectual and scholarly encounters founded in 1952 by Anne Heurgon-Desjardins.
La Lucerne was the mother-house of four other Premonstratensian monasteries: Ardenne Abbey, Mondaye Abbey and Belle-Étoile Abbey (at Cerisy-Belle-Étoile) in Normandy, and Beauport Abbey in Brittany.
In 1042 Duke William gave "Saint Mary of the Burnt Monastery" to the abbey of Cerisy.
On 7 June 1944, he joined a raid of 112 Lancaster bombers in support of the D-Day landings the previous day, attacking a concentration of German tanks in woods near Cerisy-la-Forêt, between Bayeux and St Lô in Normandy.
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Alexandre Louis Lefebvre de Cérisy (14 November 1798 Paris - 1867 le Bouchevilliers, near Gisors was a French entomologist