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unusual facts about Fontevraud-l'Abbaye


Tintagel Parish Church

The patronage belonged in the 13th and 14th centuries to the French abbey at Fontevrault (now known as Fontevraud-l'Abbaye) in Anjou.


Abbaye Blanche

The Abbaye Blanche ("White Abbey"), was a nunnery founded in 1112 in Mortain, France.

Abbaye-aux-Bois

The summit of an acacia tree reached to eye-level and the hills of Sèvres could be seen on the horizon.

Abbaye-aux-Bois (French: "Abbey of the Woods") was a Bernardine convent in Paris, with buildings at 16 rue de Sèvres and at 11 rue de la Chaise in the 7th arrondissement.

An Evening at L'Abbaye

An Evening at L'Abbaye is an album of duets by Gordon Heath (September 20, 1918 - August 27, 1991)

Augustin de La Balme

Augustin Mottin was born 28 August 1733, in the French Alps near Saint-Antoine, the son of a tanner.

Battle of Le Transloy

The battle, which opened on 1 October, began well with the capture of Eaucourt L'Abbaye by the 47th (1/2nd London) Division as well as an advance along the Albert-Bapaume road towards Le Sars.

Canal Saint-Denis

The Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, in the basements of the old Abbaye royale de Saint-Denis

Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception

In 1890 the canons were given the ancient Abbey of St. Antony in Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye, in the Department of Isère, leaving their original home.

Chancelade Abbey

Chancelade Abbey (fr: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Chancelade) was an Augustinian monastery in Chancelade in the Dordogne, founded in 1129.

Cîteaux Abbey

Cîteaux Abbey (French: Abbaye de Cîteaux) is a Roman Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France.

De Plancy

de Plancy is a French toponym, relating to Plancy-l'Abbaye

Escaladieu Abbey

Escaladieu Abbey (French: l'Abbaye de l'Escaladieu) was a Cistercian abbey located in the French commune of Bonnemazon in the Hautes-Pyrénées.

Fontgombault Abbey

The Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fontgombault (Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Fontgombault) is a Benedictine monastery of the Solesmes Congregation located in Fontgombault in the département of Indre, in the province of Berry, France.

Françoise Atlan

Welcomed with equal enthusiasm in Morocco (Fes, Rabat, Casablanca in 1994), in Switzerland (Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains in 1993) and in France (Abbaye du Thoronet in 1993 for the Chants Sacrés de la Méditerranée, and in Arsenal de Metz for the Festival Transméditerranéen in 1994), and receiving warm applauses in Belgrade, Tokyo and Kyoto, she took part in the recording of the album Borboréo by the guitarist Juan Carmona.

Grandselve Abbey

Grandselve Abbey (Abbaye de Notre Dame de Grandselve) was a Cistercian monastery in south-west France, at Bouillac, Tarn-et-Garonne.

Gundulf of Rochester

He was a monk of St. Etienne in Caen before he came to England in 1070, as one of several clergy from Bec and St Etienne.

Igny Abbey

Igny Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Igny; translation: "Abbey of Our Lady of Igny"; current: Abbaye N.-D. du Val d'Igny) is a Cistercian abbey located in Arcis-le-Ponsart, Marne, France.

Jouarre Abbey

Jouarre Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre) is a Benedictine abbey in Jouarre in the département of Seine-et-Marne.

Lee Payant

L'Abbaye was the namesake of their duet albums titled Songs Of The Abbaye (1954), Encores From The Abbaye (1955), and An Evening at L'Abbaye (1957) on the Elektra label.

From 1949 until his death in 1976 he and his musical associate and life partner Gordon Heath ran a cafe and nightclub named L'Abbaye on the Rive Gauche in Paris.

Les Sorinières

It is the location of the Abbaye de Villeneuve, where the tomb of Constance, Duchess of Brittany and her husband Guy of Thouars can be found.

Longpont Abbey

Longpont Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Longpont) was a Cistercian monastery, in present-day Longpont, Aisne, France.

Miles of Plancy

He was born in Plancy-l'Abbaye, Champagne and came to the east in the 1160s, where he served King Amalric I, to whom he was distantly related.

Musée Sainte-Croix

Planned by the architect poitevin Jean Monge and built in 1974, it stands at the site of the former Abbaye Sainte-Croix, which was moved to Saint-Benoît, Vienne.

Pierre le Vif

The Abbey of St. Pierre-le-Vif (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre-le-Vif) was a Roman Catholic monastery in Sens.

Priory of St. Andrews of the Ards

To preserve the Falaise family's association with Normandy the priory was donated as a cell to the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary at Lonlay.

Prison de l'Abbaye

The abbaye dated to the earliest era of Paris, when Childebert I (on the site of a temple to Isis or Ceres according to legend) founded a monastery dedicated to the Holy Cross and to St Vincent of Saragossa, which later took the name of its administering bishop Germain of Paris.

Madame Roland, wife of the Girondin Minister of the Interior Jean-Marie Roland, was interned here on her first arrest in 1793 before being transferred to Sainte Pélagie.

Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp

The event is named after the Abbaye de Longchamp, an abbey founded in the 13th century by Isabelle, the sister of Saint Louis.

Randol Abbey

Randol Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Randol) is a Benedictine monastery situated at Randol near the village of Saint-Saturnin, Puy-de-Dôme department, in the Auvergne mountains of France.

Rue de l'Abbaye

The abbot's garden also exists to this day and was the scene of one of the most sombre episodes of the French Revolution, the September Massacres of the 2nd to 5 September 1792.

The abbot's palace (Palais Abbatial), commissioned by Charles de Bourbon in 1586, is still occupied (Nos 1-5).

Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire

This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey).

Savigny Abbey

Savigny Abbey (Abbaye de Savigny) was a monastery near the village of Savigny-le-Vieux (Manche), in northern France.

Senones Abbey

Senones Abbey (Abbaye de Senones) was a Benedictine abbey located in the valley of the Rabodeau, in the present village of Senones in Lorraine, France.

Solesmes Abbey

Peter's Abbey, Solesmes (Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes) is a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes (Sarthe, France), famous as the source of the restoration of Benedictine monastic life in the country under Dom Prosper Guéranger after the French Revolution.

Stogursey

To preserve the family's association with Normandy the priory was donated as a cell to the Benedictine Abbey of St Mary at Lonlay.

Triors Abbey

Triors Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Triors) is a Benedictine monastery situated at Châtillon-Saint-Jean in the Drôme, Rhône-Alpes, France.

Vabres Cathedral

Vabres Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur-et-Saint-Pierre de Vabres) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral in Vabres-l'Abbaye, France.

Valmont Abbey

The painter Eugène Delacroix often holidayed at the Valmont manor house and the abbey ruins inspired his drawing Ruines de l'abbaye de Valmont, now in the musée du Louvre.

Valmont Abbey (Abbaye de Valmont, Sainte-Marie de Valmont or abbaye Sainte-Marie) was a Benedictine abbey in Valmont, Seine-Maritime, France.


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