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unusual facts about Le désert


Le désert

The different sections of the ode move from the song of the desert, arrival of a caravan, storm in the desert, calm after the storm and the caravan continuing its journey, the star of Venus, a hymn to the night, dances, sunrise, the song of the muezzin, departure of the caravan and song to Allah.



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Niedermunster Abbey, Alsace

A similar Charlemagne legend relates that a fragment of the cross was given to William of Gellone and kept in the monastery of Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert.

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

A part of the cloister of the monastery was moved to The Cloisters museum of Manhattan.