The young community found patrons in the seigneurs of Simiane, whose support enabled them to build the abbey church, consecrated in 1178.
Almodis was the second wife of Guiraut I de Simiane, who also ruled Apt and Gordes.
The most spectacular changes removed 4 metres of silt from the Forum Romanum, taking the profile down to the level of the Via Sacra.
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Broadly speaking, the Forum recognized in Piranesi's etchings was transformed to the forum we know today.
For a while in the early 1520s Sermisy was a canon at Notre-Dame-de-la-Rotonde in Rouen, but he left there in 1524 to take a similar position in Amiens.