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    The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève) was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became...
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    Hôtel de Ville. The Paris of King Louis-Philippe was the city described in the novels of Honoré de Balzac and Victor Hugo. The population of Paris increased...
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    (2005), ISBN 2-84096-189-X Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Photos and text on church interior on Patrimoine-Histoire...
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    Paperback Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbaye Saint-Victor. Marseille-Tourisme.com Abbaye Saint Victor Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine...
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    The Basilica of Saint-Denis (French: Basilique royale de Saint-Denis, now formally known as the Basilique-cathédrale de Saint-Denis) is a large former...
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    Base Mérimée: Notice #PA00110460, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French) Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel - Centre des monuments nationaux Archived 2013-05-11...
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    Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles de Paris is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It has housed the relics of the Empress Saint Helena...
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    never shown relics as proof. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Abbaye de Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire. List of Carolingian monasteries Carolingian architecture...
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    Islands of Paris On the Seine River Île de la Cité Île aux Cygnes Île Saint-Louis Waterways of Paris Canals in Paris Canal de l'Ourcq Canal Saint-Denis Canal...
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  • St. Victor". faculty.leeu.edu/. Archived from the original on October 12, 2008. "Abbey of Saint-Victor". New Advent. "Abbey de Sablonceaux". abbaye-sablonceaux...
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  • de Saint-Victor de Paris), monks, Diocese of Paris (Quartier Saint-Victor, 5th arrondissement, Paris) Abbey of Saint-Victor-en-Caux (Abbaye de Saint-Victor-en-Caux)...
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    Basilica of Saint-Sernin (Occitan: Basilica de Sant Sarnin) is a church in Toulouse, France, the former abbey church of the Abbey of Saint-Sernin or St...
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    public park in 1852. It is the second-largest park in Paris, slightly smaller than the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern side of the city. It covers an...
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    the Abbaye de Saint-Magloire on rue Saint-Denis (at the site of today's number 82). 1564 Construction begins of the Tuileries Palace for Catherine de' Medici...
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    i-m-patron.gr. "La croix de Saint André". Vexil.prov.free.fr. Retrieved 6 September 2013. Denoël 2004. "Abbaye Saint-Victor de Marseille, monuments historiques...
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    (French: Abbaye de Penthemont, Pentemont, Panthemont or Pantemont) is a set of 18th and 19th-century buildings at the corner of Rue de Grenelle and Rue de Bellechasse...
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    1056. Saint-Lô is famous for its goldsmiths and even Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror, ordered two candelabra for the Abbaye aux Dames [fr]...
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    Sack of Dinant (redirect from Sac de Dinant)
    the north, you'll find the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Leffe [fr] neighborhood and Leffe faubourg. To the south, the Rivages and Saint-Nicolas right-bank neighborhoods...
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    château de Grosbois is a castle in Boissy-Saint-Léger, Val-de-Marne, France. In 1190, Philip II of France gave the abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris lands...
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    Frigolet Abbey (French: Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet) is a grand Premonstratensian monastery complex in Southern France. It is located in the territorial...
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    The Abbey of Saint Pons (French: Abbaye Saint-Pons de Nice) is one of the oldest monasteries on the French Riviera, along with Lérins Abbey. It is located...
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    Abbey of Saint-Pierre de la Couture (French: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de la Couture) was a Benedictine monastery in Le Mans. All that survives of it is the...
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    September Massacres (category 1790s in Paris)
    back at the Abbaye prison. The Abbaye prison was located in what is now the Boulevard Saint-Germain just west of the current Passage de la Petite Boucherie...
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    arrondissements of Paris. Left Bank: it is possible to see traces of the wall in the streets along its outer side. These are: rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, rue...
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    of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli in Rome, the Église Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles in Paris, and at the Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Hautvillers. The church of Sant'Elena...
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    février.”), 542 (Abbaye de Saint-Victor de Paris: “III id. febr. [11 February]. It. anniv. domne Adelaidis, comitisse Engolismensis [1218], de cujus beneficio...
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    exhibition brochure, 19 November 2005 - 16 January 2006, Adiamos 89, Musée-Abbaye Saint Germain d'Auxerre, 2005, ISBN 2-909418-26-X. Frédéric Lavignette, L'affaire...
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    Amiens (redirect from Saint-Acheul (Amiens))
    Trois-Cailloux. Fountain of Rue Saint-Jacques. Convent of the grey sisters (18th century, historic monuments, 1992). Abbaye Saint-Jean-des-Prémontrés [fr] (18th...
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    dedication of the Abbaye de Saint-Amant-de-Boixe. Married the daughter of Aimery, vicomte de Rochechouart, and they had two children. Foucauld II de La Rochefoucauld...
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    The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la Bastille [pʁiz də la bastij]) occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents...
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