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    Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ de pʁe]) is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter...
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    abdication as an extreme abandonment of duty, in other societies (such as pre-Meiji Restoration Japan), abdication was a regular event and helped maintain...
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    near Saint-Germain-des-Prés: Porte des Cordeliers (at the corner of the rue Monsieur-le-Prince and the rue Dupuytren). It was sometimes called Porte de Buci...
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    from the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, had already published a book in the same sense, titled Théâtre des antiquités de Paris, où est traité de la fondation...
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    of the current site of Boulevard Saint-Germain in the SE corner of the enclosure of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The abbey dated to the earliest...
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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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    other Paris churches: the Priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and quickly spread to England and...
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    left for France, where he joined the Jesuits and became abbot of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. His heart was buried there. In the late 17th century,...
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    Paris Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés Abbey of St Genevieve Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Honoré Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques Montmartre...
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  • schemes - that of the old Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with Hippolyte Flandrin in 1856; that of the chapel at the château de Broglie with Savinien Petit;...
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  • Sébastien de Brossard, with a historical note by François-Joseph Fétis at the beginning. Paris Mazarine: Rés D 4727. Prov. Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The...
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    Ouche Abbey or the Abbey of Saint-Evroul (French: Abbaye de Saint-Évroult; Medieval Latin: Sanctus Ebrulphus Uticensis) is a former Benedictine abbey...
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    The Bois de Boulogne is a remnant of the ancient oak forest of Rouvray, which included the present-day forests of Montmorency, Saint-Germain-en-Laye,...
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    payment in kind paid to the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The right to fermage was 20 livres in 1492, and the bail de l'herbe rose to 27 livres in...
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  • Saint-Germain-des-Prés or Abbaye Sainte-Croix et Saint-Vincent de Saint-Germain-des-Prés), monks, Diocese of Paris (Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés, 6th...
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    our country." The massacres began around 2:30 PM in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and within the first 20 hours more than 1,000 prisoners were killed...
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    brick-and-stone architecture in Paris include the Palais Abbatial of the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1586), the Arsenal (1600), the houses around the Place Royale...
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  • established in 1482 by Louis XI for the benefit of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and was located near the Abbey on the Left Bank southwest of the...
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  • in 1420 but was forced to leave the bishopric and hide at abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés after displeasing Henry V of England, then master of the city...
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  • substitute for Antoine Reboulot [fr] at the grand organ of the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) and since 1973 she holds the same post with André Isoir...
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    Saint-Germain-des-Prés. William died of natural causes at Fécamp.[citation needed] Mocquereau, André, ed. (1901). Codex H. 159 de la Bibliothèque de l'École...
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    north-central France. This town hosts the Abbaye de Fleury, also known as the Abbaye de Saint Benoît (Saint Benedict Abbey). Founded around 630, it is...
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  • Rue de l'Abbaye is a commercial street in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, named after the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It has a length of some 170m...
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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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    plus abbeys, churches such as Saint-Germain-des-Prés, cathedrals such as Notre-Dame de Paris and hotels such as the Hôtel de Crillon. As of 2011 there were...
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    functional bell tower. Saint-Léger-Vauban is also home to the Abbaye de la Pierre Qui Vire, and the Chateau de Rueres. Saint-Léger's primary economic...
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    by Benedictines from Saint-Germain des Prés. The idea of creating an actual convent was down to the patronage of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and the generosity...
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  • Notre Dame de Paris the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés Saint Denis Basilica Matthias of Arras (?–1352) Saint Vitus Cathedral in Prague Villard de Honnecourt...
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    Bayeux. The village's history is closely linked to the Saint Stephen abbey "Abbaye Saint-Étienne-de-Fontenay" founded on his land of Fontenay by Raoul Tesson...
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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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