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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 a centre of religious scholarship in the Middle Ages. It was suppressed at the time of the French Revolution.

Front of the Church of the Abbey of St Genevieve, in Paris, in a 19th-century engraving of an 18th-century view.

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Abbey of Saint Genevieve

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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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Genevieve

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honour of Genevieve, which was dedicated to Phillippe Cousin, who was the abbot of Saint Genevieve Abbey. It was the first work to portray Genevieve as a...

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Clovis I

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the Library of the Abbey of Saint Genevieve (which was founded by Clovis). However, two obituaries in the abbeys of Saint Genevieve and Saint Denis date...

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Ermenonville Forest

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the priory at Borest dependent on the Abbey of Saint Genevieve, which owned 280 acres (110 ha); and the bishop of Senlis, who owned 500 acres (200 ha)...

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Denis of Paris

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it was later expanded into an abbey and basilica, around which grew up the French city of Saint-Denis, now a suburb of Paris. The medieval and modern...

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List of Merovingian monasteries

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This is a list of monasteries founded during the Merovingian period, between the years c. 500 and c. 750. The abbeys aren't 'Merovingian' as such, although...

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History of Paris

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monasteries of Paris: the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the Abbey of Saint Geneviève. The Right Bank (north of the Seine) became the centre of commerce...

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Richard Augustine Hay

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Regular at the Abbey of Saint Genevieve in Paris, adding the name "Augustine". He took his vows the following year and then went to Saint-Jacques de Provins...

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Congregation of France

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Congregation of France (French: Labaye de Sainte Genevieve et la Congregation de France lit: The Abbey of Sainte Genevieve and the Congregation of France)...

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