The first written text about an abbey dates from the 9th century. When Christianity expanded to this area, around the 4th cen ...
The Benedictine Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was the burial place of Merovingian kings of Neustria. The Abbey was f ...
Fontevraud Abbey is a religious building hosting a cultural centre since 1975, the Centre Culturel de l'Ouest. It was founded ...
Moissac Abbey was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne. A number of its medieval buildings survive ...
The Basilica of Saint Denis is a large medieval abbey church in a northern suburb of Paris. The building is of unique importa ...
Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in Provence. It was founded in 1148 under the patronage of A ...
The Abbey of Saint-Etienne, also known as Abbaye aux Hommes ('Men"s Abbey'), is a former monastery dedicated to Saint Stephen ...
Vauclair Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located in what is now the commune of Bouconville-Vauclair. The monastery was buil ...
The Abbey of Saint-Victor is a former abbey that was founded during the late Roman period in Marseille in the south o ...
Jumièges Abbey was founded in 654 on a gift of forested land belonging to the royal fisc presented by Clovis II and hi ...
The Abbey of St. Vaast was founded in 667. Saint Vedast, or Vaast (c. 453–540) was the first bishop of Arras and later also ...
Fontfroide is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne. It was founded in 1093 ...
Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican Order priory on a hillside near Lyon designed by architects Le Corbusier and Ianni ...
Mont Sainte-Odile Abbey, also known as Hohenburg Abbey, is a nunnery, situated on Mont Sainte-Odile, one of the most famous p ...
Beauport Abbey was founded by Alain I of Avaugour in 1202. The heyday of abbey was in the 13-14th centuries and the late 17th ...
Saint-Paul de Mausole is a former monastery in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Several rooms of the building have been converted int ...
Remiremont Abbey was founded around 620 by Romaric, a lord at the court of Chlothar II. The men"s monastery disappeared ...
The Abbaye aux Dames ('Ladies" Abbey') was the first Benedictine nunnery in Saintes. The abbey was founded in ...
The treaty of Meaux-Paris, signed in 1229 at the end of the Albigensian Crusade, handed the French crown land to the west of ...
The Abbey of Saint-Germain d"Auxerre was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to its founder Saint Germain of Auxerre, the bisho ...