Vauluisant Abbey
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Vauluisant Abbey,
The abbey was attacked and pillaged and its mills destroyed several times during the
During the French Wars of Religion, Vauluisant suffered further damage: an armed troop partially destroyed the abbey church in 1562, and there were multiple episodes of pillaging between 1571 and 1576. In 1636 Cardinal Richelieu imposed a reform, replacing the monks with strict Cistercians. A bird's-eye view of Vauluisant, drawn for Abbot Le Tellier in 1692 is conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale: it is a precious document of the state of the abbey's structures.[4] A program of restorations was undertaken in the 18th century, funded by the Cistercians' sale of timber from abbey forests. The abbey was secularised in the Revolution and sold as a bien national. In 1835 it was purchased by the progressive banker Léopold Javal (1804–1872), who farmed the estate according to modern principles of agronomy; most of the structures had been demolished, leaving a range of the visitors' lodgings to the left of the fortified gatehouse, and the remains of the abbot's lodging, rebuilt in the 18th century and again 1866-, which constitutes the Château de Vauluisant. Considerable garden works were undertaken at the same time.[7] Modern conservation of the former chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was undertaken from 1965 by M. Jean Gamby, and further conservation of the grange and commons. Vauluisant is the property of Mme Viviane Demoulin Gamby. It is open to visitors Sunday afternoons from April to October.
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At Vauluisant during the time of Léopold Javal, in 1863 or 1865, while the farm was let to Edme-François Pailleret[7] was found the fine marble head of Diadumenos type, a Roman copy after a Greek bronze original, now conserved in the Louvre. Its discovery identifies the site as having been a Roman villa about the time the sculpture was made, in the mid-2nd century CE.
Notes
- ^ Abbé Chevin, Dictionnaire Latin-Français des Noms propres de Lieux ayant une certaine notoriété principalement au point de vue ecclésiastique et monastique (1897) gives the Latin equivalent, "Vallis Lucens".
- ^ The fine Roman head found at Vauluisant shows that it must have been the site of a well-appointed Roman villa.
- ^ The Alain is a tributary of the Vanne; for other place-names marking the presence of the Alans in Gaul, see Alans.
- ^ a b Vauluisant: "Un Bref Historique".
- ^ Nevertheless a thirteenth-century cartulary from Vauluisant survives: Bibliothèque nationale: Mss lat. 9901. (Noted in Jacques Flach, Les origines de l'ancienne France: Xe et XIe siècles [Paris:LaRose and Forcel 1886] p. 35.
- ^ Stéphane Lecouteux, "Sur la dispersion de la bibliothèque bénédictine" note 2
- ^ a b "Un fermier de Vauluisant : un paysan factotum, Edmé-François Pailleret". www.yonne-89.net. Retrieved Feb 11, 2023.
Further reading
- Vicomte Greffié de Bellecombe, "L'Abbaye de Vauluisant en Champagne, où naquit Jacques de Savoie-Nemours," Société Savoisienne d'Histoire et d'Archéologie: Mémoires et Documents, 59.2 (1920)
External links
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