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Thursday, 09 April 2015 00:00

Visiting Vauclair Abby

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Visiting Vauclair Abby

Students from Chauny, France and students from Auckland, New Zealand in a group photo at Vauclair Abby.

This Abby was a Cistercian abbey founded in 1134 by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. It managed to survive until the French Revolution in 1789, when it was finally demolished and sold as "national property". Its geographical location very near to the Chemin des Dames led to what was left of its buildings being almost totally destroyed in 1917 by direct artillery bombardment during the First World War. Only ruins now remain which we briefly walked around.

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