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Located between Rivedoux and the Fleet, it would have been built on the ground of a Roman camp. In 1160, Eble de Mauléon gives to Cisterciens the property with all | 
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royalties out of wine and grains, its préclôtures,
its wood, meadows, wild rabbits, vines, right of communal oven, shipwreck, hunting of any venaison, of high jurisdiction, average and low. In 1468, Louis XI declares the abbey "foundation royal" in which Marie of Anjou, her mother and woman of Charles VII was buried. |
| The abbey undergoes competitions of all kinds and destruction periodic. Until 1790, Chateliers were a place of pilgrimage for the rural populations which made to évangéliser their children there. In 1793, the revolution sold the roof and the ornaments but could not destroy it in its totality. In 1807, the Navy made given from the land-marks to the department of the interior and the Highways Departments rejointed and bleached the remaining ruins. | 
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Today, it is almost the passage obliged of the holiday
makers in family, of in love, in study.... The illuminations make arose its
beauty.
Make this turning to account to you for the majesty of this old abbey. |
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