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Trois-Fontaines Abbey (French: Abbaye de Sainte-Marie des Trois-Fontaines) [1] was a Cistercian abbey in the present commune of Trois-Fontaines-l'Abbaye in the French department of Marne, in the historic province of Champagne.
The territory of the commune was inhabited in prehistoric times and in Gallo-Roman times. A glass factory, founded in 1699, was the origin of the creation of Troisfontaines.
Alberic was likely from a noble Liège family which could afford a good education for him. He became a monk of Trois-Fontaines Abbey no later than 1230. In 1232, Alberic began his chronicle Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium and continued working on it until at least 1251 since he used a history by Gilles of Orval Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium ("Deeds of the Bishops of Liège").
Trois-Fontaines-l'Abbaye (French pronunciation: [tʁwɑ fɔ̃tɛn labe.i]; "Three Fountains Abbey") is a commune in the northeastern French department of Marne. See also [ edit ]
The history of Savoy presents a synthesis of the various periods, from prehistory to the present day, of the geographical and historical entity known as Savoy, a territory whose definition has varied over the course of historical periods, until it was defined by the two French departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie. [1]
The Meuse-Argonne American Memorial (Montfaucon American Monument; French: Monument Américain de Montfaucon) is an American World War I memorial commemorating "the brilliant victory of the American First Army in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, September 26 – November 11, 1918, and pays tribute to the previous heroic services of the Armies of France on the important battle front upon which the ...
Saint-Malo-des-Trois-Fontaines (French: [sɛ̃ malo de tʁwɑ fɔ̃tɛn]; Breton: Sant-Maloù-an-Teir-Feunteun; "Saint-Malo of the Three Fountains") is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France. [3] Inhabitants of Saint-Malo-des-Trois-Fontaines are called in French Malouins.
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