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   Vézelay

   Vézelay is a commune in the Yonne département in the Bourgogne région of France. It is principally noted for Vézelay Abbey (Basilica of St. Magdalene), sited here since the 9th century.
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   Vézelay Abbey

   Vézelay Abbey (now known as Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine) was a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the Yonne département in Burgundy, France. The Benedictine abbey church of Ste-Marie-Madeleine (or Basilica of St. Mary Magdalene), with its complicated program of imagery in sculpted capitals and portals, is one of the outstanding masterpieces of Burgundian Romanesque art and architecture, though much of its exterior sculpture was defaced during the French Revolution.
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   Paule Vézelay

   Paule Vézelay (1892 – 1984) ... In many of her works, Vézelay’s form of abstraction was outside the main concepts of Constructivism e.g. floating shapes.
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   Foissy-lès-Vézelay

   Foissy-lès-Vézelay is a town and commune in the Yonne département, in France.
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   Fontenay-près-Vézelay

   Fontenay-près-Vézelay is a town and commune in the Yonne département, in France.
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   Romanesque architecture

   The earliest pointed vault in France is that of the narthex of La Madeleine, Vézelay, dating from 1130.
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   Mary Magdalene

   The competition between the Cluniac Benedictines of Vézelay and the Dominicans of Saint-Maxime occasioned a rash of miraculous literature supporting the one or the other site.
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   Way of St. James (route descriptions)

   The Vézelay route passes through the central massif and continues to Le Puy-en-Velay.
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   Romain Rolland

   In 1937, he came back to live in Vézelay, which, in 1940, was occupied by the Germans.
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    List of Benedictine monasteries in France

    Vézelay Abbey (Abbaye de Vézelay), monks, Diocese of Autun (Vézelay, Yonne)

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• Romanesque architecture,
• Mary Magdalene,
• Way of St. James (route descriptions),
• Romain Rolland,
• List of Benedictine monasteries in France