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== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70800" /> == | == The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_70800" /> == | ||
<p> A town in the dep. of Saône-et-Loire, on an affluent of the Saône; renowned in the [[Middle]] [[Ages]] for its | <p> A town in the dep. of Saône-et-Loire, on an affluent of the Saône; renowned in the [[Middle]] [[Ages]] for its Benedictine abbey, founded in 910, and the most celebrated in Europe, having been the mother establishment of 2000 others of the like elsewhere; in ecclesiastical importance it stood second to Rome, and its abbey church second to none prior to the erection of St. Peter's; a great normal school was established here in 1865. </p> | ||
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia [1]
A town in the dep. of Saône-et-Loire, on an affluent of the Saône; renowned in the Middle Ages for its Benedictine abbey, founded in 910, and the most celebrated in Europe, having been the mother establishment of 2000 others of the like elsewhere; in ecclesiastical importance it stood second to Rome, and its abbey church second to none prior to the erection of St. Peter's; a great normal school was established here in 1865.
