Clairvaux
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
(CLARAVALLIS), the name of a celebrated Cistercian abbey, in a valley of the Department Aube, in France. Bernard became its abbot in 1115, and the monastery was the model of monasticism in the 12th and 13th centuries. — Neander, Ch. History, 4, 254. (See Bernard); (See Cistercians).
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A village of France, on the Aube, where St. Bernard founded a Cistercian monastery in 1115, and where he lived and was buried; now used as a prison or reformatory.
