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Aube is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 305,606 inhabitants , Aube is 76th department in terms of population. The inhabitants of the department are known as Aubois or AuboisesThe department was constituted as it is today by a decree of the National Assembly of 15 January 1790.
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  • 2. Musee D'art Moderne Troyes
    The Musée d'art moderne de Troyes is one of the two main museums in the French city of Troyes - the other is the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Troyes. It is located in the city's former 16th- and 17th-century episcopal palace. It was opened in 1982 by president François Mitterrand following Pierre and Denise Lévy's 1976 donation of several modern artworks to their home-town of Troyes.
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  • 4. Musee Saint-Loup Troyes
    The Abbey of Saint-Loup of Troyes is a religious building near Troyes in Champagne, France. It was established in the ninth century to shelter the relics of bishop Lupus of Troyes, Saint Loup, the legendary defender of the city against Attila in the 5th century and patron of the city. The monastic community was reformed in 1135 by Bernard of Clairvaux, when the abbot and his monks embraced the Rule of Saint Augustine and became Canons Regular. The Abbaye Saint-Loup, which came to be enclosed within the burgeoning medieval city of Troyes, developed a renowned library and scriptorium. The famous poet Chrétien de Troyes may have been a canon of this monastic house.The abbey was founded — as were many abbeys— in an existing Gallo-Roman villa abutting the former Roman Via Agrippa just outs...
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  • 5. Hotel de Vauluisant Troyes
    Vauluisant Abbey, near Courgenay in the canton of Brienon-sur-Armançon, Yonne, France, is a Cistercian abbey founded in 1127 by a group of monks from the abbey of Preuilly who came to settle between the forest of Othe and the forest of Lancy, an area near the borders of Ile-de-France, Champagne and Burgundy that had come to be far from human habitation. They diverted the waters of the little River Alain and by 1 April 1129, works were far enough advanced for Henri Sanglier, the archbishop of Sens, to consecrate the modest oratory. By 1140 Vauluisant was fully operational. The abbey church was consecrated in 1149. In the second half of the 12th century, granges were established to cultivate abbey lands far from the abbey itself, at Beauvais, Toucheboeuf, Livanne, Cérilly, Armentières, wo...
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  • 10. Musee Camille Claudel Nogent Sur Seine
    The Musée Camille Claudel is a French national museum which honors and exhibits the works of sculptor Camille Claudel. The museum, which holds the world's biggest collection of Claudel's art, opened in 2017 in her teenage home town of Nogent-sur-Seine, 100 kilometers southeast of Paris. The museum displays approximately half of Claudel's existing work.Plans were announced in 2003 to turn the Claudel family home at Nogent-sur-Seine into a museum, and it was negotiating to buy works from the Claudel family. These include 70 pieces by Claudel, including a bust of her teacher, Auguste Rodin. The two soon became associates, lovers, and eventually rivals.Many of Claudel's sculptures can also be seen at the Musée Rodin in Paris, which has a room dedicated to her work and her association with th...
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  • 12. Le Memorial de Verdun Verdun
    The heights of Le Mort Homme or Dead Man's Hill lie within the French municipality of Cumières-le-Mort-Homme around 10 kilometres northwest of the town of Verdun in France. The hill earned tragic notoriety for being the scene of bitter fighting in the Battle of Verdun during the First World War.
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