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Vauclair

Vauclair - Abbaye Vauclair - Abbaye Vauclair, a story, a very long story! Man has lived on this site for at least 3000 years. Yesterday, before the digs - 21 years of digs - we still didn't know. From the long history of Vauclair, we are sure of very little. Little is known of the history of the Abbey since the 12th century. As for the site, inhabited since the iron age, it was totally unknown before the digs. That was yesterday. Today, in the 21st century Slowly, almost regretfully, Vauclair, the discrete, continues to come out of oblivion. wrote Henri de Benoist, President of the Association of friends of Vauclair, which was created in October 2006... “After Father Anselme Dimier, the force of Pierre Pottier, backed by Maurice Bruaux and Aisne County Tourist Board had released its ruins from the cloak of vegetation where they had been resting since the battles of 1917, after Father Courtois, the Vigil of Vauclair for 39 years and the Sources Group had excavated the archaeology of its site and reconstituted its garden of medicinal plants, the time for lovers of the company and silence of Cistercians has come.

Vauclair, a Great Encounter. 

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