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Barbery

The Lord Robert Marmion gave to the Savigny's abbey peaces of land close to the Cinglais's forest. In 1177, the bull for erection, granted by the Pope Alexander III, set up Raoul Ist, messenger of Savigny, as the first abbot of the Barbery's abbey. So that, Barbery became daughter of Clairvaux. It is around 1639 that the Reformation, known under the name of strict observance, was introduced by Dom Louis Quinet, one of his abbots and confessor of the Cardinal de Richelieu. Despite few backs to the rules of comendation, Barbery was, until the Revolution, a model of Order of Cisterciansy. The abbey's armorial bearings are ?of mouths with acorn of silver with shell gold without numbers?. Today, the monastic area remains extremely eloquent and very Cistercian because the abbey is located at the bottom of a small valley, built against the forest, surrounded with its enclosing wall and crossed by the small stream called Val Clair. Regarding the buildings, the Revolution changed this abbey into quarry of rocks so that a lot of buildings disappeared. Today, it remains the lodge (XVIIIth) changed into an abbey house. This building was finished by the Abbot Louis- -Auderic de Lastours in around 1730. It is with a median part house divided into three bays with big ionic pilasters with two lodges on each part. It remains one wing concerning the cloister rebuilt in XVIIIth. The columns carry arches whom keys are represented by faces surrounded with rope of fruits. It remains a mill, the fishpond and a pond. A big building (XIIIth) for the farmyard remains outside the area as well.