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The statues columns the rarest and most accomplished medieval architecture.
Initially, there is the cloister of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux. It is built around 1170-1180.
The canons and parishioners who no longer want to pay for repairs decide to demolish it to build in 1759 in place of the colonial houses. The dismantling has enabled it to escape the destruction of the revolution. The embedded pieces were found in 1963 in the garden north of the present church.
The monastery fell into oblivion for two centuries.
The excavations have revealed three-quarters of the former cloister. As it was impossible to go back to its original location, a museum was established nearby.
It presents the sculptures adorning the monastery in the twelfth century: a set of unique statues, columns, capitals, and decorative pillars historiated to discover. This is a major monument in the history of sculpture in this period of transition between Romanesque and Gothic.
The municipal museum since June 2007.
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France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.
