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Vezelay - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | A mile and a half from Vezelay, in the village of St Pere-sous-Vezelay, there is a remarkable Burgundian Gothic church, built by the monks of Vezelay in the 13th century. |
 | | The history of Vezelay is bound up with its Benedictine abbey, which was founded in the 9th century under the influence of the abbey of Cluny. |
 | | During the 12th century Vezelay was the scene of the preaching of the second crusade in 1146, and of the assumption of the cross in 1190 by Richard Coeur de Lion and Philip Augustus. |
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