Solesmes

[saw-lem]

noun

a Benedictine monastery in Solesmes, France, known especially for the work of its monks in editing and performing Gregorian chant.

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It culminated in the ducal tomb at Nantes and the entombments at Solesmes.
How France Built Her Cathedrals
Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
Solesmes restored to the church the Gregorian chant in its purity.
How France Built Her Cathedrals
Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly
That is certainly the case as regards this excursion to Solesmes, for there is nothing, absolutely nothing to justify my alarms.
The Cathedral
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Gradually a resolve has been ripening in me, not quite clear I confess, to take refuge in the Benedictine cloister at Solesmes.
Legends
August Strindberg
We had an interesting breakfast—two Benedictine monks from the great abbaye of Solesmes.
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life
Mary Alsop King Waddington