Solesmes
Americannoun
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When French presidential contender François Fillon marked the Feast of the Assumption last summer, he attended Mass at Solesmes Abbey, a Benedictine monastery known for defying the anticlerical purges of the French Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 2017
In 1833 a young French priest named Prosper Gueranger, with 40,000 borrowed francs, founded a Benedictine monastery in an abandoned, 11th century priory at the village of Solesmes in western France.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today Solesmes is the recognized center of Catholic liturgical music.
From Time Magazine Archive
Profoundly interested in Catholic liturgy, she studied at the Benedictine school in Solesmes which Pius X, then Pope, considered the best school of plain song extant.
From Time Magazine Archive
I ordered General Snow to move out to take up a position with his right south of Solesmes, his left resting on the Cambrai-Le Cateau road south of La Chapriz.
From America's War for Humanity by Russell, Thomas Herbert
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