Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges
Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges
The Abbey of Notre-Dame des Neiges or Our Lady of the Snows (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Neiges) is a Trappist monastery in the Ardèche département of south-central France. It was built in 1850, located on the territory of the commune of Saint-Laurent-les-Bains, about one and a half miles east of the village of La Bastide-Puylaurent (Lozère). Charles de Foucauld first entered into religious life at this monastery, in 1890. It burned down in 1912 and was rebuilt on a different site nearby.
Robert Louis Stevenson visited in 1878 while on a hiking trip he described in Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes.[1]
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- ^ Stevenson, Robert Louis (1905) [1879]. . Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. – via Wikisource.
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Coordinates: 44°36′01″N 3°56′01″E / 44.6003°N 3.9337°E
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