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Saint-Germain-des-Prés , historic abbey and church of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It was founded (6th cent.) by Childebert I; several Merovingian kings were buried there. Both church and abbey were several times destroyed; the present church, in Romanesque style, dates from the early 11th cent. The architect Pierre de Montreuil made some notable additions in the 13th cent., but they were destroyed in the French Revolution.

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St-Germain-des-Prés. An abbey in Paris, founded in the 6th cent. St Germanus of Paris dedicated the church (557/9), and it later assumed his name. In the 17th cent. it adopted the Maurist reform and became famous as a centre of scholarship. Most of its buildings were destroyed in the French Revolution, but its MSS were saved.

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