Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateaux of France (1893)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York : Scribner · leaf 108
d one of the mostenduring, for it was as far back as the end of theeleventh century that Fontevrault was founded. At this time one Robert dArbrissel, a monk ofhumble but honest parentage and a scholar of somemark at Paris, had begun to distinguish himself bythe fervour and eloquence of his… … FONTEVRAULT 77 success. He was soon surrounded by crowds of menand women, good and bad, of every age and degree,who left all to follow him. At the head of thisvast multitude, which kept increasing every day, thepreacher wandered through town and country untilhis flock of converts became…
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