Links: http://wn.Com/Fontenay_Abbey Anita's recommended videos are:

#1 Fontenay Abbey-Great Attractions (France) gives a quick overview of the abbey (video, 1:06 min.)

# 3  Abbaye de Fontenay is a tourist-made video, very good, conducts the viewer inside church, then proceeds through the dormitory and out onto the abbey grounds. (4:09 min.)  Of note:  the plaque with the quote in French, which appears toward the end of the video is excerpted from a letter of St. Bernard of Clairvaux:  “We learn more in the woods than we do from books.  The trees and the rocks will teach you things you cannot learn elsewhere.”  (Letter 106)

#4  still photos (:23 seconds)  Quick but excellent.  Note: grisaille windows.

#5  Photos (4:08) accompanied by monastic music

#6 Photos (5:39) accompanied by music.  Numerous photos give a complete overview of the abbey

 

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