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Solesmes

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Solesmes (sôlĕm`), village (1993 est. pop. 1,284), Sarthe dept., NW France. Its famous Benedictine Abbey de Saint-Pierre de Solesmes (founded 1010) was a pilgrimage site and led in the revival of the pure Gregorian chant (see plainsong plainsong or plainchant, the unharmonized chant of the medieval Christian liturgies in Europe and the Middle East; usually synonymous with Gregorian chant, the liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church.
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). The abbey church contains invaluable 15th- and 16th-century sculptures.


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An accomplished musicologist, he researched Gregorian chant at the Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes.
King gives a brisk account of monasticism in relation to Jansenism and has a fine chronicle of the romantic impulses that led Dom Gueranger to found Solesmes in the nineteenth century after buying an abbey with his own funds.
Paul Bellot had hoped to marry Hulot's sister, but she chose instead to become a Carmelite nun a decision that led him to abandon his budding career as an architect in Paris and to join the Benedictine monks of Solesmes in their exile on the Isle of Wight.
 
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