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October 7, 2014 Convent of Fontelle, Cholet Cholet
Continue on to the Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay, another World Heritage Site. The monastery was built in 1119 by Saint Bernard in the Burgundy Valley in a swampy region, and the abbey still maintains a magnificent Romanesque architectural style to this day. Except for the destruction of the restaurant, all the other buildings have been well preserved. These include churches, dormitories, cloisters, conference halls, boiler rooms, and the residence of the abbot. The monastery was a royal monastery, where louis XV had four daughters who practiced. By the time of Napoleon, it had become a prison. The monastery is large, the cloister is high and the garden is charming. The walls of the monastery are full of religious paintings, and the hall contains the dying sculptures of The Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II of England, next to the pre-death sculptures of their son Richard I the Lionheart and his sister-in-law (this is a bit strange, I asked the explanation, his French English and the intricate relationship between the characters did not make me understand why).
The personal experience of the 83-year-old Duchess of Elano is definitely more complex than wu Zetian's. As the sole heir of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, she was the mistress of the richest region of France at the time, and her personal fief alone surpassed that of the King of France. She first married King Louis VII of France and became queen of France, but during her marriage she hooked up with the Duke of Normandy, the Count of Anjou, Henry II. When he divorced Louis VII because he did not have a male heir, he married Henry II directly. Later, Henry II succeeded to the English throne, she became the Queen of England, and gave birth to four sons and three daughters, including Richard, the "Lionheart King". Henry II then turned against his three concubines, and Elano sided with his sons and was imprisoned by her husband for 15 years. Freed after her husband's death, Elano supported Richard I as King of England. Later, when Richard I was captured in the Crusades, she personally raised funds for rescue. Soon after, the vengeful Richard I was wounded on the battlefield and died in his mother's arms. Elano was caught in the vortex of her youngest son and grandson for the British throne until his death, completing her vigorous, tortuous and legendary life. She and the two daughters of the King of France and the three daughters of the King of England were married to the royal families of the European continent, and the marriage was basically very happy, and she gave birth to many grandchildren, so she was called the "Royal Grandmother of Europe" of that era. She predates Queen Victoria, who later became known as the "Old Grandmother of Europe".
Arriving at Cholet in the evening, another of his wife's clients was in the city. Our hotel was arranged on the side of the cathedral in the city center. After dinner, I downloaded a book on the Kindle about royal marriages in Europe, looked at those similar names and titles, and the complicated marriage relationships between each other, and fell into a deep sleep without ten minutes.