- EURE. ABBEY OF BREUIL-BENOIT. Count of... - Lot 506 - Vermot et Associés

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- EURE. ABBEY OF BREUIL-BENOIT. Count of... - Lot 506 - Vermot et Associés
- EURE. ABBEY OF BREUIL-BENOIT. Count of REISET. Private archive concerning the Count of REISET, from the 19th c. (1844) and XXth. Approximately 140 letters and documents: Letters of Count REISET, Correspondence, File on the restoration of the Chapel, memoirs, leases, invoices, payments, receipts, 1 engraving, 1 newspaper, 6 photos, 43 postcards concerning mainly the Abbey of Breuil. Letter A.S. of Count Henri de REISET, Paris 30 Oct. 1845, 1p in-4°, he hastens to answer the letter informing him of his admission to the membership of the History of France. "I am happy to be part of this society, founded for such an interesting and useful purpose..." (Only Cistercian abbey-church preserved in Normandy. Impressive Gothic vessel dating from the 12th and 13th centuries. Guillaume de Marcilly had it built on his return from the Crusades. In the 19th century, the Count of REISET, diplomat and enlightened art lover, undertook its restoration in the taste of the Second Empire).
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