A former Benedictine abbey created in 1047, Abbaye-aux-Dames was the first women's monastery in Saintonge. These powerful women were nuns, that is to say, nuns living cloistered and having taken …
The La Dixmerie estate was once owned by the Brémond d'Ars family. The tradition wants that there would have been then, in this place, a barn with the tithes and …
A few words about the history of this abbey. It was founded around 1111 on the banks of the "Fontaine Douce", by Guillaume de Conchamp, lord of Taillebourg.