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Main nave of the Abbaye de Jumieges.

Walking around this ancient godforsaken temple you are immersed in a current of mixed emotions. Such a shame a wonderful construction like this could have been used to obtain stone.

However, the sensations that invade you when walking along this roofless aisle and its surroundings pierced by the sunset light are of such surreal and magical nature that explaining them in words turns difficult. This would never had happened if the abbey had been preserved whole, so the initial shame is mixed with the joy of being there and living the special moment.

Standing on a loop of the river Seine on its way from Paris to the sea, Jumieges Abbey was a monastery in Normandy, built as far as the 7th century. Destroyed by the Vikings, it was once and again restored and enlarged until the 15th century.

Then, the English invasions, the Huguenots, the Wars of Religion and finally the French Revolution were more than it could take and the ab...

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