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Abbaye de Jumièges
The abbey of Saint-Pierre de Jumièges (Seine-Maritime) was founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Frankish count of Gascony, around 654 on a royal treasury estate at Jumièges. Jumièges abbey became State property again in 1947, then property of the Seine-Maritime département in 2007 as part of the decentralisation law of 13 August 2004, which allows certain historic monuments to be transferred to local authorities. It is in the canton of Duclair, in the Seine-Maritime.
The abbey of Notre-Dame de Jumièges is a former Benedictine abbey founded by Saint Philibert, son of a Frankish count of Vasconia, around 654, on a royal treasury estate, at Jumièges, in the Seine-Maritime. It has applied the Rule of Saint Benedict since the end of the seventh century.
