

Attached to the north facade of the Church Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, a monument listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the cloister was built in the years 1170-80. Destroyed in 1759 and 1766 by the canons and parishioners who no longer wanted to pay for repairs, it fell into oblivion for two centuries.
The excavations undertaken by Léon Pressouyre between 1963 and 1976 have brought to light three quarters of the elements of the cloister. They reveal a building of exceptional iconographic richness...