Doorway
Historically, the buildings of Cistercian monks are relatively spare in decoration, but this doorway comes from the chateau added by one of the commendatory abbots, appointed as fiscal and administrative overseers of the abbey in the late Middle Ages, as the population of monks diminished.
The abbey was dissolved in 1792, during the French Revolution; the kneeling angels in the tympanum probably were damaged at that time.
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