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Origin and history

The pre-demonstrated abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Etanche, founded around 1144 by Philippe, Abbé de Belval, initially implanted near Deuxnouds-aux-Bois (Meuse) under the name Faverolles. This double monastery, supported by Alberon de Chiny (Bishop of Verdun) and the lords of Faverolles, also houses a convent of women today disappeared. The church was consecrated in 1147, and the first known charter dates from 1157. The abbey, modest but influential, owns the priory of Benedicte-Vaux, a place of Lorrain pilgrimage.

Destroyed in 1632 by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was rebuilt in 1743, with a chapel completed in 1770. Three abbots mark his story: Dom Dominique Callot (specialist in chemistry and heraldics), Dom Edmont Maclot (known for his piety and writings), and Dom Jean François Joseph Boucart, which constitutes a library and cabinet of medals scattered after the Revolution. The last abbot, Joseph Prélat (appointed in 1786), was expelled in 1790.

Classified as a Historical Monument in 1984 for its chapel and its convent buildings, the abbey is now abandoned. In 2017, the Fondation du Patrimoine launched an subscription for its safeguard, aimed at putting it out of water. Daughter of the abbey of Tart, it illustrates the pre-demonstrated religious architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Lorraine, despite its present state of degradation.

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