The cloister of Gellone Abbey, St Guilhem le Désert, circa 1930

Falling into ruin after the French Revolution, its stones looted, its sculptures scattered – and partly bought by an American collector -… this is how the cloister of the abbey of St Guilhem le Désert appeared to the rare visitors in the 1930s. Today, it lives again.

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