Chelles Abbey

Early in the Middle Ages, Chelles Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame-des-Chelles) was established (c. 658).

It was initially planned to be a women-only monastery, but it drew a lot of males who wanted to experience a traditional way of life.

A masculine community was later effectively built by accepting dualism.

It was well-known for its scriptorium, where nine illustrious nuns used to write down documents, and of course for its connections to the ruling class of the time.

The traces reveal that the manuscript illumination was in a very quaint writing style, despite the fact that there is little to no proof of it.

Overall, the Chelles scriptoria are regarded as the most productive and intellectually average of the 8th and 9th centuries.

However, it was destroyed by the French Revolution and the dissolution of the Catholic Church in 1792. And became one of the best Carolingian architectures.