Chantal Convertini
The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. (Took me while to remember where I had seen this).
Laudemus viros gloriosos - Let us praise the glorious men.
The abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was founded in 558 by Germain, bishop of Paris in an area that was outside of the city walls (‘prés’ is French for ‘meadow’). A small village started to grow around the abbey.
The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Roman Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris. It was originally the church of a Benedictine abbey founded in the 6th century, by Childebert I, the son of Clovis, King of the Franks.