Bellevaux Abbey

Bellevaux Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1120 by Pons de Morimond,[1] near the present-day Cirey, Haute-Saône, France.

Peter of Tarentaise died there, as he arrived at the abbey in 1174, giving it his relics.

Otto de la Roche gave Bellevaux the sacked Daphni Monastery[3] in Greece shortly after 1205.

All the existing buildings were erected by the last abbot Louis Albert de Lezay-Marnésia, bishop of Évreux between 1762 and 1788.

Eugene Huvelin (d. 1828) bought it in 1817, and installed a Trappist religious community there, which however left again at the outbreak of the 1830 Revolution.