[1] The monastic community was forced to leave France in 1903 and lived then for a few years in Paramon and then in Besalu before they were allowed to return in 1918.

Maxime Jacob, a French composer and Jewish convert to Catholicism, became monk at the monastery in 1929 and was for many years the chief organist.

[5] Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, later pope John XXIII, went for his annual retreat to the monastery in November 1948.

[6] Lambert Beauduin, a pioneer in the European liturgical revival and proponent for ecumenism between Christian churches, was sent to the monastery due to his controversial ideas and influenced many monks here, staying until 1951.

[7] As the monastic community grew, it send out some monks to revive the priory of Madiran which was later transferred to Tournay.