L'Aumône Abbey

L’Aumône Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de l’Aumône, Latin: Eleemosynae; also known as French: Petit-Cîteaux, Latin: Cistercium minus) is a former Cistercian monastery in the commune of La Colombe, Loir-et-Cher, France, 34 kilometres north of Blois in the Forêt de Cîteaux, part of the Forêt de Marchenoir.

The abbey suffered greatly during the Hundred Years' War and by 1396 lay mostly in ruins.

The subsequent reconstruction and the introduction of commendatory abbots proved a serious burden.

The land was sold in 1818 and the debris from the ruins was used as building material.

[1] Of the mediaeval structures there survive a 13th-century dovecote, two 15th-century buildings and a piece of the church wall.