The abbey was dissolved during the French Revolution and the buildings were put to new uses, including a prison, boarding school, porcelain factory and seminary.

The foundation is made in honour of the apostles Peter and Paul, the martyrs Pancrace and Denys and their companions, the saints and confessors Martin, Médard, Rémi and Germain.

The act of foundation is counter-signed by the bishops Adeodatus of Mâcon, Madegilosus of Tours, Chanoaldus of Laon, Maurin of Beauvais, Salapius of Nantes, Hildegarius of Sens and Loup of Limoges.

The act gave the monks ownership of the abbey as long as they followed the rules of Saints Benedict and Columbanus.

He goes on to say "there are many skilled workers in different arts and crafts, and all of them are brought up to the highest perfection by the fear of Christ and the practice of prompt obedience."

[5] When Remacle left the abbey to become bishop of Maastricht, he brought with him Saint Hadelin, a native of Aquitaine, where he was abbot of Celles and then of Visé.

An incursion in 793 of imprecise origin causing damage that required Pepin the Short, then Charlemagne, to grant privileges.

Around 855, Cunibert, Abbot of Solignac, successor to Aigulf, provided monks for the foundation of Beaulieu Abbey.

The Viking incursions caused the arrival of the relics of Saint Martial de Limoges in Solignac.

Charles the Simple, with the agreement of Turpion, Bishop of Limoges, on 18 July 922 gave sixteen churches in Solignac to help it to recover from the destruction due to the period of anarchy.

For example, Bernard II, abbot of Solignac in 983, then of Beaulieu, and finally bishop of Cahors, was a pupil of Abbo of Fleury.

His successor, Amblard, recalls in a letter to Hervé, treasurer and builder of the Basilica of Saint-Martin-de-Tours, that he was his fellow student in Fleury.

The Abbey of Saint-Pierre du Vigeois, founded by Saint Yrieix before 572, joined Solignac at the start of the eleventh century.

In 1031 Géraud III took part in the Council of Limoges during which Dieudonné, bishop of Cahors, preached the truce of God.

Popes Eugene III, in 1147, and Adrian IV granted bulls confirming the titles and rights of the abbey.

The first half of the thirteenth century marked an insurrection of the inhabitants because the merchant bourgeoisie no longer wanted to report to the abbot.

Ruined by the French Wars of Religion and the peasant revolts, the abbey rose again during the Catholic Counter-Reformation, when on 26 June 1619, the commendatory abbot Jean Jaubert de Barrault, Bishop of Bazas, following the example of the Augustian abbey in Limoges, appealed to six monks from the Congregation of Saint-Maur who restored the Benedictine rule.

They encountered the hostility of the monks in place, so the abbey was shared and the Maurists were satisfied with a small chapel until death swept away their opponents in 1635.

[6][7][8] Under the Second French Empire (1852–1870) the abbey became a boarding school for young girls, then housed a porcelain factory until 1930.

They set their sights on the Abbey of Solignac, which they knew from having preached parish missions in the pre-war sector ...

[10] The abbey was then occupied by the Communauté du Verbe de Vie [fr], tenant of the oblates of Mary.

It is probable that the fire of 1178 must have necessitated the restoration of the choir of the abbey which must have been the most affected, but retaining the initial plan because it recalls those of Cahors, Souillac and Vigeois built around 1130.

During the administration of Abbot Hugues de Maumont (1195–1228), the third floor of the porch tower, the religious cloister and the information cloister were built (“fecit feri claustrum per integrum et claustrum de infirmatorio and tertiam partem clocherii superiorem ').