Chronology of Thoronet Abbey
- 1098 - Founding of the first Cistercian monastery at Cîteaux, near Dijon, in Burgundy, by Robert de Molesme.
- 1136 - A group of Cistercian monks from the Abbey of Mazan, a "granddaughter" of the monastery at Citeaux, found a new monastery called Notre-dame-des-Floriéges, in the Var region.
- 1140 - Raimond and Etienne des Baux donate land for a new monastery in a remote mountain valley 45 kilometers northwest of Fréjus.
- before 1157 The monks move from Floriéges to Le Thoronet
- 1170 to 1200 (?) Construction of the monastery
- 1176 - Alphonse I, the Count of Provence, confirms the Abbey property.
- before 1205 - the troubadour Folquet de Marseille becomes Abbot of Le Thoronet.
- 1785 - The Abbey is declared bankrupt and secularized.
- 1791 A sale of Abbey property is announced -
- 1840 Thoronet Abbey is one of the first buildings in France to be classified an historical monument.
- 1841 - Restoration of the monastery begins.
- 1854 - the French Government purchases the cloister and monks quarters.
- 1938 - the rest of the monastery is purchased by the French Government.
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