 Many "memoria" of monarchs and their family members are emerging from their scriptorium, along with the "Lives" of several saints.Gisèla was particularly famous for her intelligence and learning, and for demanding several books and biblical commentaries for the monastery’s library.The nuns owned, or at least had access to, the "Annales regni Francorum" and "Continuationes Fredegarii", which were and both remain significant sources for history-writing.