 After the site had passed through a number of private hands the church was bought by the French government in 1846 and declared an historical monument, and restoration work initiated.The other buildings of the complex received little attention, however; the state did not acquire them until 1949, and serious restoration took place only in the 1990s.The abbey church was constructed between 1175 and 1230 in predominantly Romanesque style with some Gothic elements on the highest part of the terrain.