Adelaide of Maurienne spent her last days as the abbess of a Benedictine facility in this location.
Adelaide of Maurienne spent her last days as the abbess of a Benedictine facility in this location. The last abbess of this place's Royal Abbey, Marie-Louise de Montmorency-Laval, was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and the abbey was torn down in favor of gypsum mining. An illuminated manuscript created by a monk named Yves depicts Sisinnius ordering the deaths of several Christians at this location as part of the persecutions under Decius. Generals Lecomte and Clement-Thomas (*) were killed by National Guardsmen while attempting to capture strategically located cannons at this location. The schoolteacher-turned-anarchist Louise Michel was known as the "Red Virgin" of this place, where she died during the Bloody Week of the Paris Commune. This place is thought to take its name from an event involving a man who picked up his severed head and walked for five miles to his final resting place, St. Denis. For 10 points, name this site of the Basilica de Sacre-Coeur, a Parisian hill named for Christian martyrs.
Adelaide of Maurienne spent her last days as the abbess of a Benedictine facility in this location.
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