monks with strict Cistercians. A bird's-eye view of Vauluisant, drawn for Abbot Le Tellier in 1692 is conserved in the Bibliothèque nationale: it is a precious document of the state of the abbey's structures. A program of restorations was undertaken in the 18th century, funded by the Cistercians' sale of timber from abbey forests. The abbey was secularised in the Revolution and sold as a bien national. In 1835 it was purchased by the progressive banker Léopold Javal (1804–1872), who farmed the estate according to modern principles of agronomy; most of the structures had been demolished, leaving a range of the visitors' lodgings to the left of the fortified gatehouse, and the remains of the abbot's lodging, rebuilt in the 18th century and again 1866-, which constitutes the "Château" of Vauluisant. Considerable garden works were undertaken at the same time. Modern conservation of the former chapel of St. Mary Magdalene was undertaken from 1965 by M. Jean Gamby, and further conservation of the grange and commons. Vauluisant is the property of Mme Viviane Demoulin Gamby. It is open to visitors Sunday afternoons from April to October. At Troyes, the Hôtel de Vauluisant, the abbot's seat in the cathedral city, has housed the Musée historique de Troyes et de Champagne, with a decorative arts collection that includes a 19th-century model of Troyes Cathedral. At the market centre of Provins, another Hôtel de Vauluisant conserves its 13th-century façade. At Vauluisant during the time of Léopold Javal, in 1863 or 1865, while the farm was let to Edme-François Pailleret was found the fine marble head of Diadumenos type, a Roman copy after a Greek bronze original, now conserved in the Louvre. Its discovery identifies the site as having been a Roman villa about the time the sculpture was made, in the mid-2nd century CE. Notes Further reading Vicomte Greffié de Bellecombe, "L'Abbaye de Vauluisant en Champagne, où naquit Jacques de Savoie-Nemours," Société Savoisienne d'Histoire et d'Archéologie: Mémoires et Documents, 59.2 (1920) External links Ministère de Culture: Vauluisant A manuscript of Josephus from the scriptorium of Vauluisant, second half of the twelfth century, gives an example of the spare Cistercian illuminations 1127 establishments in Europe 1120s establishments in France Religious organizations established in the 1120s Cistercian monasteries in France Buildings and structures in Yonne Christian monasteries established in the 12th century