No trip to Burgundy would be complete without a visit to L’Abbaye de Fontenay, near Montbard. The Cistercian monastery remained self-sufficient until the sixteenth century—in its heyday boasting a community of more than two hundred monks. Converted to a paper mill in 1791, the abbey was returned to its former glory at the turn of the twentieth century.
Text Melissa Lester
Photography Jim Bathie
To learn more about Burgundy, see “Exploring the Pastoral Setting of Burgundy” on page 47 of the May/June 2016 issue of Victoria.