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Hildegard's house, Romanesque and green: a twelfth-century abbey of rough red sandstone on the river where the Quarter of Justice meets the Field, with a herb garden, a cloister and a long writing hall under a painted vault. The Hours are read here, seven times a day: the city's stones in order, aloud, by rota, the oldest defence the Cité has. Between the Hours the copyists work, making vellum copies of stones that are close to blanching, so that at least something of them survives if the wall d...
Located in Cité des Dames.