Region of la Taille Rouge.

The Basilica of Saint-Benoît-sur-loire

The abbey, whose origins can be traced back to 651, is a very beautiful roman building, made in an image that has been reproduced in the whole of the Val de Loire, in Berry, in Poitou and in Normandy. It contains the relics of saint Benoît, founder of occidental monkshood, and the recumbent statue of King Phillip the first, dead in 1108. Its presence reminds of the fact that here, we are in the centre of the ancient Capatian kingdom. The poet Max Jacob lived there from 1921 to 1928. He came back in 1936 and was arrested there in February 1944, before being deported to the Drancy camp, where he died several days later.
Many artists, many of which were friends of Jacob, passed through this village. We can name Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, René Iché, Pierre Mac Orlan, Charles Trenet.
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