A Benedictine foundation dating from the reign of William the Conqueror, the Abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte retains an imposing Romanesque abbey church, partially rebuilt in flamboyant Gothic style after the Hundred Years' War. Transformed into a quarry after the Revolution of 1789, the building would have disappeared completely if it had not been removed from its ruins at the initiative of Saint Marie-Madeleine Postel and her still nascent congregation, who had come to settle there in 1832.