The abbey was founded in 1145 on land given by Count Bernhard IV of Comminges as a dependency of
Dalon Abbey. In 1169 (or possibly 1163) the new foundation joined the Cistercian movement as a daughter house of
La Crête Abbey of the
filiation of Morimond. Later it became a daughter house of
Loc-Dieu Abbey. From 1577 the ascetic reforms introduced by the
commendatory abbot Jean de la Barrière were practised here, and were so widely taken up in other monasteries that in 1589 the abbey became the head of the
Feuillants as an independent order, which separated from the Cistercian Order. It was dissolved, along with the order of which it was the mother house, in 1791, during the
French Revolution. ==Buildings==