Abbey of Saint-Pierremont being made directly subordinate to the cathedral chapter of Metz, the community itself survived until the French Revolution. Abbey of Saint-Pierremont The Ancient Abbey of Canons Regular of St. Augustine of Saint-Pierremont ("i.e.", St. Peter's mountain) (, ) is a former Augustinian abbey in the commune of Avril in what is now the Meurthe-et-Moselle "département" of France (formerly part of the Duchy of Bar in the Upper Lorraine region of the Holy Roman Empire), founded in the late eleventh century and dedicated to Saint Peter. Little is left of the medieval abbey buildings. Some buildings of the eighteenth century survive
Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines Abbey side. Subsequently the abbey declined, and in 1507 was united with Montserrat Abbey. During the French Revolution, the monks were expelled and the complex divided between several owners. The church was reopened to worship in 1846, as the village's parish church dedicated to Saint Michael. The cloister, which had been dismantled and sold, was bought back and re-installed in its original location in the 1980s. The abbey church was most likely built at the same time as the original monastery, in the 8th century. Of the original church there remain some of the foundation structures, which show its plan to