It was founded in 1117, and had very large possessions, which, with the house, were taken from the monks at the fatal revolution of 1793. In 1845 the building was repurchased, along with 74 acres of land, and peopled with a detachment of friars from the head monastery of the order, the Chartreuse of Grenoble.
"The South of France--East Half"
Charles Bertram Black
And now, these requests of the Lord Giovanni's assumed an almost daily regularity, until it came to seem that did affairs continue in this manner for yet a little while, I should have earned me enough to have repurchased Biancomonte, and, so, ended my troubles.
"The Shame of Motley"
Raphael Sabatini
Every day he lived he would have repurchased the bounty of the crown, and ten times more, if ten times more he had received.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke