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Avignon was the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378.Avignon = a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River
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Avignon was the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism.
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While being interviewed by an American art magazine, Saunière had expressed his distaste for the modernist Cubist movement by noting that Picasso's masterpiece Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was a perfect anagram of vile meaningless doodles. (source)
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Orr got knocked down into the water again last week on that second mission to Avignon. (source)
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I drove Rosemary as far as Avignon and put her on her train there. (source)
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From Lyons to Avignon (still by steamboat)…. (source)
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May be his sister is worse at Avignon, and has sent for him over. (source)Avignon = a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River
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I have been in France for four days, in Avignon for two.† (source)
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There was at that time on the banks of the Rhone, in a forest situated between Avignon and Arles, a dragon, half animal, half fish, larger than an ox, longer than a horse, with teeth as sharp as horns, and great wings at either side of its body; and this monster slew all the travelers and sank all the boats.† (source)
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So suppose I wasn't created to read a great declaration, or to boss a palatinate, or send off a message to Avignon, and so on, I could see, so there nevertheless was a share for me in all that had happened.† (source)
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Ah, you mean the old Palace of the Popes, at Avignon!† (source)
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He had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter at Avignon in 1815.† (source)
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He found her at last acting with great success at Avignon under the same name, looking more majestic than ever as a forsaken wife carrying her child in her arms.† (source)
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I have been doing odds and ends at Avignon, at Pont Esprit, at Lyons; upon the Rhone, upon the Saone.'† (source)
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The turning of the eyes of the harlot upon Dante seems to signify the dealings of Boniface with the Italians, which awakened the jealousy of Philip; and the dragging of the car, transformed into a monster, through the wood, so far as to hide it from the poet, may be taken as typifying the removal of the seat of the Papacy from Rome to Avignon, in 1305.† (source)
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My Lady's maid is a Frenchwoman of two and thirty, from somewhere in the southern country about Avignon and Marseilles, a large-eyed brown woman with black hair who would be handsome but for a certain feline mouth and general uncomfortable tightness of face, rendering the jaws too eager and the skull too prominent.† (source)
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