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a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism

This one about the bridge in Avignon.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed

I drove Rosemary as far as Avignon and put her on her train there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
Ah, you mean the old Palace of the Popes, at Avignon!
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
[2] Clement V., who will come from Avignon, and in a little more than ten years after the death of Boniface.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
He had, probably, somewhat to do with Marshal Brune, having been a porter at Avignon in 1815.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The southern districts were ill-watched in particular, in consequence of the disturbances that were perpetually breaking out in Avignon, Nimes, or Uzes.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
May be his sister is worse at Avignon, and has sent for him over.
Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
I have been doing odds and ends at Avignon, at Pont Esprit, at Lyons; upon the Rhone, upon the Saone.'
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
The question upset them, because Snowden had been killed over Avignon when Dobbs went crazy in mid-air and seized the controls away from Huple.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
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.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
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.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
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.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
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.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
I have been in France for four days, in Avignon for two.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
We're meeting up in Paris, and then we'll take the train down to Avignon.
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
From Lyons to Avignon (still by steamboat)....
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
From Avignon to Marseilles, seven francs....
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
'You went to Piltchard and Wren after the first Avignon mission and told them you didn't ever want to fly with me.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Orr got knocked down into the water again last week on that second mission to Avignon.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

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