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    Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (French pronunciation: [vil'nœv lez‿avi'ɲɔ̃]; Provençal: Vilanòva d’Avinhon) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France...
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    The Fort Saint-André is a medieval fortress in the commune of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in the Gard département of France, dating from the first half of the...
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    Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is an oil painting of the mid-15th century that is considered one of the outstanding works of art of the late Middle Ages...
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    seat is in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. It consists of the following communes: Les Angles Pujaut Rochefort-du-Gard Saze Villeneuve-lès-Avignon "Décret n° 2014-232...
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    three centuries in the monastery Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, for which it was commissioned by a local clergyman, Jean de Montagny...
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    shares a border with the department of Gard and the communes of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Les Angles and to the south it borders the department of Bouches-du-Rhône...
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  • final form was approved by Pope Gregory XI in a bull issued at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on 20 August 1372, and it was ratified by Queen Joan I of Naples...
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    town of Avignon, in southern France. Only four arches survive. An early wooden bridge spanning the Rhône between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Avignon was built...
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    Notre-Dame (French: Collégiale Notre-Dame) is a Gothic church in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Gard, Occitanie, France. It was completed in 1314 and consecrated...
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    Tour Philippe-le-Bel (English: Tower of Philip the Fair) is a medieval tower in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon which marked the French terminus of the Saint-Bénézet...
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    Saint-André Abbey (abbaye Saint-André) was a Benedictine abbey in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon at the top of Mont-Andaon. "He consecrated himself to God in this...
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    Occitanie region in Southern France. Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone station has rail connections to Narbonne, Montpellier and Avignon. The name Maguelone is a variation...
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    Pope Innocent VI (category Avignon Papacy)
    His tomb is located in the Chartreuse du Val de Bénédiction in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. Étienne, born during the late 1280s, was the son of Adhemar Aubert...
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    Jean-Baptiste Franque (Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, February 1, 1683 - Avignon, March 26, 1758) was a French architect. He was the father of François II Franque...
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    William Marx (born 1966 in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon) is a French writer and researcher into literature. He is a researcher at the Collège de France, where...
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    Louvre (redirect from Le Louvre)
    established in 1897 and donated prominent works, such as the Pietà of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The expansion of the museum and its collections slowed after World...
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  • Haute-Garonne département Villeneuve-le-Roi, in the Val-de-Marne département Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, in the Gard département Villeneuve-lès-Béziers, in the Hérault...
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    Avignon's survival as a papal enclave was, however, somewhat precarious, as the French crown maintained a large standing garrison at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon...
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    Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone is a railway station in Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, Occitanie, southern France. Within TER Occitanie, it is part of line 21 (Narbonne–Avignon)...
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    Calvet Museum (category Museums in Avignon)
    Saint-Just. Paul Huet : General view of Avignon and Villeneuve-lès-Avignon from inside the fort Saint-André ; View of Avignon from the North Side. Théodore Chassériau :...
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    Saint-André à Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Château de Saint-Jean-du-Gard, in Saint-Jean-du-Gard Château de Saint-Laurent-Le-Minier, in Saint-Laurent-le-Minier Château...
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    by a maker native to Portugal; the other, built by Louis Bas in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in 1781, is the earliest extant French grand piano. Other extraordinary...
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    The gare d'Avignon-Centre (Avignon Central railway station) is a railway station serving the city of Avignon, in Vaucluse, France. It is on the Paris–Marseille...
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    Pope Gregory XI (category Avignon Papacy)
    failed. Gregory confirmed a treaty between Sicily and Naples at Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on 20 August 1372, which brought about a permanent settlement between...
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    Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael, c. 1514–15 Le rire (The Laugh) by Eugène Bataille or Sapeck, 1883 Le goûter (Tea Time) by Jean Metzinger, 1911, oil...
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    other side of the Rhône above Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, wood came from Savoy, lime for the mortar came from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and sand came from islands...
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    Mediterranean Thriller Prize at the Villeneuve-lès-Avignon Festival, and the Michel Lebrun Grand Prize of the 25th hour of Le Mans, the Readers' Priye at Sang...
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    bretèche survives above the entrance to the Tour Philippe-le-Bel in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon. The two large ruined walls to the west of the donjon formed...
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    on 28 October 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021. Bonfante, Pietro (1903). Le leggi di Hammurabi re di Babilonia (a. 2285-2242 a. C.) con prefazione e note...
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    Roquemaure (Gard) opposite Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Vaucluse) Avignon (Vaucluse) opposite Villeneuve-lès-Avignon (Gard) Beaucaire (Gard) opposite Tarascon (Bouches-du-Rhône)...
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