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Avignon

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A·vi·gnon  (ä-v-nyô)
A city of southeast France on the Rhone River. It was the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of several antipopes from 1378 to 1417. Population: 90,800.
Avignon (French) [aviɲɔ̃]
n
(Placename) a city in SE France, on the Rhône: seat of the papacy (1309-77); famous 12th-century bridge, now partly destroyed. Pop.: 181 136 (1990)
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Noun1.Avignon - 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
France, French Republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe
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Avignon [ˈævɪnjɔ̃] N → Aviñón m


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He would then come upon that part of France which is still in dispute, and he might hope to reach the famous city of Avignon, where dwells our blessed father, the prop of Christendom.
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But now the people of England became very unwilling to pay so much money to the Pope, especially as at this time he was a Frenchman ruling, not from Rome, but from Avignon.
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So much the more for my having threatened with the Bastile a certain Bounet, a priest of Avignon, who wanted to publish a genealogy of the Casa Mazarini much too marvelous.
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