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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Morières-lès-Avignon Le Pontet Pujaut Rochefort-du-Gard Roquemaure Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon Sauveterre Saze Vedène Velleron Villeneuve-lès-Avignon CA du...
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    adlé (among). Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, near Avignon Beaumont-lès-Valence, near Valence Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, near Chevreuse Margny-lès-Compiègne, near...
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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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    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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    Joseph Gabriel Imbert (category Artists from Avignon)
    charterhouse of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, but was originally from Marseille, as in a note on his Fuite en Egypte it is detailed that «[E]t les deux autres représentant...
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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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    Liberty Leading the People (French: La Liberté guidant le peuple [la libɛʁte ɡidɑ̃ lə pœpl]) is a painting of the Romantic era by the French artist Eugène...
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    and Beaucaire; the Fort Saint-André and the Tour Philippe-le -Bel in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon served only a military function. During this period Roquemaure...
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    fallen ill in March. He died at the Carthusian convent in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon in Avignon. His wished to be buried in a common grave as paupers were...
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    had no children. He died, following a series of heart attacks, in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon on 17 October 1979, aged 80. The Friends of the Académie Ravel in...
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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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    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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    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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    Guide Michelin Restaurant La Cabro d'Or Baumanière le Spa Hôtel Le Prieuré in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, 5 stars at Relais et Châteaux, restaurant with one...
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    The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...
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