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    The Pont Saint-Bénézet (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ sɛ̃ benezɛ]; Provençal: Pònt de Sant Beneset), also known as the Pont d'Avignon (IPA: [pɔ̃ daviɲɔ̃])...
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    Bénézet, it is said, lifted a huge stone into place, and announced it would be the start of the foundation. This would become the Pont Saint-Bénézet....
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    (officially Pont Saint-Bénézet) that dates back to the 15th century. The dance actually took place under the bridge and not on the bridge (sous le Pont d'Avignon...
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    Viollet-le-Duc. Bridges include: The Pont Saint-Bénézet, better known as the Pont d'Avignon and for the French song Sur le pont d'Avignon. Only four of the twenty...
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    Pont-Saint-Esprit (French pronunciation: [pɔ̃ sɛ̃.t‿ɛspʁi], literally "Holy Spirit Bridge"; Occitan: Lo Pònt Sant Esperit) is a commune in the Gard département...
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  • The name Benezet or the accented Bénézet may refer to: Saint Benezet (c. 1163 – 1184), medieval saint Anthony Benezet (1713–1784), Quaker educationalist...
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    Pont Saint-Bénézet which lay less than kilometer from the abbey. In 1309, Pope Clement V moved the papacy from Rome to Avignon. The fortress of Saint-André...
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    highway"), which remain unfinished and unconnected to the road network. Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon over the Rhône river. Several arches were broken by flood...
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    demolition or to their conversion to secular use. Pont Saint-Bénézet, Avignon, France, Chapel of Saint Nicholas; 12th century, restored from 1878 The Town...
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  • included. Some "covered" or "roofed" bridges, such as Pont de Rohan, in Landerneau, and the Pont des Marchands, in Narbonne, both in France, have residential...
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  • (1841–1914) Our Founder: Fr. Benedict Menni Benedict XVI on Saint Benedict of Norcia St. Benezet — Catholic Online Solenne canonizzazione del beato Benildo...
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    Marc-Antoine; et al. (2013). "Géoarchéologie du Rhône dans le secteur du pont Saint-Bénézet (Avignon, Provence, France) au cours de la seconde moitié du deuxième...
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    country road lined with plane trees Flamingos in the Camargue Sisteron Pont Saint-Bénézet at sunset Croix de Provence on Mount Sainte-Victoire Occitania Bastide...
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    Chapel Saint-Bénezet on the Pont Saint-Bénézet, or Bridge of Avignon (second half of 12th century) Interior of the chapel on the Pont Saint-Bénézet in Avignon...
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    structures known. Pont Saint-Bénézet (1177–1188) at Avignon, Vaucluse Pont-de-Saint-Nicolas de Campagnac (1261) at Sainte-Anastasie, Gard Roman Pont-du-Gard at...
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  • Saint-Bénézet (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ benezɛ]; Provençal: Sent Beneset) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. Communes of the Gard...
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    III of Forcalquier and Alfonso Jordan (Count of Toulouse). 1185 - Pont Saint-Bénézet (bridge) completed (traditional date). c. 1220 - a second set of city...
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  • Paris Saint Nicolas Church, Toulouse Saint Nicholas Church, Strasbourg Saint Nicholas Chapel, on the Pont Saint-Bénézet, Avignon St. Nicholas Church, Berlin...
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    Catalonia, the 11th-century Puente de la Reina, Navarre and the Pont-Saint-Bénézet, Avignon. Politics The Tower of London (1078); William the Conqueror...
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    The path of early walls in northwest corner of the town near the Pont Saint-Bénézet is obscure due to the subsequent changes to the fortifications in...
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    Catalonia, the 11th-century Puente de la Reina, Navarre and the Pont-Saint-Bénézet, Avignon. The system of monasticism in which the religious become...
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  • St. Bénézet (a Provençal variant of the name Benedict). Bénézet was a youth who, according to legend, was divinely inspired to build the Pont Saint-Bénézet...
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    "Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin". UNESCO. "Decorated Cave of Pont d'Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc, Ardèche". UNESCO. World Heritage Committee. "Sites...
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  • "Chapelle et pont Saint-Bénézet". "Vieux pont sur l'Orb". "Pont du Diable". "Vieux pont et tour qui le surmonte". "Pont de Rohan et maisons". "Pont sur le Tech"...
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  • sculptures, and decorated wooden ceilings. The Pont d'Avignon, also known as the Pont Saint-Bénézet, which crossed the Rhône River between Avignon and...
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    to become Mayor of Orange. He was replaced by Marie-France Lorho. Pont Saint-Bénezet in Avignon Brantes Triumphal Arch of Orange Dentelles de Montmirail...
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    the Tour Philippe-le-Bel and the Pont Saint-Bénézet. Detail from the Pérussis Altarpiece showing the Saint-Bénézet Bridge with the Tour Philippe-le-Bel...
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    Republic (built 1555) Pont Saint-Bénézet at Avignon, France. Le Pont Vieux at Sospel, France. Le Pont Vieux at Orthez, France. Pont Valentré, Cahors, France...
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    Avignon and the pont Saint-Bénézet. Auguste Bigand [fr] : Caravaggio in His Studio. Pierre Révoil : Charles-Quint at the abbaye de Saint-Just. Paul Huet :...
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    Counter-Reformation and include the Chapelle de la Trinité in Lyon and the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis in Paris. In the course of his travels he made almost 200 detailed...
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