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In Avignon: [2] Bibliothèque Calvet, the main library, housed since 1986 in part of what was once a cardinal's palace, the Livrée Ceccano; Musée Calvet, the main art gallery, housed in an 18th-century city mansion (a hôtel particulier), the Hôtel de Villeneuve-Martignan; Médaillier Calvet, a collection of coins and medals
Parc des Sports (Avignon) S. Pont Saint-Bénézet This page was last edited on 9 December 2016, at 23:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
An early wooden bridge spanning the Rhône between Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and Avignon was built between 1177 and 1185. This wooden bridge was destroyed forty years later in 1226 during the Albigensian Crusade when Louis VIII of France laid siege to Avignon. Beginning in 1234 the bridge was rebuilt with 22 stone arches.
Doucet died in 1929 and twenty-nine years later his widow made Jean Dubrujeaud her heir. He in turn left the Doucet fortune and collection to his son Jean Angladon-Dubrujeaud, a painter and engraver living in Avignon and going by the name Jean Angladon (1906-1979). His wife Paulette (1905-1988) was also an artist, going by the name Paulette Martin.
The main courtyard of the museum. The Calvet Museum (French: musée Calvet, pronounced [myze kalvɛ]) is the main museum in Avignon.Since the 1980s the collection has been split between two buildings, with the fine arts housed in an 18th-century hôtel particulier and a separate Lapidary Museum in the former chapel of the city's Jesuit college on rue de la République.
In 1447, during the residency of Bishop Pierre de Foix, who was the papal legate in Avignon, [4] the town council acquired the apostolic palace from the Benedictines of the Convent of St. Laurence and converted it for municipal use. [5] [6] [7] A clock, equipped with colourful jacquemarts to strike the hour, was installed in the belfry in 1471. [2]