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    centre, which includes the Palais des Papes, the cathedral and the Pont d'Avignon, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1995 because of its architecture...
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    publiques de la ville d'Avignon, by Paul Achard, 1857, Université d'Oxford "Sopron". Retrieved 3 January 2014. "Medieval Synagogue, Budapest". Retrieved...
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    Vallentin Du Cheylard (1890). Notes sur la chronologie des vice-légats d'Avignon au XVIe siècle: extrait des Mémoires de l'Académie de Vaucluse (in French)...
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    mitzvah celebration at the age of 13. Kafka never enjoyed attending the synagogue and went with his father only on four high holidays a year. After leaving...
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    at six o'clock in the morning, my father got up and went off to the synagogue. There he said his usual prayer for some dead man or other. On his return...
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  • Favorite 'Dark Shadows,' Dies at 84 Mort de l'ancien député maire socialiste d'Avignon Guy Ravier (in French) Tero Rönni on kuollut (in Finnish) Décès de Colette...
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    with a Pipe) in 1905, and one of his most noted works, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1907, considered by art historians as a proto-Cubist painting (the...
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    Picasso painted one of his most important masterpieces, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Several composers, including Erik Satie, lived in the neighbourhood....
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    been an important centre of French Judaism and is home to the oldest synagogue in France, which opened in 1367 and is still active today[when?]. The...
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    Heroicus Sublimis (Man, Heroic and Sublime) Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Jackson Pollock, One: Number 31, 1950 Henri Rousseau, The Dream, 1910...
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