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How Avignon passed to the Popes -- The court of Clement VI. -- John XXII. -- Benedict XII. -- Their tombs -- Petrarch and Laura -- The Palace of the Popes -- The Salle Brûlée -- Cathedral -- Porch -- S. Agricole -- Church of S. Pierre -- The museum -- View from the Rocher des doms -- The Rhone -- The bridge -- Story of S. Benezet -- Dancing on bridges -- Villeneuve -- Tomb of Innocent VI. -- The Castle at Villeneuve -- Defences -- Tête-du-pont of the bridge.
We leave Languedoc and are again in Provence, or what was Provence, till the Popes by a fraud obtained it. Avignon belonged to Provence, which was claimed by Charles of Anjou in right of his wife, and it had descended to his son, Charles II. of Naples. On the death of the latter it fell to Robert of Naples, and from him to his grand-daughter, Joanna, the heiress of the Duke of Calabria.