Description of Avignon.--The city walls.--Closing of the
gates.--Inconvenience of this custom.--Public walk near the
Rhone.--Tolls of the bridge.--Building of the bridge over the
Rhone.--St. Benezet.--Of miracles.--Inundations.--The Rock of
Avignon.--Palace of the Popes.--Cathedral.--The Glaciere
Tower.--Horrid history relating to it.--Avignon participated in
the calamities of the revolution.--Conduct of the
vice-legate.--Department of Vaucluse, of what it consists.--View
from the summit of the Rock.--Chateau and town of
Villeneuve.--Impressions left by the proscriptions and
confiscations.--Rue Calade.--Public
Library.--Museum.--Infirmary.--Jesuits' College.--Stone of
which the palace and the city walls were built. 219