The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 174
for most of the above particulars. AVIGNON. 149 residence of the Popes in the city. These walls (Fig. 50.)do not represent a very important defensive work, even forthe time when erected ; they are neither sufficiently high norare the towers of suitable construction for a really strongenceinte. They… … KIG. 50. lORTION OK CITY WALL, AVIGNON. ll^CSi Suic. with the side next the town left open, so that in case ofbeing taken by an enemy they could not be held againstthe inhabitants. They are not built, as the towers onthe walls of enceinte of the great castles were, of sizeand strength enough to…
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