place
Avignon
The city in southern France that was the seat of the papacy through much of the fourteenth century; its high 'hermetic' Palais des Papes haunts the card-playing king, and it stands under his right hand against a round, indifferent Rome.
Reading notes
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge §416 Avignon
The southern-French seat of the fourteenth-century papacy and of the Avignon line in the Schism; its high 'hermetic' palace the king dare not let his memory dwell on.