1377 - Arts and Literature.
May 10 – A deputy is appointed to take charge of Chaucer’s duties at customs, Chaucer being busy with diplomatic business.
Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year.
Nicholas Oresme is elected bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of Aristotle are an important contribution to the development of the French language.
Al-Jurjani returns to Shiraz from Constantinople to become a teacher.
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2 Population sans doubles comptes, i.e. not counting those people already counted in another commune (such as students and military personal).
Avignon (pronounced [aviɲɔ̃] in IPA, Provençal: Avignoun) is a commune in southern France with some 88,300 inhabitants in the city itself and 155,500 in the Greater Avignon area.
Avignon - Location.
Avignon is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, in the Vauclu ...
