And there lay Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) for many, many years, unloved and unwanted, gathering dust.
The employment minister, Elisabeth Guigou, just did so in Avignon, but was then trounced.
Next week's Avignon drama festival, which drew 98, 000 spectators last year, is also in peril.
He almost succeeded in arresting Pope Boniface VIII at Anagni, and his sons domesticated Boniface's successors at Avignon.
By the mid-century much of the struggle that will lead eventually to the papal schism between Avignon and Rome is already emerging.
They tend to look in places that are magnets for holiday renters, particularly city properties like those in Cannes, Nice, Marseille, Avignon and so on.
Moved by the effort, Picasso contributed three additional creations to the museum, as well as a pencil sketch of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, still on display today.
There were three rival claimants to the papal throne at that time - the Roman Pope Gregory XII, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII, and the Antipope John XXIII.
To some, one highlight of Avignon was a successful push by Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's foreign minister, to demand an inquiry into the causes and conduct of the war.
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More to the point, in the banlieues, the working-class, disproportionately brown-skinned suburbs of cities such as Nice, Avignon and Strasbourg, the jobless rate can be as high as 40%.
He described his most famous appropriation of African masks, "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907), as his "first exorcism painting" and believed its power stemmed from the spiritual potency of his African sources.
When the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired Les Demoiselles d'Avignon in 1937 it was still a largely unknown work, although Picasso had eventually sold it to a collector in 1924.
But within a few years of Boniface's death in 1303, Pope Clement V, his successor, moved the papacy to Avignon, France, repudiated Boniface and quickly began canonization proceedings for the soon-to-be St.
Back at Eurostar, Mr Brown highlights the fact that it already runs direct seasonal services to Avignon in the south of France, and winter services to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, Aime-la-Plagne and Moutiers in the French Alps.
Nearby, a lean, angular Schmidt-Rottluff nude from 1914 awkwardly folds herself into a schematic landscape, as if aspiring to become one of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, while a jagged Kirchner streetscape, 1912-14, offers yet another creative transformation of Cubist notions.
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Speaking alongside other G8 and G20 delegates at the Forum d'Avignon this weekend, Sarko affirmed his commitment to setting up a "national music center" within France, in the hopes of spurring artistic creativity amid a rather dour industrial climate.
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