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Avignon
[ a-vee-nyawn ]
noun
- a city in and the capital of Vaucluse, in SE France, on the Rhone River: papal residence 1309–77.
Avignon
/ ɲɔ̃ /
noun
- a city in SE France, on the Rhône: seat of the papacy (1309–77); famous 12th-century bridge, now partly destroyed. Pop: 85 935 (1999)
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Dominique Pelicot, 72, was found guilty of all charges by a judge in Avignon.
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Judges in Avignon in southern France found all 51 defendants aged 27 to 74 guilty, but a lawyer for Gisèle Pelicot said on Friday that "no sentence will give her back her ruined life".
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Ms Rault now watched him in the Avignon courtroom and saw the same behaviour.
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The 72-year-old was found guilty of all charges by a judge in Avignon in southern France, and cried in court as he was sentenced to the maximum term.
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Outside a courthouse in Avignon, France, on Thursday, Ms Pelicot said she waived her right to anonymity "so society could see what was happening".
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