Show no more merry dancing on old avignon bridge old avignon in france Is famed as the city of the popes notes a writer in the boston gobe on a hill do dominating the city stands the papal palace where for over 70 years pope held court and all europe came in pilgrimages tilling filling the city with dancing festivals and processions professions process ions built as a great fortress the palace was nevertheless elaborately furnished after the popes returned to nome however it suffered many maicy vicissitudes eyen servin one time as barracks the famous bridge of avignon on which the old folk son song says the p people e ople opie used to annee has fared even worse it has been in ruins for 2 ia years and its crumbling arches now reach only about halt half way across the rhone ithone side by side with its palaces and its ruins avignon carries on its dally daily ure life and sports most mosi famous of which are the plucking pinching of the co carde a bloodless variation of the bull figh instead of killing the bull bill the matador manage to jab the a animal with a stick on the end of which la Is the co carde a rosette decorated with ribbons then the object of the pam gain becomes the switching snatching of the rosette from the bulls shoulder without being hurt |