Editing Avignon (section)

== Administration ==
Avignon is the ''[[prefecture]]'' (capital) of [[Vaucluse]] ''[[Departments of France|department]]'' in the [[Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur]] region. It forms the core of the [[Grand Avignon]] metropolitan area (''[[communauté d'agglomération]]''), which comprises 15 communes on both sides of the river:<ref>{{cite web | title=Les communes | url=http://www.grandavignon.fr/le-grand-avignon/les-communes/ | publisher=Communauté d'Agglomération du Grand Avignon | access-date=25 March 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222204628/http://www.grandavignon.fr/le-grand-avignon/les-communes/ | archive-date=22 February 2019 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Les Angles, Gard|Les Angles]], [[Pujaut]], [[Rochefort-du-Gard]], [[Sauveterre, Gard|Sauveterre]], [[Saze]] and [[Villeneuve-lès-Avignon]] in the [[Gard]] ''{{lang|fr|département}}'';
* '''Avignon''', [[Caumont-sur-Durance]], [[Entraigues-sur-la-Sorgue]], [[Jonquerettes]], [[Morières-lès-Avignon]], [[Le Pontet, Vaucluse|Le Pontet]], [[Saint-Saturnin-lès-Avignon]], [[Vedène]] and [[Velleron]] in the Vaucluse ''{{lang|fr|département}}''.

=== List of mayors ===
'''List of successive [[Mayor (France)|mayors]]'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.francegenweb.org/mairesgenweb/resultcommune.php?id=44|title=francegenweb.org - votre service benevole d'assistance genealogique|first=Robert|last=Weinland|website=francegenweb.org}}</ref>

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{| class="wikitable"
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! From !! To !! Name
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| 1790 || 1790 || Jean-Baptiste d'Armand
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| 1790 || 1791 || Antoine Agricol Richard 
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| 1791 || 1792 || Levieux-Laverne 
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| 1792 || 1793 || Jean-Ettienne Duprat 
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| 1793 || 1793 || Jean-André Cartoux
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| 1793 || 1793 || Jean-François ROCHETIN 
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| 1795 || 1795 || Guillaume François Ignace Puy 
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| 1795 || 1796 || Alexis Bruny 
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| 1796 || 1796 || Père Minvielle 
|-
| 1796 || 1797 || Faulcon 
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| 1797 || 1798 || Père Minvielle
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| 1798 || 1799 || Cadet Garrigan 
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| 1799 || 1800 || Père Niel
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| 1800 || 1806 || Guillaume François Ignace PUY
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| 1806 || 1811 || Agricol Joseph Xavier Bertrand 
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| 1811 || 1815 || Guillaume François Ignace Puy
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| 1815 || 1815 || Hippolyte Roque de Saint-Pregnan
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| 1815 || 1819 || Charles de Camis-Lezan 
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| 1819 || 1820 || Louis Duplessis de Pouzilhac
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| 1820 || 1826 || Charles Soullier 
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| 1826 || 1830 || Louis Pertuis de Montfaucon
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| 1830 || 1832 || François Jillian 
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| 1832 || 1833 || Balthazar Delorme 
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| 1834 || 1837 || Hippolyte Roque de Saint-Pregnan 
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| 1837 || 1841 || Dominique Geoffroy 
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| 1841 || 1843 || Albert d'Olivier de Pezet
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| 1843 || 1847 || Eugène Poncet
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| 1847 || 1848 || Hyacinthe Chauffard
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| 1848 || 1848 || Alphonse Gent 
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| 1848 || 1848 || Frédéric Granier 
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| 1848 || 1850 || Gabriel Vinay
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| 1850 || 1852 || Martial BOSSE 
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| 1852 || 1853 || Eugène Poncet 
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| 1853 || 1865 || Paul Pamard 
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| 1865 || 1870 || Paul Poncet 
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| 1870 || 1871 || Paul Bourges 
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| 1871 || 1874 || Paul Poncet
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| 1874 || 1878 || Roger du Demaine 
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| 1878 || 1881 || Paul Poncet 
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| 1881 || 1881 || Eugène Millo
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| 1881 || 1884 || Charles Deville
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| 1884 || 1888 || Paul Poncet 
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| 1888 || 1903 || Gaston Pourquery de Boisserin
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| 1903 || 1904 || Alexandre Dibon 
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| 1904 || 1910 || Henri Guigou 
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| 1910 || 1919 || Louis Valayer 
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| 1919 || 1925 || Ferdinand Bec
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| 1925 || 1928 || Louis Gros 
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| 1929 || 1940 || Louis Nouveau 
|}
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;[[Mayor (France)|Mayors]] from 1940

{| class="wikitable"
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! From !! To !! Name !! Party 
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| 1940 || 1942 || Jean Gauger || 
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| 1942 || 1944 || Edmond Pailheret ||
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| 1944 || 1945 || Louis Gros ||
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| 1945 || 1947 || Georges Pons ||
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| 1947 || 1948 || Paul Rouvier ||
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| 1948 || 1950 || Henri Mazo || 
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| 1950 || 1953 || Noël Hermitte || 
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| 1953 || 1958 || [[Edouard Daladier]] ||
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| 1958 || 1983 || Henri Duffaut || [[Socialist Party (France)|PS]] 
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| 1983 || 1989 || Jean-Pierre Roux || [[Rally for the Republic|RPR]] 
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| 1989 || 1995 || [[Guy Ravier]] || [[Socialist Party (France)|PS]] 
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| 1995 || 2014 || [[Marie-Josée Roig]] || [[Union for a Popular Movement|UMP]] 
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| 2014 || 2026 || [[Cécile Helle]] || [[Socialist Party (France)|PS]] then [[Miscellaneous left|DVG]]
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===Twin towns – sister cities===
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in France}}
Avignon is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:<ref>{{cite web|title=Jumelages|url=http://www.avignon.fr/ma-ville/culture-et-tourisme/jumelages/|website=avignon.fr|publisher=Avignon|language=fr|access-date=2019-11-12|archive-date=12 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112092005/http://www.avignon.fr/ma-ville/culture-et-tourisme/jumelages/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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*[[Colchester]], United Kingdom since 1972
*[[Guanajuato]], Mexico since 1990
*[[Diourbel]], Senegal since 1961
*[[New Haven]], Connecticut, USA since 1993
*[[Siena]], Italy since 1981
*[[Tarragona]], Spain since 1968
*[[Tortosa]], Spain since 1968
*[[Wetzlar]], Germany since 1960
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=== Evolution of the borders of the commune ===
Avignon absorbed [[Montfavet]] between 1790 and 1794 then ceded [[Morières-lès-Avignon]] in 1870 and [[Le Pontet, Vaucluse|Le Pontet]] in 1925.<ref name=ehess/> On 16 May 2007 the commune of [[Les Angles, Gard|Les Angles]] in [[Gard]] ceded 13 hectares to Avignon.

=== Area and population ===
The city of Avignon has an area of 64.78&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup> and a population of 92,078 inhabitants in 2010 and is ranked as follows:

{| class="wikitable centre" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! scope="col" | Rank
! scope="col" | Land Area
! scope="col" | Population
! scope="col" | Density
|-
! scope="row" | [[France]]
| 524th
| 46th
| 632nd
|-
! scope="row" | [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur]]
| 105th
| 5th
| 23rd
|-
! scope="row" | [[Vaucluse]]
| 6th
| 1st
| 2nd
|}