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Comtat Venaissin (kəNtä` vənäsăN`) or Comtat, region of SE France, Vaucluse dept., comprising the territory around Avignon Avignon , city (1990 pop. 86,440), capital of Vaucluse dept., SE France, on the Rhône River. It is a farm market with a wine trade and a great variety of manufactures.
..... Click the link for more information. . Well-irrigated, it is a truck-farming and fruit-growing area. Comtat Venaissin was given by King Philip III to Pope Gregory X in 1274. Succeeding French kings sought to regain the region, but it remained in papal hands until 1791, when a plebiscite was held and the inhabitants voted to reunite with France. The region's historic capital was Carpentras Carpentras , town (1990 pop. 25,477), Vaucluse dept., SE France, in Provence. It is an important farm market and a small industrial center. Of Gallo-Roman origin, it was an episcopal see from the 3d cent. and was ruled by its bishops until the French Revolution.
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During the French Revolution, the factory kept on producing as it was located in the Comtat Venaissin, a region under the authority of the pope then Avignon, and not belonging to the court in France.

400 years of history ends as French paper mill folds by AFP / AFP Global Edition

Nearby Roussillon didn't come under the French crown until 1642, and neighboring Comtat Venaissin held out until three years into the French Revolution in 1791.

LANGUEDOC REGION A MELANGE OF FRENCH, SPANISH CULTURE by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

La condition civile des juifs du Comtat Venaissin pendant le XVe siecle.

Pope Eugenius IV and Jewish money-lending in Florence: the case of ... by Griffiths, Gordon / Renaissance Quarterly