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Châteauneuf-du-Pape

Châteauneuf-du-Pape (French pronunciation: ​[ʃatonœf dy pap]; Provençal: Castèu-Nòu-De-Papo) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. The village lies about 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to the east of the Rhône and 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of the town of Avignon. As of 2019 the commune had a population of 2,055.

Châteauneuf-du-Pape
A view of the village from the southeast
Location of Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Coordinates: 44°03′25″N 4°49′55″E / 44.0569°N 4.8319°E / 44.0569; 4.8319Coordinates: 44°03′25″N 4°49′55″E / 44.0569°N 4.8319°E / 44.0569; 4.8319
CountryFrance
RegionProvence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
DepartmentVaucluse
ArrondissementCarpentras
CantonSorgues
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Claude Avril[1]
Area
1
25.85 km2 (9.98 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2019)[2]
2,055
 • Density79/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
84037 /84230
Elevation20–130 m (66–427 ft)
(avg. 117 m or 384 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

A ruined medieval castle sits above the village and dominates the landscape to the south. It was built in the 14th century for Pope John XXII, the second of the popes to reside in Avignon. None of the subsequent Avignon popes stayed in Châteauneuf but after the schism of 1378 the antipope Clement VII sought the security of the castle. With the departure of the popes the castle passed to the archbishop of Avignon, but it was too large and too expensive to maintain and was used as a source of stone for building work in the village. At the time of the Revolution the buildings were sold off and only the donjon was preserved. During the Second World War an attempt was made to demolish the donjon with dynamite by German soldiers but only the northern half was destroyed; the southern half remained intact.

Almost all the cultivable land is planted with grapevines. The commune is famous for the production of red wine classified as Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation d'origine contrôlée which is produced from grapes grown in the commune of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and in portions of four adjoining communes.

Toponym

The first mention of the village is in a Latin document from 1094 that uses the name Castro Novo. The term castrum or castro in the 11th century was used to denote a fortified village, rather than a castle (castellum). The current French name of "Châteauneuf" (English: "New Castle") is derived from this early Latin name and not from the ruined 14th-century castle that towers above the village. Just over a century later in 1213 the village was referred to as Castronovum Calcernarium. Other early documents use Castronovo Caussornerio or Castrum Novum Casanerii. The official French name became Châteauneuf Calcernier. The word 'Calcernier' comes from the presence of important lime kilns in the village. Calcernarium is derived from the Latin calx for lime and cernere means sift or sieve. From the 16th century the village was often referred to as "Châteauneuf du Pape" or "Châteauneuf Calcernier dit de Pape", because of the connection with Pope John XXII, but it was not until 1893 that the official name was changed from "Châteauneuf Calcernier" to "Châteauneuf-du-Pape".[3][4] The name in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language that was spoken in the village is Castèu-Nòu-De-Papo.[5]

History

Early settlement

 
Saint Théodoric

The earliest settlement is believed to have been near the Chapel Saint-Théodoric, to the east of the current village center. This Romanesque chapel was erected by the monks of the abbey of Saint-Théodoric in Avignon at the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century and is the oldest building in the commune.[6] Although the village lay within the Comtat Venaissin, it was one of the fiefs of the bishop of Avignon and thus had a special status. The bishop of Avignon also held the fiefs of Gigognan and Bédarrides.[7]

In the second half of the 11th century a fortified village was built higher up the hill by the Viscount Rostaing Béranger in the fiefdom of his brother, the bishop of Avignon. The wall of the present church building formed part of the fortification and the arrowslits in the clock tower are still visible. Two towers and other vestiges of these early fortifications have survived.[8] The new village would have contained a suitable fortified residence for the bishop which is believed to have been located between the church and the site of the later castle.[9]

In 1238 the bishop of Avignon obtained an important privilege from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (r. 1195–1250). Salt that was shipped on the Rhône and landed at Châteauneuf would not be subject to tax. As a result, the trade in salt became a considerable source of revenue for the village.[10]

Avignon popes

Bertrand de Got, archbishop of Bordeaux, was elected pope in 1305, and took the name of Clement V. He transferred the papacy to Avignon in 1309. The register of pontifical letters reveals that Clement V visited Châteauneuf on several occasions, sometimes for long periods.[11] While in the village he would have been a guest at the bishop's residence.[12] In 1312 he stayed in the village from 6–22 November. In 1313 he returned from 9 May to 1 July and again from 19 October to 4 December. The following year, 1314, he was in Châteauneuf from 24–30 March. He died in the castle of Roquemaure on the opposite bank of the Rhône on 7 April 1314.[11]

The next pope, Jacques Duèze, was elected in 1316 and took the name John XXII. After his coronation in Lyon on 5 September 1316, he travelled down the Rhône and spent 10 days in Châteauneuf before he arrived in Avignon. He had served as the bishop of Avignon between 1310 and 1313 and while bishop had also been the seigneur of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. He had arranged for his nephew Jacques de Via to succeed him as bishop. But on the death of his nephew in 1317 he chose not to appoint a successor, so during his papacy the village belonged directly to the pope. John XXII initiated a large number of building projects, including additions to the Palais des Papes in Avignon as well as defensive castles at Barbentane, Bédarrides, Noves and Sorgues. In 1317, work began on the construction of the castle in Châteauneuf-du-Pape. John XXII derived little benefit from the new castle, which was not completed until 1333, a year before his death. The ruins of the castle are now a prominent feature of the village.[13]

There is no record of the next Avignon pope, Benedict XII (1334–1342) having ever stayed in this castle, but in 1335 he granted the village the right to have a ship mill on the Rhône, a market every Tuesday and two fairs during the year. He did not keep the post of bishop of Avignon and appointed a new bishop to replace himself in 1336.[14] None of the following four popes stayed in Châteauneuf-du-Pape either, but after the schism of the Catholic Church in 1378, the Avignon antipope Clement VII frequently sought the security of the castle and from 1385 to 1387 had improvements carried out on the building.[15]

In the 14th century the presence of the pope in Avignon and construction of the castle brought considerable prosperity to the village. The economy was based on agriculture, but the villagers also possessed lime kilns and the local merchants supplied roof tiles for the Palais des Papes in Avignon and floor tiles for the castle being built in Barbentane.[16] The village outgrew the mid-11th century defensive walls and houses began to be built outside. In 1381 the village obtained permission to impose a local tax to fund the construction of a new system of fortifications around the village. These defensive towers have all disappeared except for the Portalet tower in the Rue des Papes, but parts of the walls remain.[17]

Pope John XXII's castle

 
Surviving south wall of the donjon

Construction

In 1317, one year after his election, Pope John XXII ordered the construction of a castle at the top of the hill above the village.[18][19] Some of the stone may have been from a local quarry but most was probably imported from Courthézon. The mortar and the roof tiles would have been manufactured in the village. To provide water, between August 1318 and July 1319, a large deep well was dug in the courtyard to the northeast of the donjon.[20] According to the papal accounts, much of the work was completed by 1322, but in 1332 there is an entry for the purchase of timber from Liguria for four towers.[20][21] The castle not only had a defensive role, but was also designed to serve as a summer residence. There was a garden on the west side and a 10 hectare park to the north enclosed by high walls in which vines, olive trees and fruit trees were cultivated.[20]

Neglect

With the departure of the popes the castle became part of the fief of the bishop and, after 1475, the archbishop of Avignon, but it was much too big and expensive for them to maintain.[22][a] The captain in charge of the village's defences lived in the castle but there was no permanent garrison, and most of the buildings were allowed to deteriorate. In the 16th century Huguenots occupied Châteauneuf for several months during the Wars of Religion. In March 1563, they pillaged the village and set fire to the church and parts of the castle including the apartments of the pope. The extent of the damage is not known.[24]

During the 17th century, and perhaps earlier, the ruined buildings of the castle were used as a source of stone for the construction of houses in the village. The community also used the stone to repair the walls around the village (18 to 20 cartloads in 1717) and to repair the church in 1781.[25] At the time of the Revolution the castle had not been inhabited for a number of years. The buildings and the adjoining parkland were put up for sale and bought in July 1797 by Jean-Baptiste Establet, a farmer in the village. The following year, these were resold in 33 equal parts. By 1848 most of the castle had been destroyed by the purchasers.[26] The mayor forbade the destruction of the donjon and in May 1892 the castle was listed as one of the French Historical Monuments.[26][27] During the Second World War, the donjon was used as an observation post by German soldiers. In August 1944, just before their departure, they attempted to demolish the building with dynamite but by chance, only the northern half of the tower was destroyed, leaving the southern half as it appears today.[28] In the 1960s the municipality constructed a meeting hall within the ancient ruined cellar of the castle.[28]

Buildings

 
Drawing from the Album Laincel that dates from the second half of the 17th century

There are no surviving plans of the castle from the 14th century. The earliest depiction is an anonymous drawing from the Album Laincel in the collection of the Musée Calvet in Avignon that dates from the second half of the 17th century. By this time the castle had not been properly maintained for three centuries and the drawing is probably an interpretation by the artist of the surviving structure. Another source of information is a plan of the village from the 1813 cadastre which indicates the position of some of the buildings but not their original function.[29] The appearance of the donjon before its destruction in 1944 is known from old photographs.[30][31]

The main entrance to the castle was just above the village and consisted of two successive gatehouses. The first was on the path up from the church and the second was just to the east of the donjon. The vulnerable north side of the castle would have been protected by a deep ditch. The northern entrance was defended by a tower and was probably accessed by a drawbridge. Very little is known about the buildings of the castle other than the ruined donjon and papal apartments. The castle contained a chapel dedicated to Saint Catherine but the location is uncertain.[29] The donjon had a ground floor with a low barrel vaulted ceiling and two upper levels with rib vaulted ceilings. The large roof terrace was surrounded by a machicolated battlement. The floors were connected by a stone staircase built into the thickness of the western wall.[32] The entrance to the tower on the east side was protected by an unusually tall bretèche. A similar bretèche survives above the entrance to the Tour Philippe-le-Bel in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.[33]

The two large ruined walls to the west of the donjon formed part of a rectangular building reserved for the pope and his close associates. The large ground-floor room was 26 m in length, 9 m in width and 5.5 m in height. The ceiling was supported by wooden beams with three central columns. The floor was paved with large stone slabs. This room, together with a smaller room to the north, were probably used for storage. On the first floor was the great hall of the castle in which banquets would have been held. It had the same dimensions as the ground floor storeroom but with a higher ceiling (6.5 m). It was lit by four large rectangular windows providing views over the Rhône valley. There were also three smaller windows to increase the ventilation, two facing west and one facing south. The walls were decorated with frescoes and a band of large red, bistre and black roses. A door at the north end of the hall opened into a well-lit smaller room with a chimney. The main entrance to the hall was on the east side near the donjon and close to the modern steps. The top floor of the building was lit by three large windows provided with benches and three smaller rectangular windows. The irregular pattern of the windows suggests that there were several rooms, perhaps apartments for the pope. The tiled roof with two equal slopes was entirely protected by the large outer walls.[34]

Tiles

An archaeological excavation carried out in 1960 in the basement of the ruined rectangular building recovered a number of small glazed terracotta floor tiles. They date from the first half of the 14th century and would have originally decorated the main hall on the first floor. The tiles are square, 125–130 mm on a side and 20 mm in thickness. They are decorated in a Hispano-Moresque style which is more usually associated with dishes and jugs. Many have a plain coloured glaze, either green, yellow or occasionally black but some have designs in brown or green on a white tin glazed background.[35][36] The tiles are similar to those discovered in 1963 on the floor of Pope Benedict XII's studium in the Palais des Papes. The room was built between 1334 and 1342 and is therefore a little later. The Châteuneuf tiles are slightly larger and often have animal designs. They were almost certainly manufactured in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie. The papal accounts record large purchases of tiles in 1317.[37][38][b]

In 1994, a small archaeological excavation was carried out on the terrace at the foot of the southern façade of the papal quarters. Altogether fifty tiles were recovered that had been scattered in the modern landfill. At the same time, a survey was conducted in the village to locate tiles held in private collections. A hundred more tiles were identified that had been collected by local people in the 19th and 20th centuries. These new finds enlarged the established iconography and provided more precise information on how the tiles were made.[40]

Parish church

 
South side of the church with the main entrance and the bell tower

The parish church is now called "Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption" but over the centuries it has been "Notre-Dame" (1321), "Saint-Théodoric" (1504), "Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie et Saint-Théodoric" (1601), "Bienheureuse-Vierge-Marie-del'Assomption" (1626) and "Saint-Théodoric" (1707).[41]

The church probably dates from the end of the 11th century when the village was first fortified. It certainly existed in 1155 when a papal bull issued by Adrian IV confirmed that bishop of Avignon possessed "Châteauneuf Calcernier with its churches". Almost nothing survives of the original Romanesque church. It was rectangular in plan with the entrance at the western end. The square tower at the southeast corner which now serves as the bell tower was not part of the early church but formed part of the fortifications of the village. It later housed the municipal archives and in the 16th century supported a clock. The round tower at the northeast corner of the church was also part of the village fortifications but later served as a bell tower. In 1321 Pope John XXII paid for the construction of a side chapel, dedicated to Saint Martin, on the south side of the nave abutting the square tower.[42][43] A second chapel, dedicated to Saint Anne, was constructed in the 16th century near the Saint Martin chapel.[44]

At the end of the 18th century the church was in a bad state of repair and had become too small for the village. Beginning in 1783 the church was extended towards the west and the entrance moved to the south wall. New windows were also created in the south wall of the nave.[45]

In 1835 the square tower was converted into the existing bell tower. In the 19th century, before the arrival of phylloxera, the village was very prosperous. Between 1853 and 1859 it paid for a major enlargement of the church in which side aisles were created either side of the nave. The chapels of Saint-Anne and Saint-Martin were demolished to create the southern aisle. To build the northern aisle, the commune bought land and a house on the other side of the Rue Ancienne Ville and displaced the street to the north.[46]

In 1981 the church was restored and the plaster on the interior walls was removed.[46]

Château de Lhers

 
Drawing of the Château de Lhers by Étienne Martellange, 1616

The ruined castle of Lhers[c] sits on a limestone outcrop, 3.2 km (2.0 mi) west of the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape on the left bank of the Rhône.[d] Up to the 18th century there was a village of Lhers associated with this castle. It is mentioned (as Leris) for the first time in a document dated 913 in which Louis the Blind, Count of Provence, gave the castle, one (or two) churches, a port on the Rhône and the land of the parish, to Fouquier,[e] the bishop of Avignon. In 916, Bishop Fouquier gave the churches, the port and the parish to the churches of Notre-Dame and Saint-Étienne in Avignon. Neither the castle nor the income from the tolls collected from boats using the Rhône are mentioned in this document.[48]

The plan of the castle is approximately square (25 m x 23 m), with a round tower at the southeast corner and a square tower at the northwest corner. The north side of the outcrop drops away vertically so there was no need for a defensive wall. A deep well is in the northeast corner. A drawing by the Jesuit architect Étienne Martellange shows the appearance of the castle in 1616.[49] The architecture of the square tower suggests that it was built after the end of the 12th century.[50] Only the ground floor survives. The round tower is later and was probably built in the 14th century.[51] The surviving ruins therefore do not date from the 10th century when the castle is first mentioned in written records. The limestone blocks of the earlier castle were no doubt reused to construct the actual castle.[52]

 
Château de Lhers viewed from the Rhône

The Rhône was liable to violent floods and the river would change position or bifurcate, creating and destroying islands. The number and the position of the islands varied over the centuries which led to a series of boundary disputes between the communities of Lhers and Châteauneuf.[41] In the Cassini map of France, dating from the last third of the 18th century, the castle is shown sitting on an island.[53] At the time of the Revolution, the fief of Lhers included land joined to the right bank near Roquemaure, an island near the left bank separated by a small branch of the river, another island in the middle of the Rhône on which sat the castle, several gravel banks and a farm on land that was contiguous with Châteauneuf. The land of the fief was initially considered to be part of the commune of Roquemaure, but in 1820 the castle and the land were transferred to the commune of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.[41] In 1992 the castle was listed as one of the French historical monuments. It is privately owned.[54]

Almost nothing survives of the two churches mentioned in the early documents. The church of Sainte-Marie was destroyed during the Revolution. The ruins were visible until the canalization of the Rhône in the 1970s. The other church, dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian, was probably the earlier of the two. It is mentioned in a papal bull issued in 1138 by Pope Adrian IV that confirmed that the bishop of Avignon possessed the fief of Lhers. The church is mentioned again in another document from 1560.[55]

Wine

 
Grapevine with the rounded pebbles which are a feature of many of the vineyards in the commune

Although viticulture must have existed in the village well before the arrival of the popes, nothing is known about it. The Introitus et Exitus, the financial record of the Papal Treasury, shows regular purchases of small quantities of wine from the village.[56][57] At the time, wine was difficult to transport and difficult to conserve so most was drunk locally when less than a year old.[58] Wine production expanded in the 18th century with the rapid development of the wine trade. From the correspondence of the Tulle family who owned the vineyards of the La Nerthe estate, we learn that the 40 hectolitres of wine produced was exported to England, Italy, Germany and all over France. In 1923, the local wine producers led by the lawyer Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarié began a campaign to establish legal protection for the wine from the commune.[59] The delimited area and the method of wine production were awarded legal recognition in 1933. Small changes to the initial regulations were made in 1936 and 1966.[60]

The wine classified as Châteauneuf-du-Pape Appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) is produced from grapes grown in the commune of Châteauneuf-du-Pape and portions of the four adjoining communes in the Vaucluse. The vineyards cover an area of approximately 3,200 hectares. Of this total 1,659 hectares (52%) lie within the commune of Châteauneuf, 674 hectares (21.1%) within Courthézon, 391 hectares (12.3%) within Orange, 335 hectares (10.5%) within Bédarrides and remaining 129 hectares (4%) in Sorgues.[60] Unlike its northern Rhône neighbours, Châteauneuf-du-Pape AOC permits thirteen different varieties of grape in red wine but the blend must be predominantly grenache. In 2010 there were 320 producers. The total annual production is around 100,000 hectolitres (equivalent to 13 million bottles of 0.75 litre) of which 95% is red. The remainder is white: the production of rosé is not permitted under this AOC.[59]

Population

The earliest figure for the population of the village is from the census of 1344, which recorded 508 dwellings or "hearths". As there were typically 4.5 inhabitants per dwelling, this represented around 2,000 inhabitants, a very large village for the time. The figure was not surpassed until the 20th century. After 1344 there are no further records until 1500, when the population was 1,600. In the 17th century there were several epidemics of bubonic plague and by 1694 the population had dropped to 558. During the 18th century the population of the village doubled, reaching 1,471 in 1866, but when the phylloxera devastated the vineyards the population dropped by a quarter to 1,095 in 1891.[61][4] The population was 2,179 in 2012.[62]

Climate

Châteauneuf-du-Pape has a humid subtropical climate Cfa in the Köppen climate classification, with moderate rainfall year-round. July and August are the hottest months with average daily maximum temperatures of around 30 °C (86 °F). The driest month is July when the average monthly rainfall is 37 millimeters, just a little too wet for the climate to be classified as Mediterranean (Köppen Csa).[63] The village is often subject to a strong wind, the mistral, that blows from the north.

Climate data for Orange-Caritat (9 km (6 mi) north of the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, 1981–2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Average high °C (°F) 9.9
(49.8)
11.5
(52.7)
15.5
(59.9)
18.5
(65.3)
23.0
(73.4)
27.1
(80.8)
30.6
(87.1)
30.1
(86.2)
25.1
(77.2)
19.9
(67.8)
13.6
(56.5)
10.0
(50.0)
19.5
(67.1)
Average low °C (°F) 1.8
(35.2)
2.5
(36.5)
5.3
(41.5)
7.9
(46.2)
11.9
(53.4)
15.4
(59.7)
18.1
(64.6)
17.7
(63.9)
14.2
(57.6)
10.7
(51.3)
5.7
(42.3)
2.7
(36.9)
9.5
(49.1)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 52.7
(2.07)
39.1
(1.54)
43.2
(1.70)
65.8
(2.59)
65.4
(2.57)
37.9
(1.49)
36.6
(1.44)
39.0
(1.54)
97.3
(3.83)
92.7
(3.65)
75.4
(2.97)
55.8
(2.20)
700.9
(27.59)
Mean monthly sunshine hours 132.0 137.1 192.5 230.4 264.6 298.9 345.3 310.7 237.6 187.1 135.2 123.8 2,595.2
Source: infoclimat.fr[64]

Schools

There are two state schools in the commune. The nursery school, École maternelle Jean Macé, is attended by around 87 children between the ages of three and six.[65] The primary school, École primaire Albert Camus, is attended by 137 children between the ages of six and eleven.[66][67] After the age of eleven most children attend the Collège Saint Exupéry in Bédarrides.[68]

Twin towns

Châteauneuf-du-Pape is twinned with:[69]

Notes

  1. ^ In 1475 Pope Sixtus IV upgraded the bishopric into an archbishopric.[23]
  2. ^ The entry for 21 September 1317 records the purchase of 12,000 floor tiles from Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie that were of divers colours and painted with figures. (de s. Quintino pro 12000 tegulorum ad pavimentandum depictorum cum figuris et diversorum colorum).[39]
  3. ^ The name of the castle has been written in different ways. Latin documents use Leris and Lertio whereas French documents use L'airs, Lair, L'ers, l'Hers and Lhers.[47]
  4. ^ The coordinates of the Château de Lhers are 44°3′14.9″N 4°47′29.9″E / 44.054139°N 4.791639°E / 44.054139; 4.791639.
  5. ^ The name of the bishop (Fulcherius in Latin) is also written as Foulques.[47]

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Further reading

  • Rendu, Victor (1857). "Vignobles de Châteauneuf du Pape". Ampélographie Française comprenant la statistique: la description des meilleurs cépages, l'analyse chimique du sol et les procédés de culture et de vinification des principaux vignobles de la France (in French). Paris: V. Masson. pp. 101–111.

External links

  • Marie de Châteauneuf-du-Pape Official site of the town hall.
  • Fédération des syndicats des producteurs de Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The Federation of Wine Producers

châteauneuf, pape, wine, french, pronunciation, ʃatonœf, provençal, castèu, nòu, papo, commune, vaucluse, department, provence, alpes, côte, azur, region, southeastern, france, village, lies, about, kilometres, east, rhône, kilometres, north, town, avignon, 20. For the wine see Chateauneuf du Pape AOC Chateauneuf du Pape French pronunciation ʃatonœf dy pap Provencal Casteu Nou De Papo is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence Alpes Cote d Azur region in Southeastern France The village lies about 3 kilometres 1 9 mi to the east of the Rhone and 12 kilometres 7 5 mi north of the town of Avignon As of 2019 the commune had a population of 2 055 Chateauneuf du PapeCommuneA view of the village from the southeastCoat of armsLocation of Chateauneuf du PapeChateauneuf du PapeShow map of FranceChateauneuf du PapeShow map of Provence Alpes Cote d AzurCoordinates 44 03 25 N 4 49 55 E 44 0569 N 4 8319 E 44 0569 4 8319 Coordinates 44 03 25 N 4 49 55 E 44 0569 N 4 8319 E 44 0569 4 8319CountryFranceRegionProvence Alpes Cote d AzurDepartmentVaucluseArrondissementCarpentrasCantonSorguesGovernment Mayor 2020 2026 Claude Avril 1 Area125 85 km2 9 98 sq mi Population Jan 2019 2 2 055 Density79 km2 210 sq mi Time zoneUTC 01 00 CET Summer DST UTC 02 00 CEST INSEE Postal code84037 84230Elevation20 130 m 66 427 ft avg 117 m or 384 ft 1 French Land Register data which excludes lakes ponds glaciers gt 1 km2 0 386 sq mi or 247 acres and river estuaries A ruined medieval castle sits above the village and dominates the landscape to the south It was built in the 14th century for Pope John XXII the second of the popes to reside in Avignon None of the subsequent Avignon popes stayed in Chateauneuf but after the schism of 1378 the antipope Clement VII sought the security of the castle With the departure of the popes the castle passed to the archbishop of Avignon but it was too large and too expensive to maintain and was used as a source of stone for building work in the village At the time of the Revolution the buildings were sold off and only the donjon was preserved During the Second World War an attempt was made to demolish the donjon with dynamite by German soldiers but only the northern half was destroyed the southern half remained intact Almost all the cultivable land is planted with grapevines The commune is famous for the production of red wine classified as Chateauneuf du Pape Appellation d origine controlee which is produced from grapes grown in the commune of Chateauneuf du Pape and in portions of four adjoining communes Contents 1 Toponym 2 History 2 1 Early settlement 2 2 Avignon popes 3 Pope John XXII s castle 3 1 Construction 3 2 Neglect 3 3 Buildings 3 4 Tiles 4 Parish church 5 Chateau de Lhers 6 Wine 7 Population 8 Climate 9 Schools 10 Twin towns 11 Notes 12 References 13 Sources 14 Further reading 15 External linksToponym EditThe first mention of the village is in a Latin document from 1094 that uses the name Castro Novo The term castrum or castro in the 11th century was used to denote a fortified village rather than a castle castellum The current French name of Chateauneuf English New Castle is derived from this early Latin name and not from the ruined 14th century castle that towers above the village Just over a century later in 1213 the village was referred to as Castronovum Calcernarium Other early documents use Castronovo Caussornerio or Castrum Novum Casanerii The official French name became Chateauneuf Calcernier The word Calcernier comes from the presence of important lime kilns in the village Calcernarium is derived from the Latin calx for lime and cernere means sift or sieve From the 16th century the village was often referred to as Chateauneuf du Pape or Chateauneuf Calcernier dit de Pape because of the connection with Pope John XXII but it was not until 1893 that the official name was changed from Chateauneuf Calcernier to Chateauneuf du Pape 3 4 The name in the Provencal dialect of the Occitan language that was spoken in the village is Casteu Nou De Papo 5 History EditEarly settlement Edit Saint Theodoric The earliest settlement is believed to have been near the Chapel Saint Theodoric to the east of the current village center This Romanesque chapel was erected by the monks of the abbey of Saint Theodoric in Avignon at the end of the 10th or the beginning of the 11th century and is the oldest building in the commune 6 Although the village lay within the Comtat Venaissin it was one of the fiefs of the bishop of Avignon and thus had a special status The bishop of Avignon also held the fiefs of Gigognan and Bedarrides 7 In the second half of the 11th century a fortified village was built higher up the hill by the Viscount Rostaing Beranger in the fiefdom of his brother the bishop of Avignon The wall of the present church building formed part of the fortification and the arrowslits in the clock tower are still visible Two towers and other vestiges of these early fortifications have survived 8 The new village would have contained a suitable fortified residence for the bishop which is believed to have been located between the church and the site of the later castle 9 In 1238 the bishop of Avignon obtained an important privilege from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II r 1195 1250 Salt that was shipped on the Rhone and landed at Chateauneuf would not be subject to tax As a result the trade in salt became a considerable source of revenue for the village 10 Avignon popes Edit Bertrand de Got archbishop of Bordeaux was elected pope in 1305 and took the name of Clement V He transferred the papacy to Avignon in 1309 The register of pontifical letters reveals that Clement V visited Chateauneuf on several occasions sometimes for long periods 11 While in the village he would have been a guest at the bishop s residence 12 In 1312 he stayed in the village from 6 22 November In 1313 he returned from 9 May to 1 July and again from 19 October to 4 December The following year 1314 he was in Chateauneuf from 24 30 March He died in the castle of Roquemaure on the opposite bank of the Rhone on 7 April 1314 11 The next pope Jacques Dueze was elected in 1316 and took the name John XXII After his coronation in Lyon on 5 September 1316 he travelled down the Rhone and spent 10 days in Chateauneuf before he arrived in Avignon He had served as the bishop of Avignon between 1310 and 1313 and while bishop had also been the seigneur of Chateauneuf du Pape He had arranged for his nephew Jacques de Via to succeed him as bishop But on the death of his nephew in 1317 he chose not to appoint a successor so during his papacy the village belonged directly to the pope John XXII initiated a large number of building projects including additions to the Palais des Papes in Avignon as well as defensive castles at Barbentane Bedarrides Noves and Sorgues In 1317 work began on the construction of the castle in Chateauneuf du Pape John XXII derived little benefit from the new castle which was not completed until 1333 a year before his death The ruins of the castle are now a prominent feature of the village 13 There is no record of the next Avignon pope Benedict XII 1334 1342 having ever stayed in this castle but in 1335 he granted the village the right to have a ship mill on the Rhone a market every Tuesday and two fairs during the year He did not keep the post of bishop of Avignon and appointed a new bishop to replace himself in 1336 14 None of the following four popes stayed in Chateauneuf du Pape either but after the schism of the Catholic Church in 1378 the Avignon antipope Clement VII frequently sought the security of the castle and from 1385 to 1387 had improvements carried out on the building 15 In the 14th century the presence of the pope in Avignon and construction of the castle brought considerable prosperity to the village The economy was based on agriculture but the villagers also possessed lime kilns and the local merchants supplied roof tiles for the Palais des Papes in Avignon and floor tiles for the castle being built in Barbentane 16 The village outgrew the mid 11th century defensive walls and houses began to be built outside In 1381 the village obtained permission to impose a local tax to fund the construction of a new system of fortifications around the village These defensive towers have all disappeared except for the Portalet tower in the Rue des Papes but parts of the walls remain 17 Pope John XXII s castle Edit Surviving south wall of the donjon Construction Edit In 1317 one year after his election Pope John XXII ordered the construction of a castle at the top of the hill above the village 18 19 Some of the stone may have been from a local quarry but most was probably imported from Courthezon The mortar and the roof tiles would have been manufactured in the village To provide water between August 1318 and July 1319 a large deep well was dug in the courtyard to the northeast of the donjon 20 According to the papal accounts much of the work was completed by 1322 but in 1332 there is an entry for the purchase of timber from Liguria for four towers 20 21 The castle not only had a defensive role but was also designed to serve as a summer residence There was a garden on the west side and a 10 hectare park to the north enclosed by high walls in which vines olive trees and fruit trees were cultivated 20 Neglect Edit With the departure of the popes the castle became part of the fief of the bishop and after 1475 the archbishop of Avignon but it was much too big and expensive for them to maintain 22 a The captain in charge of the village s defences lived in the castle but there was no permanent garrison and most of the buildings were allowed to deteriorate In the 16th century Huguenots occupied Chateauneuf for several months during the Wars of Religion In March 1563 they pillaged the village and set fire to the church and parts of the castle including the apartments of the pope The extent of the damage is not known 24 During the 17th century and perhaps earlier the ruined buildings of the castle were used as a source of stone for the construction of houses in the village The community also used the stone to repair the walls around the village 18 to 20 cartloads in 1717 and to repair the church in 1781 25 At the time of the Revolution the castle had not been inhabited for a number of years The buildings and the adjoining parkland were put up for sale and bought in July 1797 by Jean Baptiste Establet a farmer in the village The following year these were resold in 33 equal parts By 1848 most of the castle had been destroyed by the purchasers 26 The mayor forbade the destruction of the donjon and in May 1892 the castle was listed as one of the French Historical Monuments 26 27 During the Second World War the donjon was used as an observation post by German soldiers In August 1944 just before their departure they attempted to demolish the building with dynamite but by chance only the northern half of the tower was destroyed leaving the southern half as it appears today 28 In the 1960s the municipality constructed a meeting hall within the ancient ruined cellar of the castle 28 Buildings Edit Drawing from the Album Laincel that dates from the second half of the 17th century There are no surviving plans of the castle from the 14th century The earliest depiction is an anonymous drawing from the Album Laincel in the collection of the Musee Calvet in Avignon that dates from the second half of the 17th century By this time the castle had not been properly maintained for three centuries and the drawing is probably an interpretation by the artist of the surviving structure Another source of information is a plan of the village from the 1813 cadastre which indicates the position of some of the buildings but not their original function 29 The appearance of the donjon before its destruction in 1944 is known from old photographs 30 31 The main entrance to the castle was just above the village and consisted of two successive gatehouses The first was on the path up from the church and the second was just to the east of the donjon The vulnerable north side of the castle would have been protected by a deep ditch The northern entrance was defended by a tower and was probably accessed by a drawbridge Very little is known about the buildings of the castle other than the ruined donjon and papal apartments The castle contained a chapel dedicated to Saint Catherine but the location is uncertain 29 The donjon had a ground floor with a low barrel vaulted ceiling and two upper levels with rib vaulted ceilings The large roof terrace was surrounded by a machicolated battlement The floors were connected by a stone staircase built into the thickness of the western wall 32 The entrance to the tower on the east side was protected by an unusually tall breteche A similar breteche survives above the entrance to the Tour Philippe le Bel in Villeneuve les Avignon 33 The two large ruined walls to the west of the donjon formed part of a rectangular building reserved for the pope and his close associates The large ground floor room was 26 m in length 9 m in width and 5 5 m in height The ceiling was supported by wooden beams with three central columns The floor was paved with large stone slabs This room together with a smaller room to the north were probably used for storage On the first floor was the great hall of the castle in which banquets would have been held It had the same dimensions as the ground floor storeroom but with a higher ceiling 6 5 m It was lit by four large rectangular windows providing views over the Rhone valley There were also three smaller windows to increase the ventilation two facing west and one facing south The walls were decorated with frescoes and a band of large red bistre and black roses A door at the north end of the hall opened into a well lit smaller room with a chimney The main entrance to the hall was on the east side near the donjon and close to the modern steps The top floor of the building was lit by three large windows provided with benches and three smaller rectangular windows The irregular pattern of the windows suggests that there were several rooms perhaps apartments for the pope The tiled roof with two equal slopes was entirely protected by the large outer walls 34 Tiles Edit An archaeological excavation carried out in 1960 in the basement of the ruined rectangular building recovered a number of small glazed terracotta floor tiles They date from the first half of the 14th century and would have originally decorated the main hall on the first floor The tiles are square 125 130 mm on a side and 20 mm in thickness They are decorated in a Hispano Moresque style which is more usually associated with dishes and jugs Many have a plain coloured glaze either green yellow or occasionally black but some have designs in brown or green on a white tin glazed background 35 36 The tiles are similar to those discovered in 1963 on the floor of Pope Benedict XII s studium in the Palais des Papes The room was built between 1334 and 1342 and is therefore a little later The Chateuneuf tiles are slightly larger and often have animal designs They were almost certainly manufactured in Saint Quentin la Poterie The papal accounts record large purchases of tiles in 1317 37 38 b In 1994 a small archaeological excavation was carried out on the terrace at the foot of the southern facade of the papal quarters Altogether fifty tiles were recovered that had been scattered in the modern landfill At the same time a survey was conducted in the village to locate tiles held in private collections A hundred more tiles were identified that had been collected by local people in the 19th and 20th centuries These new finds enlarged the established iconography and provided more precise information on how the tiles were made 40 Parish church Edit South side of the church with the main entrance and the bell tower The parish church is now called Notre Dame de l Assomption but over the centuries it has been Notre Dame 1321 Saint Theodoric 1504 Bienheureuse Vierge Marie et Saint Theodoric 1601 Bienheureuse Vierge Marie del Assomption 1626 and Saint Theodoric 1707 41 The church probably dates from the end of the 11th century when the village was first fortified It certainly existed in 1155 when a papal bull issued by Adrian IV confirmed that bishop of Avignon possessed Chateauneuf Calcernier with its churches Almost nothing survives of the original Romanesque church It was rectangular in plan with the entrance at the western end The square tower at the southeast corner which now serves as the bell tower was not part of the early church but formed part of the fortifications of the village It later housed the municipal archives and in the 16th century supported a clock The round tower at the northeast corner of the church was also part of the village fortifications but later served as a bell tower In 1321 Pope John XXII paid for the construction of a side chapel dedicated to Saint Martin on the south side of the nave abutting the square tower 42 43 A second chapel dedicated to Saint Anne was constructed in the 16th century near the Saint Martin chapel 44 At the end of the 18th century the church was in a bad state of repair and had become too small for the village Beginning in 1783 the church was extended towards the west and the entrance moved to the south wall New windows were also created in the south wall of the nave 45 In 1835 the square tower was converted into the existing bell tower In the 19th century before the arrival of phylloxera the village was very prosperous Between 1853 and 1859 it paid for a major enlargement of the church in which side aisles were created either side of the nave The chapels of Saint Anne and Saint Martin were demolished to create the southern aisle To build the northern aisle the commune bought land and a house on the other side of the Rue Ancienne Ville and displaced the street to the north 46 In 1981 the church was restored and the plaster on the interior walls was removed 46 Chateau de Lhers Edit Drawing of the Chateau de Lhers by Etienne Martellange 1616 The ruined castle of Lhers c sits on a limestone outcrop 3 2 km 2 0 mi west of the village of Chateauneuf du Pape on the left bank of the Rhone d Up to the 18th century there was a village of Lhers associated with this castle It is mentioned as Leris for the first time in a document dated 913 in which Louis the Blind Count of Provence gave the castle one or two churches a port on the Rhone and the land of the parish to Fouquier e the bishop of Avignon In 916 Bishop Fouquier gave the churches the port and the parish to the churches of Notre Dame and Saint Etienne in Avignon Neither the castle nor the income from the tolls collected from boats using the Rhone are mentioned in this document 48 The plan of the castle is approximately square 25 m x 23 m with a round tower at the southeast corner and a square tower at the northwest corner The north side of the outcrop drops away vertically so there was no need for a defensive wall A deep well is in the northeast corner A drawing by the Jesuit architect Etienne Martellange shows the appearance of the castle in 1616 49 The architecture of the square tower suggests that it was built after the end of the 12th century 50 Only the ground floor survives The round tower is later and was probably built in the 14th century 51 The surviving ruins therefore do not date from the 10th century when the castle is first mentioned in written records The limestone blocks of the earlier castle were no doubt reused to construct the actual castle 52 Chateau de Lhers viewed from the Rhone The Rhone was liable to violent floods and the river would change position or bifurcate creating and destroying islands The number and the position of the islands varied over the centuries which led to a series of boundary disputes between the communities of Lhers and Chateauneuf 41 In the Cassini map of France dating from the last third of the 18th century the castle is shown sitting on an island 53 At the time of the Revolution the fief of Lhers included land joined to the right bank near Roquemaure an island near the left bank separated by a small branch of the river another island in the middle of the Rhone on which sat the castle several gravel banks and a farm on land that was contiguous with Chateauneuf The land of the fief was initially considered to be part of the commune of Roquemaure but in 1820 the castle and the land were transferred to the commune of Chateauneuf du Pape 41 In 1992 the castle was listed as one of the French historical monuments It is privately owned 54 Almost nothing survives of the two churches mentioned in the early documents The church of Sainte Marie was destroyed during the Revolution The ruins were visible until the canalization of the Rhone in the 1970s The other church dedicated to the Saints Cosmas and Damian was probably the earlier of the two It is mentioned in a papal bull issued in 1138 by Pope Adrian IV that confirmed that the bishop of Avignon possessed the fief of Lhers The church is mentioned again in another document from 1560 55 Wine Edit Grapevine with the rounded pebbles which are a feature of many of the vineyards in the commune Main article Chateauneuf du Pape AOC Although viticulture must have existed in the village well before the arrival of the popes nothing is known about it The Introitus et Exitus the financial record of the Papal Treasury shows regular purchases of small quantities of wine from the village 56 57 At the time wine was difficult to transport and difficult to conserve so most was drunk locally when less than a year old 58 Wine production expanded in the 18th century with the rapid development of the wine trade From the correspondence of the Tulle family who owned the vineyards of the La Nerthe estate we learn that the 40 hectolitres of wine produced was exported to England Italy Germany and all over France In 1923 the local wine producers led by the lawyer Pierre Le Roy de Boiseaumarie began a campaign to establish legal protection for the wine from the commune 59 The delimited area and the method of wine production were awarded legal recognition in 1933 Small changes to the initial regulations were made in 1936 and 1966 60 The wine classified as Chateauneuf du Pape Appellation d origine controlee AOC is produced from grapes grown in the commune of Chateauneuf du Pape and portions of the four adjoining communes in the Vaucluse The vineyards cover an area of approximately 3 200 hectares Of this total 1 659 hectares 52 lie within the commune of Chateauneuf 674 hectares 21 1 within Courthezon 391 hectares 12 3 within Orange 335 hectares 10 5 within Bedarrides and remaining 129 hectares 4 in Sorgues 60 Unlike its northern Rhone neighbours Chateauneuf du Pape AOC permits thirteen different varieties of grape in red wine but the blend must be predominantly grenache In 2010 there were 320 producers The total annual production is around 100 000 hectolitres equivalent to 13 million bottles of 0 75 litre of which 95 is red The remainder is white the production of rose is not permitted under this AOC 59 Population EditThe earliest figure for the population of the village is from the census of 1344 which recorded 508 dwellings or hearths As there were typically 4 5 inhabitants per dwelling this represented around 2 000 inhabitants a very large village for the time The figure was not surpassed until the 20th century After 1344 there are no further records until 1500 when the population was 1 600 In the 17th century there were several epidemics of bubonic plague and by 1694 the population had dropped to 558 During the 18th century the population of the village doubled reaching 1 471 in 1866 but when the phylloxera devastated the vineyards the population dropped by a quarter to 1 095 in 1891 61 4 The population was 2 179 in 2012 62 Climate EditChateauneuf du Pape has a humid subtropical climate Cfa in the Koppen climate classification with moderate rainfall year round July and August are the hottest months with average daily maximum temperatures of around 30 C 86 F The driest month is July when the average monthly rainfall is 37 millimeters just a little too wet for the climate to be classified as Mediterranean Koppen Csa 63 The village is often subject to a strong wind the mistral that blows from the north Climate data for Orange Caritat 9 km 6 mi north of the village of Chateauneuf du Pape 1981 2010 Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearAverage high C F 9 9 49 8 11 5 52 7 15 5 59 9 18 5 65 3 23 0 73 4 27 1 80 8 30 6 87 1 30 1 86 2 25 1 77 2 19 9 67 8 13 6 56 5 10 0 50 0 19 5 67 1 Average low C F 1 8 35 2 2 5 36 5 5 3 41 5 7 9 46 2 11 9 53 4 15 4 59 7 18 1 64 6 17 7 63 9 14 2 57 6 10 7 51 3 5 7 42 3 2 7 36 9 9 5 49 1 Average precipitation mm inches 52 7 2 07 39 1 1 54 43 2 1 70 65 8 2 59 65 4 2 57 37 9 1 49 36 6 1 44 39 0 1 54 97 3 3 83 92 7 3 65 75 4 2 97 55 8 2 20 700 9 27 59 Mean monthly sunshine hours 132 0 137 1 192 5 230 4 264 6 298 9 345 3 310 7 237 6 187 1 135 2 123 8 2 595 2Source infoclimat fr 64 Schools EditThere are two state schools in the commune The nursery school Ecole maternelle Jean Mace is attended by around 87 children between the ages of three and six 65 The primary school Ecole primaire Albert Camus is attended by 137 children between the ages of six and eleven 66 67 After the age of eleven most children attend the College Saint Exupery in Bedarrides 68 Twin towns EditChateauneuf du Pape is twinned with 69 Castel Gandolfo Italy Auggen GermanyNotes Edit In 1475 Pope Sixtus IV upgraded the bishopric into an archbishopric 23 The entry for 21 September 1317 records the purchase of 12 000 floor tiles from Saint Quentin la Poterie that were of divers colours and painted with figures de s Quintino pro 12000 tegulorum ad pavimentandum depictorum cum figuris et diversorum colorum 39 The name of the castle has been written in different ways Latin documents use Leris and Lertio whereas French documents use L airs Lair L ers l Hers and Lhers 47 The coordinates of the Chateau de Lhers are 44 3 14 9 N 4 47 29 9 E 44 054139 N 4 791639 E 44 054139 4 791639 The name of the bishop Fulcherius in Latin is also written as Foulques 47 References Edit Repertoire national des elus les maires in French data gouv fr Plateforme ouverte des donnees publiques francaises 13 September 2022 Populations legales 2019 The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies 29 December 2021 Portes 1993 pp 15 21 23 a b Des villages de Cassini aux communes d aujourd hui Commune data sheet Chateauneuf du Pape EHESS in French Mistral 1879 p 492 Portes 1993 pp 17 285 286 Portes 1993 p 21 Portes 1993 p 251 Portes 1993 p 253 Portes 1993 pp 26 27 a b Portes 1993 p 27 Portes 1993 p 293 Portes 1993 pp 28 29 Portes 1993 pp 29 30 Portes 1993 p 30 Portes 1993 pp 31 34 Portes 1993 pp 265 269 Portes 1993 pp 253 254 Schafer 1911 pp 274 276 a b c Portes 1993 p 254 Schafer 1911 p 311 Portes 1993 p 259 Portes 1993 p 42 Portes 1993 pp 42 43 259 Portes 1993 p 363 a b Portes 1993 p 263 Base Merimee Chateau Ministere francais de la Culture in French a b Portes 1993 p 265 a b Portes 1993 p 255 Portes 1993 p 260 Le Boyer Noel photographer 2633 Chateauneuf du Pape Ministere de la culture et de la communication The image has been flipped horizontally Portes 1993 pp 255 256 Maigret 2002 p 13 Portes 1993 pp 257 259 Portes 1993 p 257 Gagniere amp Granier 1973 1974 pp 34 37 Gagniere amp Granier 1973 1974 pp 56 60 Schafer 1911 pp 280 281 Schafer 1911 p 280 Carru Dominique 29 April 2010 Petits carres d histoire XIVe siecle Nouvelles collectes a Chateauneuf du Pape in French Domain de Beaurenard Retrieved 28 July 2014 a b c Portes 1993 p 277 Portes 1993 pp 277 279 Schafer 1911 pp 739 810 813 Portes 1993 p 279 Portes 1993 pp 279 281 a b Portes 1993 pp 281 283 a b Portes 1993 p 269 Portes 1993 pp 269 271 Portes 1993 p 271 Perrot amp Garnier 1972 p 73 Perrot amp Garnier 1972 p 74 Portes 1993 pp 269 277 France 1750 Cassini map David Rumsey Historical Map Collection Retrieved 9 February 2021 Base Merimee Chateau de l Hers ou de l Airs ruines Ministere francais de la Culture in French Portes 1993 pp 271 272 Portes 1993 p 235 Schafer 1914 pp 711 766 796 Portes 1993 pp 235 236 a b Cahier des charges de l appellation d origine controlee CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE homologue par le decret n 2011 1567 du 16 novembre 2011 JORF du 19 novembre 2011 PDF Republique Francaise Ministere de l agriculture de l agroalementaire et de la foret 2011 pp 362 372 pages unnumbered Retrieved 24 June 2014 a b Portes 1993 p 243 Portes 1993 pp 195 196 Commune de Chateauneuf du Pape 84037 Dossier complet in French Institut national de la statistique et des etudes economique Retrieved 2 March 2016 Peel M C Finlayson B L McMahon T A 2007 Updated world map of the Koppen Geiger climate classification Hydrol Earth Syst Sci 11 5 1633 1644 Bibcode 2007HESS 11 1633P doi 10 5194 hess 11 1633 2007 ISSN 1027 5606 Normales et records pour la periode 1981 2010 a Orange Caritat infoclimat Retrieved 14 July 2014 Ecole maternelle publique Jean Mace Ministere de l education nationale Retrieved 23 July 2014 Ecole primaire publique Albert Camus Ministere de l education nationale Retrieved 24 July 2014 Enseignement primaire in French Marie de Chateauneuf du Pape Retrieved 23 July 2014 Enseignement secondaire in French Marie de Chateauneuf du Pape Retrieved 23 July 2014 Jumelages in French Marie de Chateauneuf du Pape Retrieved 24 June 2014 Sources EditGagniere Sylvain Granier J 1973 1974 Les carrelages du Chateau de Jean XXII a Chateauneuf du Pape Memoire de l Academie de Vaucluse in French 7 29 62 Maigret Chantal 2002 La tour Philippe le Bel 1303 2003 700 ans d histoire Etudes Vauclusiennes in French 68 5 22 Mistral Frederic 1879 Lou Tresor dou Felibrige ou Dictionnaire provencal francais in French and Occitan Vol 1 A F Aix en Provence J Remondet Aubin Perrot R Garnier J 1972 Recherches historiques et archeologiques sur le chateau de Lhers commune de Chateauneuf du Pape Vaucluse Memoire de l Academie de Vaucluse in French 6 43 123 Portes Jean Claude 1993 Chateauneuf du Pape Memoire d un village in French Avignon Alain Barthelemy ISBN 978 2 87923 031 3 Schafer Karl Heinrich 1911 Die Ausgaben der Apostolischen Kammer unter Johann XXII Nebst den Jahresbilanzen von 1316 1375 in German and Latin Paderborn Germany F Schoningh Schafer Karl Heinrich ed 1914 Die ausgaben der Apostolischen kammer unter Benedikt XII Klemens VI und Innocenz VI 1335 1362 in German and Latin Paderborn Germany F Schoningh OL 6653164M Further reading EditRendu Victor 1857 Vignobles de Chateauneuf du Pape Ampelographie Francaise comprenant la statistique la description des meilleurs cepages l analyse chimique du sol et les procedes de culture et de vinification des principaux vignobles de la France in French Paris V Masson pp 101 111 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chateauneuf du Pape Marie de Chateauneuf du Pape Official site of the town hall Federation des syndicats des producteurs de Chateauneuf du Pape The Federation of Wine 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