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Grand Tinel
also known as hall, barrel-vaulted room
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The Grand Tinel was a great barrel-vaulted hall in Avignon, its ceiling draped in a cloth of gloaming blue with uniform gold stars. It was the site of the Feast of the Warriors of Our Lord, where Pope Clement VI announced a crusade to Jerusalem before an assembly of knights, kings, and cardinals.
The Grand Tinel was the great, barrel-vaulted hall in Avignon where Pope Clement VI held his lavish feasts. It was the site of the Feast of the Warriors of Our Lord and a later, extravagant banquet featuring a grove of golden trees for entertainment.
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- appearance: A great, barrel-vaulted room with many torches and candles, a canopy of crushed velvet the color of a shadow on wine over the pope's throne, and a cloth of gloaming blue with uniform gold stars covering the ceiling · revealed ch.30
- feast: Had swans with necks twisted together floating amid armadas of game hens and quail, blue-plated 'waters' of crabs and prawns and fish, repeated every two yards · revealed ch.31
Events
- Hosted the Feast of the Warriors of Our Lord, filled with knights, minor kings, and cardinals · revealed ch.30
- Hosted a feast with every creature that flew, swam, or walked on trestle tables · revealed ch.31
- Had half its torches extinguished before the grove of golden trees entertainment · revealed ch.31
- Saw servants wheel out trees with gold leaves and golden and silver fruits, with tapestried couches placed in nooks · revealed ch.31
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