Carpentras
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Carpentras is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
The Hôtel de Ville
The Carpentras Stele, found in the town in 1704, was the first Northwest Semitic (i.e. Canaanite or Aramaic) inscription published anywhere in modern times.
Hôtel-Dieu in Carpentras
Truffle market in Carpentras
Joseph Duplessis
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Joseph-Siffred Duplessis was a French painter known for the clarity and immediacy of his portraits.
Carpentras
…Louis Archimbaud (1705–1789), composer and organist of Carpentras Cathedral Joseph Duplessis (1725–1802), portraitist Jean-Pierre-Xavier Bidauld (1743–1813), painter…
Self-portrait of Duplessis, 1801
Duplessis' Benjamin Franklin on the U.S. hundred dollar bill
Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, 1774
Portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck, 1775