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This Avignon tramcar has just turned from reservation alongside the Avenue de la Croix Rouge to reservation alongside the Avenue du Roi Soleil.
Croix Rouge, "Red Cross," may refer to the "section du Bonnet-Rouge," also known as the "section de la Croix-Rouge;" "sections" were subdivisions of Paris during the Révolution. Croix Rouge may also refer to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and its institutions.
Roi Soleil, "Sun King," refers to Louis XIV of France (1638-1715), whose reign of more than 72 years is described as "the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history."
(A well-known quotation attributed to Louis XIV - "L'état, c'est moi;" "I am the state" - was dismissed as apocryphal within a few decades after it was first reported.)
2021 August 13.