Quotes About Rhone

The convergence of the Rhone and Saone. Paul Bocuse. The birthplace of cinema. Chateauneuf-du-Pape just a few miles down the road. It does not get much better than Lyon.

On the centre of the lake, cooled by the piercing current of the Rhône, lay the true centre of the Western World. Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.

His successors Benedict XII and Clement VI built in stages the great papal palace at Avignon on a rock overlooking the Rhône, a huge and inharmonious mass of roofs and towers without coherent design.

Pas...de...lieu...Rhône...que...nous

The Danube, first recorded as the Danuvius, was named after the Celtic goddess Danu, whose name means "divine waters". The Rhône, first recorded as Rhodanus, also incorporates the name of the goddess prefixed by the Celtic ro, or "great". The Rhine, originally recorded as Rhenus, is a Celtic word for "sea way".