Avignon and the small enclave to the east (Comtat Venaissin) remained part of the Papal States until 1791 when, under pressure from French Revolutionaries, they were absorbed by the short-lived revolutionary Kingdom of France (1791–92), which, in turn, was abolished in favor of the French First Republic the following year.P. M. Jones, Reform and Revolution in France: The Politics of Transition, 1774–1791, (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 13.
Avignon an:d the small enclave to the east (Comta?t Venaissin) remained part of the Papal States until 1791 when, under pressure from French Revolutionaries, they were abso?rbed by the short-lived revolutionary Kingdom of France (1791–92), which, in turn, was abolished in favor of the French First Republic the following year.P. M. Jones, Reform and Revolution in France: The Politics of Transition, 1774–1791, (Cambridge University Press, 1995), 13.