"Dying hoary heads possess the souls of sibyls." Clement V.departed first.

In a vision he saw his palace in flames.
"From that moment," says Baluze, "he became sad and lasted but a short time." Seven months later it was Philippe's turn.

Some say that he was killed while bunting, overthrown by a wild boar.

Dante is among their number.
"He," said he, "who was seen near the Seine falsifying the coin of the realm shall die by the tusk of a boar." But Guillaume de Nangis makes the royal counterfeiter die of a death quite otherwise providential.
"Undermined by a malady unknown to the physicians, Philippe expired," said he, "to the great astonishment of everybody, without either his pulse or his urine revealing the cause of his malady or the imminence of the danger." The King of Debauchery, the King of Uproar, Louis X., called the Hutin, succeeded his father, Philippe le Bel; John XXII.

to Clement V.
Avignon then became in truth a second Rome.