Le vray pourtraict de la ville d'avignon
a woodcut print showing the town of avignon by françois de belleforest from volume 1 of la cosmographie universelle de tout le monde which was published in paris in 1575 by both michel sonnius and by nicholas chesneau. La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde is a greatly expanded french version of sebastian münster's cosmographia from 1544. A scan of la cosmographie universelle de tout le monde is available from google here. Belleforest's map is on page 347
a scan is also available from the internet archive here. Date: 1575.
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