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Leave the superlatives to the sportsmen. Art isn't about coming first

Last weekend a delegation from Edinburgh – with your correspondent tagging along – arrived at the Avignon Festival in France.

Some of those present were shopping, but most were selling. Selling Edinburgh as a venue that values the best in French culture, and its festivals as the sort of events to which you might consider taking your talent, your show and your ticket-buying cash.

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