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“Am I feeling well?” Al is writing in response to a friend’s inquiry. “Am I feeling well, not necessarily”. I am even consulting doctors which is contrary to my custom and also to my principle. In the study where he composed those words, Al collapsed two day later. He was alone at the time and nobody knows how long it …
This is the story of a beautiful commoner and a handsome prince. The young woman was renown and glamorous, but without royal blood. The handsome prince when he first saw her was spellbound. She was a dazzling blond in her twenties and had the most eligible bachelors around the world seeking her hand. The prince, by contrast was a quiet …
Robert Levitt wrote an article in Nice Matin blog about the symbols that can be found in the old town of Nice. The initial entry of Jews into Nice is subject to speculation, but the first documents related to the establishment of a Jewish Ghetto in Nice, called judaysium, are dated in the year 1430. We don’t know whether the Ghetto …
You might know the Vladimir Lenin was a resident in Nice, living here prior to the Russian revolution in 1917, but do you know the fascinating story of his childhood? There were two men, Ilya and Theodore, both educators in a small Russian town, both with fathers of April born sons. Theodore boy was a preschooler, Ilya’s was a teenager …
This unusual villa was built by the architect Georges Massa. It was one of a series of homes which were designed by Massa in the Vallauris region. Massa was the architect of a recent Villa in Golfe Juan which Via Nissa studied in completing a historical report. Our historical research involves archival and historical studies on properties, those who built …
Have you visited the Jewish cemetery in Nice? It is very rare that an ancient cemetery can be found in the center of a city. One of the most moving tombstone is of a small boy who just before dying asked his parents for a train, plane, car and pine tree which they never had the opportunity to give to …
Many of the locals know about Sainte Réparate, whom the Cathedral in Nice is named after. She was a teenage Palestinian girl arrested by the Romans for being Christian. The story goes that the Romans tried to kill her by burning her, but rains came which put out the fire. Then they made her drink boiling water and finally chopped …
When we think of Casino magnates, we might think of Sheldon Adelson, Steve Wynn or Sol Kerzner, yet the first true casino magnate was likely the American Frank Jay Gould, who built his casinos in Juans-les-Pins and Nice among other places. France had declared gambling legal in 1907 and Gould joined in the excitement to compete with Monte Carlo. He …
This is the former home of the Klarsfelds (the most successful Nazi hunters in history) which they occupied in Nice on the 30th of September 1943 when the Gestapo, just after midnight, placed its light projectors against the building’s facade and began to systematically search the apartments for Jews they knew were inside. The Germans came to take them away. …
They called them the “Lost Generation”, a term credited to Gertrude Stein who credits it to her car mechanic. This was the generation who came of age during WWI. It was particularly used for a group of artists and writers, particularly American expatriates, who were living in France during the 1920s. Americans have been living in Europe for a long …
