Nice
Nice (pronounced ) (Provencal: Nica or Nissa; Italian: Nizza) is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille and Genoa, with 933,080 inhabitants in the metropolitan area at the 1999 census. The city is a major tourist center and a leading resort on the French Riviera (Cote d'Azur).
Miscellaneous
Births
Nice was the birthplace of:
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- Andre Massena (1758-1817), Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling, soldier in the armies of Napoleon and a Marshal of France
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1885), nationalist revolutionary and Italy's most famous soldier of the Risorgimento
- Melchior de Vogue (1848-1910), author
- Albert Calmette (1863-1933), physician, bacteriologist and immunologist
- Marcel Journet (1867-1933), tenor
- Robert Caesar Childers (1838-1876), British Orientalist scholar
- Rene Dreyfus (1905-1993), Grand Prix driver
- Jean Behra (1921-1959), Formula One driver
- Simone Veil (born 1927), lawyer and politician
- Yves Klein (1928-1962), artist
- Christian Wolff (born 1934), American composer of experimental classical music
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