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