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8 unusual facts about Antibes


Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble

Live In Antibes is a live album by Archie Shepp and the Full Moon Ensemble recorded at the Juan les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes, France, on July 18, 1970.

Elsie Ferguson

Following her final marriage at age 51, she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.

Florence Norman

Florence Priscilla, Lady Norman, CBE (born Florence Priscilla McLaren) (1881 – 1 March 1964, Antibes) was an English socialite and activist.

Harold Ambellan

After living several years in Montparnasse, one of the principal artistic communities of Paris, Ambellan decided to settle in the Greek-Roman enclave town of Antibes on the Côte d'Azur.

Joachim Splichal

In his early twenties he moved to France to start his culinary training, working as a saucier at La Bonne Auberge, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Antibes in southeastern France.

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (b. 1854, Salford, England, UK – died 4 January 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman.

Marcel Maupi

Marcel Maupi, stage name of Marcel Louis Alexandre Barberin, (6 November 1881, Marseille – 4 January 1949, Antibes) was a French actor.

Mary Roscoe

In 2000 she formed Roscoe Productions - their inaugural production Hell Is Other People premiered that year at the Red Pear Theatre in Antibes.


1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins

1969 Miles Festiva De Juan Pins is a live album by Miles Davis recorded in La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France, as an ORTF radio broadcast.

Andrey Yuryevich Tatarinov

December 4 after the polls closed on election to the State Duma art community organized on the Blue Bridge Saint Isaac's Square street theater performance "Antibes", based on the novel "The Possessed" by Dostoyevsky and supported by Sergei Bugaev Afrika and the Faculty of Arts of Saint Petersburg State University (Dean — Valery Gergiev).

Élisée Maclet

He painted in Orange, Vaison-La Romaine, La Ciotat, Cassis, Golfe Juan, Antibes, Cagnes, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Ville-Franche, Nice, Menton, San Remo, sending back to Von Frey glowing landscapes and glorious floral still lifes.

Luc-Arthur Vebobe

He starts his basketball debuts with the Youth team (Espoirs) of Antibes (1998–1999) before going to USA in Junior Colleges (Seward County JC, Kansas & Foothill College, California) until 2001.

Marianne Greenwood

She then moved to Switzerland and the hotel school in Lausanne, and subsequently moved to Antibes where she became the "in-house photographer" for the Musée Picasso, photographing Picasso and his family and visitors such as Matisse, Chagall, Miró, and Léger.

Robert Falcucci

In the 1930s, he illustrated the program for the Monte Carlo Rally (1931) and a poster PLM Juan les Pins-Antibes (1937).

Solange Bertrand

Her work is today in public collections (Museums of Metz, Nancy, Picasso Museum in Antibes, Chéret Museum in Nice, etc...), as well as many private collections.

Thomas Bloch

Among other awards, he has won: the Classical Music Award 200 given by European critics in Cannes Midem, Victoires de la Musique and Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros, four times best soundtrack during the World subaquatic Movies Festival in Antibes, The Choice of Gramophon, Best of the Year 2001 in Audiophile, and Choc in Le Monde de la Musique for his interpretation of the Turangalîla-Symphonie by Messiaen.

Up for It

It was recorded at an outdoor venue at the Festival de Jazz d'Antibes in Juan-les-Pins, France, on July 16, 2002 and released in 2003 on the ECM label.


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