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15 unusual facts about Vence


Angelo Ravagli

In 1935, von Richthofen sent Ravagli to Vence, where Lawrence had spent the last weeks of his life in the Ad Astra Sanatorium, to have Lawrence's body exhumed and cremated and his ashes brought back to the ranch.

Antoine Godeau

By a Bull of Pope Innocent X he was empowered to unite the Dioceses of Grasse and Vence under his administration, but seeing the dissatisfaction of the clergy of the latter diocese, he relinquished the former and established himself at Vence.

Antoine Godeau (b. at Dreux, 1605; d. at Vence, 21 April 1672) was a French bishop, poet and exegete.

Arboretum de Guignicourt-sur-Vence

The Arboretum de Guignicourt-sur-Vence, also known as the Arboretum Victor Cayasse, is an arboretum located in Guignicourt-sur-Vence, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France.

Bob Willoughby

Robert Hanley "Bob" Willoughby (June 30, 1927, Los Angeles, California – 18 December 2009, Vence, France) was an American photographer.

Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence

The Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence (Chapel of the Rosary), often referred to as the Matisse Chapel or the Vence Chapel, is a small chapel built for Dominican sisters in the town of Vence on the French Riviera.

Christopher J. Monckton

A further scholarship in literature and the fine arts took him to a cultural foundation at Vence in France.

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.

Fred Nall Hollis

Located on a three-hectare (seven and one-half-acre) estate in a valley between Vence and Saint-Paul-de-Vence, the NALL Art Association offers artistic training for college students and provides a cultural life through exhibitions and conferences.

Leslie Hunter

Hunter traveled again to the South of France on a number of occasions between 1927 and 1929, and based himself at Saint-Paul-de-Vence.

Liuva I

When that monarch attempted to assassinate him, Pronimius then fled back to Gaul, and eventually made his way to the court of the Frankish king Childebert, who then appointed Pronimius bishop of Vence.

René Schickele

He died of heart failure in Vence a few months before the invasion of the German army .

Vence Cathedral

Vence Cathedral (Cathédrale de la Nativité-de-Marie de Vence) is a Roman Catholic church and former cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Vence.

Ville Jais Nielsen

In 1949, she and her husband spent some time in Vence in the south of France where she painted some of her finest works.

William Chawner

William Chawner (born February 1848 at Macclesfield, Cheshire, died 29 March 1911, at Vence, Alpes Maritimes) was an educational reformer and the first layman to be appointed as Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.


Jean Gaspard de Vence

Jean Gaspard de Vence (6 April 1747 – 12 March 1808) was a French privateer, admiral and Maritime Prefect of Toulon.

Stéphane Diagana

On 21 Jan 2011, Diagana was seriously injured in road accident while he was cycling along a road of the Col de Vence in the department of Alpes-Maritimes in southeast France.