What is truly the personality of this city—French yet with an Italian culture—where Max Gallo, Joseph Kessel, and Romain Gary grew up, in the shadow of Giuseppe Garibaldi’s passage?
Those who remember—and how could one forget—the terrible image of the night of July 14, 2016, must absolutely read these pages. They restore to Nice all the flavors familiar to those who love it: its gastronomy, its carnival, its politico-financial adventures, its unique climate, full of sunshine and the blue of the sea to which this city has always reached out.
To talk about Nice, one needed an author who knows it from the inside. A Niçois capable of looking at his city differently, with the indulgence and love of the children who grew up here. Because to understand a city, you must first know its joys and its sorrows.
Writer and tireless globetrotter, Patrice Montagu-Williams, the great-nephew of Jean Médecin, has always kept the city of his childhood close to his heart.
His narrative of Nice is followed by interviews with André Giordan (historian), Alex Benvenuto (writer and musician), and Patrick Mottard (lawyer and writer).
