On August 28, 1944, the day of the Liberation of Nice, 32 residents of Nice fell under enemy fire and 280 were wounded in fierce street fighting.
Memory Circuit Route
8:00 am – Fortuné Barralis, Roger Boyer, Lucien Chervin, Auguste Gouirand, Jean-Marc Ballestra – 2 boulevard de Cessole
8:15 am – Aristakes Arsomanian, Jean Autheman, Raymond Carmine – Level crossing (War Memorial)
8:25 am – Alphonse Cornil – 130 boulevard Gambetta (level crossing)
8:35 am – Auguste Bogniot – Place de Gaulle – Raiberti corner
8:50 am – Antoine Codaccioni – SNCF Station Nice Ville – avenue Thiers
9:15 am – Basile Rossi – Square Macagno, avenue Edouard Herriot
9:30 am – Roger Simon – Garden, intersection of avenue de la Californie / avenue Saint Augustin
9:40 am – Antoine Souchon – Avenue Charles Lindbergh (Carras, a stone’s throw from Lycée Paul Augier)
10:15 am – Venance Cantergiani – 231 avenue Sainte Marguerite
10:30 am – Michel Ravera – Caucade War Memorial, Square des Plateaux Fleuris, avenue Sainte Marguerite
10:50 am – Unveiling of the new plaque: Marius Fantino – 24 Voie Romaine
11:05 am – Sauveur Bernardo – SNCF Bridge, boulevard Armée des Alpes
11:15 am – Raymond Albin – Place Arson – Scaliéro/Auguste Gal corner
11:25 am – Unveiling of the new plaque: Antoine François Suarez – Garden, 99 rue de Roquebillière
11:35 am – Antoine Genouillac – 42 avenue de la République
12:00 pm – Vincent Boscarolo, Place Garibaldi / Jean Jaurès
12:10 pm – Paul Vallaghé, 9 Place Garibaldi
12:25 pm – Eugène Alentchenko, 2 rue Défly
12:35 pm – Jean Gironne, 8 rue Désiré Niel
12:45 pm – Verdun Vial, Descente Crotti, stairs
1:00 pm – Jean Morales, Jean-Marc Bobichon, Jean Badino, Auguste Arnaudo, Place du Palais / rue de la Préfecture
1:25 pm – Joseph Giuge, Jean Gordolon, Rue Saint-François-de-Paule, City Hall facade
1:30 pm – Commemorative plaque City Hall of Nice, 5 rue de l’hôtel de Ville
Throughout this Memory Circuit organized in Nice around plaques bearing the names of these heroic men, a booklet of their biographies will be distributed for free.
Produced by Michel Goury for the City of Nice, this booklet presents the identity of each resistant (identity sheet with copies of documents from the era). It allows extending this commemorative journey beyond the ceremony.
This year, children from the leisure centers of the City of Nice will participate in this 73rd anniversary and will sing the Marseillaise and the Chant des Partisans during the unveiling of the two new plaques and at the end of the circuit, during the tribute at the main City Hall.
