Every year, from 2014 to 2018, the Archives organized a major event to trace the key moments experienced in Nice during a conflict that shook the world.
After the outbreak of war in Nice in 1914, visitors will have the opportunity to delve back into history with the exhibition “Nice 1915: Italy Enters the War” and discover all those Italians who built Belle Époque Nice and served during the First World War, under the uniform of the Kingdom of Italy or that of the French Republic.
The exhibition highlights the political and military events, often little known on this side of the Alps, that marked those war years. It also recalls Nice’s Sardinian past before 1860 and gives prominence to the daily life of this community in our neighborhoods, from Saint-Roch to Saint-Isidore: cigar makers, nannies, farm workers, marble workers, carpenters, maîtres d’hôtel… at work, in sports societies, at the church, or at the theater…
This exhibition, proposed on the occasion of the city of Nice’s commemoration of the Centenary of the First World War, received the “Centenary” label and, as such, is included in the official national program of Centenary commemorations.
Two conferences will be part of the exhibition:
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, at 3 PM
Conference by Simonetta Tombaccini Villefranque, head of the Italian archives at the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes: “A Look at Italians in Nice from the Restoration to the Annexation (1814-1860)”
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, at 3 PM
Conference by Yvan Gastaut, historian and lecturer at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis: “The Italian Presence in Nice (1880 to 1930)”
