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Vence
	Commune of Vence
	Location
	; Vence
Administration
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-Maritimes
Arrondissement	Grasse
Canton	Vence
Intercommunality	Communauté d'agglomération de Nice-Côte d'Azur
Mayor	Christian Iacono; (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	40–1,033 m (130–3,400 ft); (avg. 325 m/1,070 ft)
Land area1	39,230 km2 (15,150 sq mi)
Population2	16,982 (1999)
- Density	0 /km2 (0 /sq mi)
	Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	06157/ 06140
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
	2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 43°43′25″N 7°06′51″E / 43.7236111111°N 7.11416666667°E / 43.7236111111; 7.11416666667

Vence is a commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in south-eastern France between Nice and Antibes.

[edit] Miscellany

Vence is famous for being home to artists, sculptors and painters. D. H. Lawrence died in Vence, March 1930. His remains were later exhumed and taken to a ranch in New Mexico.

The town has a small chapel, up above the Cité Historique Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse.

Within the historic village, a medieval walled village, there is a chapel that has a mosaic by Chagall on an outside wall, dated 1911.

There is a section of the old Roman road still in the village, rue de la Coste, and it can be walked on.

Vence is famous for its spring water, which can be collected from numerous fountains throughout the town.

Vence is twinned with the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire.

[edit] Famous residents

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), writer
James Baldwin (writer) died in the near-by St Paul de Vence
Maurice Boitel (b.1919), artist
Henri Calet (1904–1956), writer
Marc Chagall, artist
Émile Delavenay (1901–2003), anglicist
Raoul Dufy, artist
Witold Gombrowicz (1904–1969), writer, died in his home here
Mihály Károlyi (1875-1955), Hungarian leader
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), artist
Jacques (artist) and Gwen Raverat (artist and writer)
Ida Rubinstein, ballerina
Richard and Judy, TV Chat Show ballas

[edit] Ecclesiastical history

The first known Bishop of Vence is Severus, bishop in 439 and perhaps as early as 419.

Among others are: St. Veranus, son of St. Eucherius, Archbishop of Lyon and a monk of Lérins, bishop before 451 and at least until 465; St. Lambert, first a Benedictine monk (died 1154); Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1505-11).

Antoine Godeau, Bishop of Grasse, was named Bishop of Vence in 1638; the Holy See wished to unite the two dioceses. Meeting with opposition from the chapter and the clergy of Vence Godeau left Grasse in 1653, to remain Bishop of Vence, which see he held until 1672.

The diocese of Nice now unites the three former Dioceses of Nice, Grasse and Vence.

[Vence Cathedral:[1],[2]

[edit] Education

[edit] Nursery schools

École Maternelle lei bigaradie
École Maternelle du Signadour
École Maternelle de l'ouest

[edit] Primary schools

École primaire du Suve
École primaire Saint-Michel
École primaire Toreille
École primaire Chagall

[edit] Grammar school

Collège La Sine

[edit] High school

Lycée Henri Matisse.

[edit] Sources and external links

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This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
French language Wikipedia has an article about Henri Calet.
French language Wikipedia has an article about Émile Delavenay.

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