Beaulieu-sur-Mer

Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a common French, located in the department of the the Alpes-Maritimes and the area Provence-Alp-Coast of Azure. Its inhabitants is the Berlugans .

Geography

Beaulieu-sur-Mer is on the Riviera, between Nice and Monaco, at the edge of the Mediterranean on the road of the seaside. The city is located at the east of the Cape Ferrat. It is next to the agglomerations of Villefranche-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cape-Ferrat and Èze. Beaulieu-sur-Mer administratively formed part of the commune of Villefranche-sur-Mer until in 1891.

History

The territory of Beaulieu-sur-Mer is inhabited since the Préhistoire. A cave located in the district of Small Africa (destroyed today) delivered traces of occupation of the Paléolithique at the end of XIXe S. Of work to the site of the stores Giaume and Empress Hotel, the center town, allowed the setting the day of ceramics of the Neolithic at the same time Johston-Washing, eminent British vulcanologist being installed in the area.

One does not know a site of the age of iron on the territory of the commune, but of important traces of occupation of Roman epoch were discovered in the sector of the station and on the seaside, around the vault Notre-Dame d' Olivo or were put at the day more than one hundred of ancient burials to XIXe S. these last allow to think that an important ancient lane skirted the seaside to the height of Beaulieu. During construction of the parish church and destruction of the coastal battery, with a few meters of the vault Notre-Dame d' Olivo, Johston-Washing undertook excavations and put at the day an important ancient ceramics dump ranging between the end of Ier S. a. J. - C. and the Life S. a. J. - C. They seem to indicate the presence of a relatively important harbor station to Beaulieu during Antiquity. Its excavations in the district of the station enabled him to observe the remainders of rich person habitats of Roman epoch, who seem to belong to a small littoral agglomeration.

In the years 1950, colonel Cheneveau, president of the IPAAM, undertook excavations in the small garden contiguous to the Notre-Dame vault and put at the day a necropolis late Antiquité and Top Moyen-âge which, as opposed to what known as the local tradition, seems to show that the littoral is not abandoned at that time.

It is at the 19th century that Beaulieu-sur-Mer, connected to Nice by the road and the Railroad, becomes a famous vacation resort. Many crowned heads and other celebrities affectionnent this winter station particularly. The emperor Guillaume II of Germany, the king Léopold II of Belgium, the Impératrice Eugenie as well as industrial rich person (Gordon Bennett, Isaac Singer) there remain regularly.

The First World War mark a crushing argument, but the tourist vocation of Beaulieu-sur-Mer east from now on established.

Administration

|- | align=right| 1891 || 1891 || Mr. Hippolyte Marinoni ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1891 || 1900 || Mr. François de May ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1900 || 1904 || Mr. Eugene Club ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1904 || 1911 || Mr. Jean Bailet ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1911 || 1919 || Mr. Albert Léglise ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1919 || 1925 || Mr. Pascal Clais ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1925|| 1927 || Mr. Albert Dubarry ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1928 || 1940 || Mr. François de May ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1940|| 1944 || Mr. Antonin Liberos ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1944|| 1947 || Mr. Paul Dubech ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1947|| 1959 || Mr. François de May ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1959|| 1989 || Mr. Fernand Dunan ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 1989|| 2001 || Mr. Christian Scolari ||align=" center" | || |- | align=right| 2001|| || Mr. Red-headed Roger ||align=" center" | DVD ||

Demography

Places and monuments

Villa Kérylos: built between 1902 with 1908 on a rock headland overhanging the the Mediterranean, on the road of the seaside, the Villa Kérylos is a dwelling built and furnished on the model with the villas with the ancient Greece with the IIe century and Ier century before Jesus-Christ. Property of the expert of the hellenistic time Theodore Reinach (1860 - 1928), the villa is bequeathed to the Institut of France in 1928. It today is classified historic building and is opened to the visitors.

Economy

Personalities related to the commune

Louis Duck, painter and contemporary sculptor born in Beaulieu-sur-Mer in 1943.

See too

Road of the seaside
Common of the Alpes-Maritimes

External bonds

the site of the Tourist bureau of Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Gallery Photographs on Beaulieu-sur-Mer
Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the site of the national geographical Institute
Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the site of INSEE
Beaulieu-sur-Mer on the site of Quid
Localization of Beaulieu-sur-Mer on a chart of France and communes bordering
Site on the Villa Kerylos
the Kerylos villa on the site of the Institute of France
Tournament ITF of Tennis of Beaulieu on Sea

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