Nice is probably the most British city in France.
The idea may seem strange, so much our city is associated with the Latin and Mediterranean landscape, the sun, the blue sky.
But on closer inspection, of course, another cliché emerges, one that associates one of our most beautiful arteries with the memory of the “English”.
However, the sadness that gripped the people of Nice at the news of the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, could not be explained if there had been many other things.
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Nice and the United Kingdom as a whole, i.e. Nice and the English, Scots, Welsh, Irish, even Nice and the entire British Empire, i.e. also the India, South and East Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ocean, it is a special relationship, secular, unique, to tell the truth, in France.
Unique, of course, because Nice has only been French since 1860, and therefore does not have, in its historical DNA, the long tradition of love-hate that has separated
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