Vence

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Commune of Vence
Location
Longitude 07° 06' 51" E
Latitude 43° 43' 25" N
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 Pierre Marchou
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude 40 m–1,033 m
(avg. 325 m)
Land area¹ 39.230 km²
Population²
(1999)		 (Vençois) 16,982
 - Density (1999) 432/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 06157/ 06140
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).
France

Vence is a small French town and commune set in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes département, between Nice and Antibes.

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[edit] Miscellanea

It is famous as a home for artists, sculptors and painters.

D. H. Lawrence died here in March 1930. His remains were later exhumed and taken to a ranch in New Mexico.

There is a small chapel, Chapelle du Saint-Marie du Rosaire (1948, completed in 1951), decorated with stained glass and other fittings by Henri Matisse.

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

[edit] Famous residents

[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

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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