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Celebrities in Cannes

Celebrities in Cannes: the light of the Cote d'Azur extends as far as Cannes and this is what attracted some  personalities. Celebrities are also seduced by the beauty of the municipality as well as its predisposition to strategic places like its hills, its ideal location in the shipping route linking Italy, Provence and Spain.The influence of the city is largely due to Lord Brougham from the nineteenth century, which earned him notoriety among the London aristocrats. Charles Ginner, an official painter of the British government is, for example, a native, just like Anna Kavan, an English writer.If the Rothschild family had a residence at the former villa Marie Thérèse which became Médiathèque Jean de Noailles, the Russians also left traces of their passage as for example  the residences of resorts in California. Michel Nicolaevich of Russia, for example, was an aristocrat who eventually died in the city.However, it is not only the history of Cannes that is connected with famous personalities, stars who illuminate in sporting and art, or journalists have lived there. Picasso is the most marked icon. He spent six years admiring the friendliness and splendor of the landscape in Cannes. His home is still there, from where he painted the famous painting The Bay of Cannes.Moreover, in the 1920s, Liane de Pougy, this dancer was also conquered by Cannes. Its villa baptized Primavera is currently classified architectural heritage. Otherwise, in a completely different field, the internationally renowned footballer Zinedine-Zidane, he carried high the team of Cannes until 1992.Still in this world of the ball, some renown in this matter are native like Robert Domergue, Paul Altavelle, Jean-Pierre Truqui, Michel Dussuyer, Bernard Casoni or Yves Bertucci among many others but especially Sarah Bouhaddi, a goalkeeper who plays in the Olympique Lyonnais and in France.In a completely different world, since the city is also known as the capital of cinema, some actors and actresses are native. There are Gérard Philipe, Victor Merenda, Jean Sobieski, Frank Neel, Yann Colette and Gisèle Pascal.